Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The Double-Dipping Problem.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. The Call for Proposals will open May 1st , immediately following the Library 2.015 Spring Summit. Did we mention it was LIVE?

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Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” Unpaid parking tickets, library fines and graduation fees can result in transcript holds that block students from officially getting their credentials or transferring to other institutions.

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Policies Dropout Analysis Course 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Her aim then was a law degree.

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Company Training Industry Dropout 137

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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Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library. The organization also has established partnerships with local businesses and other community groups.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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Libraries Report Advocacy Policies 99

The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

He took over an out-of-date, disorganized library, with dusty old books and turned it into a modern, automated library created with a mission to support student learning in ways aligned to their interests, strengths, and talents. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis.

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Social Media Dropout Guidelines Libraries 43

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices.

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

A recent study — part of a series of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — shows that having just one black teacher not only lowers black students’ high school dropout rates and increases their desire to go to college, but also can make them more likely to enroll in college.

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Dropout Elementary Study Analysis 28

EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400. Therefore, they moved to Las Vegas and purchased a budget motel.

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Meeting Strategy Course Dropout 185

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. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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Dropout Trends Data Study 51

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. The Rivet School itself consists of an office big enough for four desks, a minifridge and some bookshelves.

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Report Dropout System Company 116

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.), We reach further back in history here, following the track of DeMillo’s previous book Abelard To Apple. What do you make of it?

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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Their classroom libraries stock books by Isabel Allende and other Latin American literary giants. “In percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent. Some of Muniz’s initial cohort transferred to other schools or moved out of the district.).

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. We piecemealed as much as we could in March and April 2020,” she said. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. It’s why a fire in the library tarnishes a school’s reputation in the minds of parents, sometimes for years. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. But it left an impression. “My

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. He preferred to work at night when it was quiet, and the distractions of the day didn’t pull at his mind. But last week, with the campus closed due to the coronavirus, his refuge and the resources that came with it were suddenly gone.

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Study Survey Course Company 145

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” And having small groups of teachers sharing the same students also paid academic dividends.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

At community colleges, for instance, “A lot of people actually have maybe 75, 80 credits and could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee,” said Moses. Lots of these trivial things that occur.”.

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Kaplan Dropout Libraries System 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Ensconced in the campus library, Jordan credits the home visits — and the bond that developed between him, his teacher and his family as a result of them — for where he is today. He’s the first one.”. He believes more students could benefit from teachers reaching out because McDowell students aren’t likely to ask for support.

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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The library is old — and it kind of stinks. Some places are really hot, like, rooms that can’t turn off the heat. Other rooms you can’t turn it on. The technology, the computers, they’re probably more than 12 years old. Since I don’t have the opportunity to go to another school, I have no choice. What makes your school unique?

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Report Libraries Meeting System 46

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” The space now serves as one of the school’s primary gathering spaces, a gallery for student art and a technology hub.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School. In December, the school hired a new staffer, charged with tracking down chronically absent students (those with more than 10 absences), in an effort to get them engaged and back on the rolls before they formally drop out.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. When she walked in Carver’s doors, she knew one English sentence: “Hello, I’m Monica.”

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. For senior Allison Lopez, those additional supports meant she could take her time on concepts that were especially difficult, like a unit in biology class on the endocrine system. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 85

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Your boss is more likely to be flexible about your schedule, you’ll have more time to go to the library to study or get homework done and you won’t have to actually leave the campus. And it will look good on your resume, too. Work on campus. No long commutes! Don’t forget about yourself.

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Study Report Libraries System 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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Dropout Libraries Study Report 0

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something Kailani says was permitted in her special education plan to help her focus. After that, Kailani stopped attending math.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. Then what do you have left?

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Dropout Report Libraries Resources 75

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. TI-NSpire CAS BLENDING THROUGH COLLABORATION PATCH has a lending library of tech awaiting learners’ eager hands. Desmos graphing calculator ? OverDrive ? PicCollage ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 55

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios. Some of the ones in the CSU library feel dashed off, says one professor who went looking for inspiration there. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. Portfolios have their drawbacks.

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Classroom ePortfolio Dropout Course 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." How does your library manage digital collections?

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds. But student fathers say the first step is just reminding people that they exist.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. These numbers make it clear that the United States will soon have many more people reentering society prepared to attend classes on a college campus.

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 116