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. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dallas’ changes are part of a wider movement away from exclusionary discipline due in part to its disproportionate impact on some groups of students, including Native American students and students with disabilities along with Black students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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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 Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. She noted that she learned public speaking from a course during college, but that her elementary-school aged daughter is already able to speak confidently in front of groups. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Freshman calculus students at the University of Texas at Austin work together in small groups to master calculus concepts they will need later in college and their careers. An aspiring mechanical engineer, Hamscho failed his first college calculus exam before he formed a study group. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. One of the criticisms that’s been aimed at the use of technology in schools, however, is that it is being used solely to prepare users to enter the tech workforce by corralling them into STEM-related subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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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. Behind the scenes, a researcher randomly assigned them to groups with different gender ratios. Especially don’t put them into a group where they are the only woman,” said Shan. That’s the worst.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

This superintendent and board have relinquished their responsibility to the charter management groups, who operate schools like businesses,” Ivory said. Many charter groups came in wanting to change the culture of the schools they took over. He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

But then we know that there are those who continue to have difficulties, and those difficulties really stem into a variety of areas. You can think about these concentric circles kind of stemming out from the site. But then there's the other group for whom it's really a reminder of what happened to somebody that they love.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The program is growing, and serves a diverse group of students. The program is so successful that 12 states have implemented or are in the process of implementing an I-BEST model at one or more education institutions. I-BEST enrollment in the state has increased by more than 20 percent the past five years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma. He was among the first group of McDowell County, West Virginia, high school students to receive a home visit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. But he still struggled.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. And he hopes they stay in the area and help revitalize it, stemming the tide of transience and instability. A group of students suddenly rushes the hallways. Spencer, the former superintendent, also points to a decline in teen pregnancies. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Black, Latino and Indigenous groups are often left out. There are gifted dropouts. The National Association for Gifted Children defines its target group as kids whose “ability is significantly above the norm for their age.” In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. At first, he found that students wiggled around and got distracted.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Fourth-graders at P.S. 67 often work in groups. The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. And each school has been paired with a community group “partner” to help serve various needs. Photo: Tal Bar-Zemer.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here. She''s put together a list of the best artiles on Classroom Management, Reading and Language Arts, STEM, History and Social Studies, and more. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Overseen by a long-term substitute teacher, the group of eight children, who are mostly nonverbal and physically and intellectually disabled, watched “Grease,” and a drawer-full of other well-worn VHS tapes, often from the first bell to the last. It’s basically a warm body in the room, just to make sure students are supervised.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

This support is available to Mayes because she’s part of a select group of Western Michigan students known as the Seita Scholars. Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. We have to think big picture,” Norris stressed to the group, “before we get down to details like how much lab time to offer. Juarez reflects a vision of what poor kids of color can do and be.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

NEW YORK – A few days after headlines exploded about yet another university president suspending Greek life activities after yet another hazing death, a group of college presidents sat around a dinner table expressing concern about bad behavior at fraternities. Photo: AP Photo/Joseph Reedy. Fraternities foster a sense of belonging.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” ” Via The Intercept : “Conservative Provocateur James O’Keefe ’s Group Hit With Restraining Order, Blocking Latest Sting.” She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.)

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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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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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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.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” million in funding from Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Four Rivers Group, Ashton Kutcher, LVMH, Xavier Niel, Bill Gates, Benchmark, and Founders Fund.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” (National) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” 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. ” The Business of Student Loans. .”

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