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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

In Powerful Teaching , the authors focus on the potential of: Retrieval practice – “pulling information out of students’ heads (e.g., quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g., These educational practices can be powerful tools for information retrieval. lectures)” (p.

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded. More than one in four adjuncts earn below the federal poverty level for a family of four, another new report, from the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, finds.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

Well, Sam, thank you—if anybody want to get any more information about Putnam County Schools, where can they go? We're serving about 1,000 to 1,200 students per nine-week period in this program, and that's hitting about 3 to 4,000 classes a year. We never really ever thought we would get to that.

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The journey to student-centered learning

Neo LMS

And we keep wondering about the high rates of dropout students. And when their specific learning needs are met, the percentage of underachievers and dropouts shrinks, engagement rates and the likability of going to school go up, as well as student performance. Kids don’t learn the same.

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5 Books for Families Who Are Rethinking School

The Innovative Educator

They are discovering a lot of what their children are doing is having information fed to them that they could have easily learned by watching YouTube videos. It is likely equally hard for their children to sit all day being fed information in class too. They find it hard for their children to sit all day working on screens.

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VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

eSchool News

Dr. Johnson currently serves as the Executive Officer for Student Services at Springfield Public Schools, where she oversees school counseling and social work services, dropout prevention and graduation improvement strategies, and college access and success initiatives. Johnson to its board of directors.

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