The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) Defining the obstacles – as this study does – is a good first step. Teacher diversity statistics in 2020-21.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 3, 2019

Take, for example, smoking. Childhood traumatic stress from violence , abuse , corporal punishment and neglect contribute to educational outcomes such as excessive absenteeism, school dropout and school performance. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Related: Leading by example: Black male teachers make students ‘feel proud’. Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Study after study, researcher after researcher, finds the same few things about retention: No long-term achievement gains. Significantly higher dropout rates. For example, one study showed that 65% to 90% of overage children in grade 9 do not persist to graduation. Back in January 2014, I noted that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But the house was too chaotic to focus on studies, and without support, Johnson dropped out. For example, at first a participant might pay little or nothing for their living space, then housing costs incrementally increase. Other times, as in Johnson’s case, the organization offers a rental subsidy. Another fix is dorms. But only 4.8

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. Tyler’s story is a classic example of how higher education has become a blind spot in our society. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 How would she afford it?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. Vest plans to complete a study this summer of five recovery programs, including Minneapolis College’s. The schools are pursuing their goals of serving more students, but the additional supports bring higher costs.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Internship and work-study programs have a long history and are common at many institutions. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 billion a year in forgone tuition revenue, one study found.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” For example, Oakland Community College, in Michigan, has identified 900 students who in the last six years earned a degree but never had it posted to their records. Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2016

It’s not just a matter of their grades, although high school dropouts are much more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. New studies are coming out that show the quality of the teacher does have an impact on student achievement. Teachers set an example for their students. Teachers Are in a Position of Trust.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Then came several new studies concluding that low-income students at U.S. So I decided to take a close look at a handful of recent studies measuring online against face-to-face at U.S. community colleges may not be as well served online as their residential peers. Is online the educational and economic game changer I thought it was?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. They really don’t even tell you to study for it,” Flores said. “We It’s not a thing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Representatives of the police department’s forensics lab are contributing to a lesson, for example. Researchers from the University of San Diego have started a three-year, longitudinal study of the impact of the World of Work program. Related: Using vocational education to teach academic courses. This helps kids find their why.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. This is a great way to focus material on what your class is studying. This was an authentic example for students of on-the-fly problem-solving. Add a list of questions you’d like the expert to address.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One example is Seattle’s Teen Link , a free phone line established in the 1990s that has since expanded to online chat and text messaging. The pilot program trains 11th and 12th grade students to do basic interventions — helping with schoolwork planning and navigating new social dynamics — to reduce the risk of dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. That’s the worst.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY). The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1 It turns into a self-sustaining way of dealing with this debt,” Thompson said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Davenport University graduates who can’t find jobs in their fields of study within six months get up to 48 additional credit hours free.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Take, for example, the growing interest in Attendance Works’ services. Reading and math skills are hindered for students who are chronically absent as early as kindergarten.

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MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

Researchers have studied disparities in areas such as test scores and discipline rates to identify ways to close the gap. It’s an update to a study NPR reported on in 2017 that found that black students who had just one black teacher could help them stay in school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Go to the University of Maine for the in-state cost of UMass,” said the ones in Massachusetts, for example. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s gotten less selective, for example, accepting 92 percent of applicants. People want that.”. And they notice when it happens.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. In 1980 , for example, in-state tuition was $1,206. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 There is big tension over purpose and identity.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Those are some of the examples educators shared with us on this week’s podcast. Abigail Joseph: When I was at my previous school, every year the seventh- and eighth-grade students studied either the Silk Road or the World's Fair. There’s something to learn for teachers at all ages. What surprised me the most were the end products.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

The test reveals in-context areas of social studies and science in reading passages. I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. Relevant words in context-students will see vocabulary words used in real life (editing or reading a passage-not rote memorization).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. Renick came to Georgia State as a religious studies professor in the 1980s.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A program with intensive advising similar to the Rivet School’s, called Duet, in Boston, resulted in graduation rates that were double the state average , with no racial disparities, while cutting the cost of college in half, a Harvard study found. Duet students earn degrees online from Southern New Hampshire State University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Students study over lunch at St. High cost of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. There is no question in the research in the field,” said Micere Keels, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who studies school discipline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Early returns suggest receiving those rewards along the way is helping the so far limited number of people who have already tried microcredential programs — at edX, for example, they comprise about a tenth of all enrollment —climb more quickly. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples. For example, if people learn that their neighbors are spending less on energy, they are likely to reduce their energy use. This information provides insight into the reasons (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. One student is studying surface area and three-digit multiplication.

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