The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

These urban college markets, such as San Diego, may diverge from their state’s or region’s trends. Meanwhile, less selective institutions are not as likely to buck the powerful demographic trend of declining birthrates. In the red-colored states, the drop in students will exceed 15%. Grawe, Carleton College.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There exists another example of diversity that is often overlooked, but which is finally gaining more visibility and attention in higher education and in various industry sectors: neurodiversity. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem.

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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. Examples abound of college graduates who work in retail stores and as receptionists.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

In California, for example, Latinos make up 36 percent of the adult population, but only 18 percent of Latino Californians hold a college degree. What makes the low Latino college degree figures striking is that the trends differ from the graduation data that colleges report. In some states, the college attainment gap is much larger.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. EAB compiles its customer data to report on national trends in college completion. A growing trend.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Educators have also adjusted to teaching online, and this trend is here to stay even if most schools have reopened their doors. Lower dropout rates. On a similar note, offering each student the tailored content they need to complete classes and pass exams can reduce dropout rates. Read more: 5 Must-have LMS reports for schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

But this fall has brought a reversal of the trend. Finding out that frustrating behavior is developmentally appropriate changes the framing for teachers, helping them step back and craft lessons around problem-solving, for example, instead of disciplining a child for making irrational or damaging decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. High cost of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Just as an example, in its long-term trend assessment, NAEP reports on results for 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds, but in the national assessment reported this week it focuses on grades 4, 8, and 12. On the long-term trend assessment, NAEP scores for 17-year olds increased in both reading and math between 1971 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The effort in Greenville is part of a growing national trend in which school districts partner with local industries to develop curriculum and expose students to specialized careers at a young age. But the approach has taken hold in totally different business landscapes, too. Whittenberg to Dr. Phinnize J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset. That reverses the trend that we’ve been trying to do for 20 years in higher education.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Subscribe today! And all too often, working to pay for school won’t actually help low-income students get a degree or avoid debt.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Even the latest edtech trends are still preparing students for a concept of work and life that’s quickly becoming outdated, he says. He points to the learning management system as an example. From adaptive learning to adaptive learners Siemens worries that current education systems aren’t adjusting to this new reality.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 But there may not be enough donors to keep all of these colleges afloat, if current trends hold true. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing. It’s saved more than $345,000 annually by streamlining some administrative tasks.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

By engaging in the local community through her research, she proposed a local way to address the problem of Latino dropout rates at her school, asking that the school offer translation support for parents to talk with teachers at the beginning of each semester to check in on a student’s progress.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

He called the virus “something of a moment of judgment for higher education, a shock that will accelerate [negative] trends that are already underway,” as well as one that could finally open the door for systemic policy change. The answer is a little of both, Carnevale explained. In the elite schools there will be growth,” he predicts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. Schools might use data to justify enrolling more affluent students and fewer poor students, for example, because people from poorer families tend to face more challenges that make them less likely to graduate on time.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student. An impulse to discipline was meant to give way to an impulse to listen and understand.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools (TPS), for example, is using the cloud to identify students needing more help. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. Code.org is another great example; it saves $1.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”. Related: Why are low-income students not showing up to college, even though they have been accepted?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. Tennessee is not the only place experiencing this trend. College skepticism , by the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

These trends paint a challenging picture for young adults. Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, for example, has a strong institutional commitment to supporting student mental health. Here’s why: Over 40 percent of college students experience depression. Over a third experience anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. For now, however, Reinoehl said, in much of the rest of higher education, there remains “a trend to charge more fees, not fewer.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s how overwhelmingly the women in the bar outnumber the men, a visible manifestation of a momentous trend at whose leading edge is Iceland. But policymakers are worried about this trend.”. The trend also complicates efforts to fill jobs that require a college education. But policymakers are worried about this trend.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The trend has been propelled by some public universities’ attempts to compensate for budget cuts by luring higher-income and out-of-state students with newer (and more expensive) housing, and by a separate, little-noticed phenomenon of pricey off-campus student apartments being built by private real estate-investment companies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Annisha Thomas is a single mother attending Nashville State Community College via the Tennessee Reconnect Program at the age of 35 to set an example for her children, Kayden, 4 and Kaylee, 7. It’s a worrisome trend. “If it wasn’t for the goodness of my teachers, I would be failing right now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Schools that enroll predominantly low-income students can argue, for example, that their job placement or graduation rates show they’re doing an adequate job of serving this population. How many of the 15 schools will ultimately face consequences remains to be seen. We haven’t done that.”. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Nursing programs, for example, have long waiting lists because of a lack of instructors and capacity. Some are working to reverse these trends by changing their cultures. grade-point average.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Only 53 percent of women in their 20s who gave birth in their teens hold a traditional high school diploma, compared to 90 percent of women who didn’t, according to Child Trends , a research organization focused on young people. The results for Hispanic women — 100 percent of Lincoln Park’s population is Latina — are worse.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” I’m including this news here because 1) WeWork is making a number of education plays (acquiring bootcamps, launching a private K–12 school, for example) and 2) WeWork’s founder is Gwenyth Paltrow’s cousin (small world!), which makes these sorts of policy moves chuckle-worthy (to me, at least).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. The California Virtual Academies was forced to refund some $2 million to the state’s Department of Education for improperly used funds this year, for example.

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