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. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s increasingly clear which group always finds itself on the losing team. ” High school dropout rates, workplace readiness, and inter-generational trends reflect a vicious cycle. According to the American Camp Association, the average day camp costs over $300 a week per child.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Coulson, New NAEP scores extend dismal trend in US Education productivity. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, 2018). billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. 2007 ([link]. Stevens, T. Satwicz, L. Journal of Neuroscience 37, 8549-8558 (2017).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

. “For us, it was surprising just how low the Latino degree attainment numbers are and how significant the gaps are in certain states,” said Andrew Howard Nichols, senior director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, a nonprofit group that conducts research and advocates for low-income students.

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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

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. It wasn’t always this way.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. When they break out into group work, no one talks except him. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. Breakout rooms are even harder to monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates.

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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. The university then provides those students with increased support.

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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

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. But this fall has brought a reversal of the trend.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As a fall semester transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, a startling trend is emerging: Students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, are leaving college at an alarming rate. To stay on track, students should explore emergency aid options and seek out virtual study groups and online counseling.

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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. Post answers. Share resources.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. A third of high school students quit before they finish , more than double the current proportion in the rest of the United States , the U.S.

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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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Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

But the part of her research that was most meaningful was when she asked questions of a focus group of Latino parents whose children attend her high school. As we transition into our third year, there are some trends emerging as to what civic action looks like in a classroom setting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Principal Adrian Montes, top right, and educators from Redland Elementary, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, show a group of migrant students who weren’t logging in for online classes how to access their individual classes and assignments. As of early September, Choudhury said, they had found all but roughly 100 of the missing kids.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The program is growing, and serves a diverse group of students. New approaches to advising aim to reverse that trend At Bellevue College, I-BEST students enrolled in Business 101 meet with instructor Eric Nacke for an adult basic education class on a separate day. Related: Many community college students near earn a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The lessons include more hands-on problem solving and the students often work in small groups. The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. What does it mean to work in a group or get along with others? Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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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.

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MindShift

APRIL 2, 2015

In one project, groups of three or four students were responsible for a written mathematical analysis of their topic, two visual representations of the data, an engaging public service announcement video explaining the data and a list of recommendations for how the issue could be addressed. “The

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.” But part of employers’ inability to fill middle-skills jobs can be attributed to degree inflation.

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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. Other groups, like the local United Way chapter, have also helped out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

They’re even less likely than boys from many racial minority groups to go to college. That’s now the job of people like this student, Jacob Hood, 21, who takes a small group of runners outside to a lighted track beside the noisy A13 carriageway. The root of this problem, in the U.K., It’s taking too long, though,” she quipped.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

As the football and girls’ soccer teams sweated through summer practice on the athletics fields at LaVergne High School, a small group of adult advisers inside shared tales of their own ordeals. It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. LA VERGNE, Tenn. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

And policymakers say some of the same approaches could succeed for other groups that go to college at lower levels than whites for surprisingly similar reasons — including, in the United States, Hispanics, blacks, and native Americans. “A trillion by 2060, based on current trends, a book coauthored by Hobby Center director and former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

They need resources for food and child care, and we are trying to reach out and say we are here,” said Jackson, who has been collaborating with community groups to connect students – including the many who are parents – with technology and other basic needs. It’s a worrisome trend. They are feeling it far worse than other groups.”.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2020

To foster these kinds of outcomes in other cities, Owusu-Kesse enticed Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and former CEO, out of semi-retirement to lead the initiative, which Owusu-Kesse sees as “a national hub” for local groups. These positive trends, Carroll-Scott argues, are the cornerstones of future academic progress.

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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. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Our story on Premier Education Group – which owns one of the schools cited by the department – revealed how the for-profit chain left many of its graduates thousands of dollars in debt. Many of them would not be able to survive if they lost access to loans.”. Related: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students.

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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

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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