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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

Talent Development Secondary, a nonprofit that grew out of a Johns Hopkins University study on dropout rates, is the data-driven arm of the Diplomas Now model; it identifies kids at risk of dropping out and establishes a schoolwide process of intervention and support services to keep them on track to graduate.

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How is STEM Education Shaping the Future of our Science Classes?

EdNews Daily

As high school dropout rates increase and the lack of motivation for students to learn science grows, the U.S. In particular, Hispanics and Latinos are one group in urban schools that lack the support for STEM education. They can also help young people prevent the loss of future career opportunities.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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Intent vs. Impact

The Principal of Change

Speaking to a group of principals, one of the participants, thanked me for my time, and gave a very elegant “call-to-action” to the group. It was not simply discussing what I talked about, but what they needed to do to move forward. ” It jolted me.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

Edsurge

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages. SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear.