The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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Dropout Survey Study Report 123

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 139

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On the other hand, said Kieffer, faculty need to “look at the modern world and figure out how to adapt to that.”. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates.

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Case Study Study Dropout Education 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We Still, she added, there were “just so many stories of kids using their cellphones to complete assignments, to research, or having to figure out how to get to public libraries in order to access devices.”.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 108

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

According to the 2021 Washington state Healthy Youth Survey, about 13 percent of the state’s eighth graders said they don’t have an adult to turn to when they feel sad or hopeless. One of the positives of peer-based support is that students who don’t have a trusted adult in their life may be more comfortable asking for help from a peer.

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Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Yet colleges remain focused on recruitment, “which they already know how to do,” said Andrew Nichols, senior director of higher education research at The Education Trust.

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Dropout Report Policies Data 98

MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. MHFA training, referred to as “CPR for the mind,” teaches educators and caretakers how to recognize, understand and respond to signs of psychological distress. She’s also using her new knowledge to teach students how to look out for each other.

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Training Dropout Course Assessment 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” It’s learning how to be an adult.”. Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A

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Assessment Report Dropout System 140

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 142

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 70

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn.

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Training Report Dropout System 77

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? A stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey. “I

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Education Policies System Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Then the admissions counselor showed her something new – MyinTuition , a six-question survey that takes only a few minutes to fill out and predicts with surprising accuracy just how much financial aid a student can anticipate from the college. She loved the place, but not its price tag: $60,000, well beyond her family’s means.

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Dropout Survey Data Smartphone 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

About half of Dallas College’s students are first-generation; a little more than 20 percent are parents; and about 22 percent are adult learners who are at least 25 with a full-time job,according to self-reported responses and data from a fall 2022 survey.

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Outcomes Report Meeting Study 82

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is hard to overstate how much the pandemic has short-circuited the college experience and affected students’ well-being. To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. Questions like, “How do I build community? How do I build meaningful relationships?”

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Training Meeting Report Policies 118

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

I needed advice on how to talk with faculty and how to join a fraternity. According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. There is much more to graduation than what happens in high school.

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Survey Study Report Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 74

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Almost seven in 10 parents said in a survey that they had eliminated colleges from consideration for their children because of the cost. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 85

MindShift

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The researchers analyzed CDC survey data from 1.2 He did a study finding that couples who started an exercise program together had a lower dropout rate than those who started one on their own. How to get started. The study showed that “very simple forms of social support can be beneficial,” he says.

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Exercises Groups Dropout Study 28

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The higher employment rate is likely partially attributable to the fact that former special education students are less likely to be spending that time in college; 21 percent of special education students surveyed were enrolled in college compared to 41 percent of general education students.

Outcomes 91

Outcomes Education Report Survey 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

That seems to match overall results from the National Survey of Children’s Health, which includes a question for each household asking how many students ages 6 through 17 have ever been retained. Then in 2015, the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, allowed states to measure success with more just than test scores.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

One by one, the principals looked at each student’s profile, which included the student’s answers to district-wide survey questions about what worries them about AP classes, what subjects interest them and what adults they trust in the building. But the students were not yet scheduled to take one in the coming fall.

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Data Course Study Meeting 92

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. Other student groups have also conducted surveys to capture students’ experiences.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

While nearly 90 percent of school district leaders say they are investing in social-emotional products, according to one survey , only a small share of the many programs in existence have been rigorously vetted. There’s a massive, clear thing that needs to get fixed,” he said of the emotional needs of students.

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Strategy Training Report Company 78

EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

It is like reading every book there is to learn how to swim, taking a test on swimming and then being thrown into the ocean. They don’t know how to practice teaching – yet –only how to think about educational problems and answer test questions. Schools have become the nation’s emergency room. million trained teachers.

Secondary 130

Secondary Training Survey Dropout 130

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

We have the opportunity to implement problem/project based learning and teach our students how to use web tools and social media to solve real world problems. to help decrease the dropout rate at our high school.” You can include the solution product or leave that open and allow them to decide how to solve the problem.

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Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 332

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

We have the opportunity to implement problem/project based learning and teach our students how to use web tools and social media to solve real world problems. to help decrease the dropout rate at our high school.” You can include the solution product or leave that open and allow them to decide how to solve the problem.

Maker Movement 278

Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 278

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Although roughly two-thirds of student-parents we surveyed did not feel that available child care provided them the time they needed to complete their schoolwork, around three-quarters of them were on financial aid, which suggests that existing financial aid is insufficient to pay for necessary child care to provide time for schoolwork.

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Dropout Outcomes Handbook Survey 74

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In addition to keeping tabs on homework and grades, pod leaders teach students how to manage their time, apply for summer jobs and create goals for life after high school. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

Learning 79

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 79

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As a college readiness coach at low-income high schools in San Diego, I talked to multiple high school refugee students to figure out how to support them, especially as many schools continue to operate remotely. (My Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that.

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Meeting Survey Study Report 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

She previously wanted to specialize in trauma surgery but eventually decided to avoid “the terrible rates of PTSD ” in that field and instead learn how to cut into people’s brains.). I’ve always been obsessed with the brain,” said Jaden. Jaden bristled at the suggestion that she reconsider her early graduation goal. Mott Children’s Hospital.

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Report Survey Meeting Study 114

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Blame it on the long hours, low salaries, increased school violence, lack of training on how to handle disruptive students, insufficient administrative support and the figurative microscope through which the media and publics examine educators and blames them when schools are deemed, “low performing”.

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

In our community’s next webinar, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will share the results from Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, a report from a national survey of over 1500 parents of children ages 2-10. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52