The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. A group of colleges has decided to stop holding students captive and allow them to get their lives back on track. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Her aim then was a law degree.

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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. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Deven was part of a group that contributed to the New York City Department of Education’s ground breaking social media guidelines which were the first in the world to be created with students and teachers. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis. Check it out at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Brown said students told his group that since the lockdowns started, their most persistent problems have been lack of internet access, child care and food. Philadelphia, a nonprofit that works to help low-income adult students. “If

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. “The predictive analytics revolution” – EDUCAUSE ECAR Working Group Paper. Other systems: provide multiple types of information.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

At community colleges, for instance, “A lot of people actually have maybe 75, 80 credits and could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee,” said Moses. Lots of these trivial things that occur.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. But after about half-an-hour, the lecture stops and Dobrin presents his students with a menu of options. “Is Dobrin asks.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Though Carver’s student body had been nearly 100 percent African American for years, the school — like its sister schools in the Collegiate Academies charter-management organization — was now starting to enroll its first groups of immigrants. The intersection of immigration law and education is a murky area that few groups fully understand.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

He was among the first group of McDowell County, West Virginia, high school students to receive a home visit. Ensconced in the campus library, Jordan credits the home visits — and the bond that developed between him, his teacher and his family as a result of them — for where he is today. He’s the first one.”.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. The data provided allows teachers to group students intentionally for maximized learning opportunities. Desmos graphing calculator ? OverDrive ? PicCollage ?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios. Some of the ones in the CSU library feel dashed off, says one professor who went looking for inspiration there. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. Portfolios have their drawbacks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here. National Library Week. How does your library manage digital collections?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Individuals can help most, advocates say, by making financial donations to groups that are aiding students in need.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

So there’s a great degree of confidence that the data the ABA has is accurate,” said Mike Spivey, founder of the Spivey Consulting Group, which works with both prospective applicants and law school admissions offices. Langdell Hall library at Harvard Law School. The Yale University campus. After withdrawing from the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Partner Announcements Amazing People Institute : Amazing People Library launch a digital story collection unlike any other.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Related: ‘We want a kid you don’t have any idea what to do with’.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. The group provides paid fellowships for students to spend a semester lobbying politicians on college costs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

“We are expected to fail,” said Inoa, discussing widely held perceptions of poor black and Latino young men, while gesturing towards Dartmouth’s iconic symbols of privilege: white brick buildings with black shutters, sweeping lawns and well-stocked libraries. “We We are not supposed to be here.”. It just makes me more hungry and ambitious.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Wilda Rosario’s support groups for immigrant students at Patchogue-Medford High School usually start out with lots of laughter. But it doesn’t take too long for conversations to turn serious with this group of kids, most of them children seeking asylum from violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. “I PATCHOGUE, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The school stocks several Spanish titles in the library, and Woodson encouraged the children to keep up their Spanish. On a cold winter morning, they worked in groups, listing factors that help them do well. Woodson says these small efforts help all students see there’s no language hierarchy. Coping skills promote healing.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” ” More on HR changes in the sports section above.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The Harvard Library Innovation Lab on link rot : “A Million Squandered: The ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ as a Decaying Digital Artifact.” . “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Nor in home foster care or licensed group homes. Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates. Johnson is the mother of three girls.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). million in funding from Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Four Rivers Group, Ashton Kutcher, LVMH, Xavier Niel, Bill Gates, Benchmark, and Founders Fund. ” More via The New York Times. billion total.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Via The Telegraph : “ Saudi Arabia accidentally prints textbook showing Yoda sitting next to the king.”

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post. How much can you afford?

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Via NPR : “The Return Of Bilingual Education In California ? .”

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