EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.” (4) University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Coulson, New NAEP scores extend dismal trend in US Education productivity. billion annually.

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Learning System Dropout Conference 168

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Dozens of organizations, including Achieving the Dream, have joined the Level UP National Panel to raise awareness of solutions and introduce policies that will reverse the trending inequity. It is up to us as higher education leaders, policymakers and community leaders to chart a new path to meet the needs of Black college students.

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Mobility Outcomes Accessibility Policies 114

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. A growing trend.

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Data Dropout Company Report 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

To increase the number of Americans with degrees by 33 percent in less than a decade, colleges will have to get much better at serving the kinds of students who have historically fallen through the cracks, and they will have to do so fast to meet that target. Graduation rates for poor students haven’t budged much in the past four decades.

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Dropout Trends Data Study 55

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Patterson, an associate professor of instruction, said that the college does not yet fully understand how the pandemic has affected student preparedness, but that some trends are emerging. After Treisman administered the first exam last fall, Winterer, his co-professor, emailed all the students who failed, asking them to meet with her.

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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. Before Ontere leaves, she schedules a follow-up meeting and hands him a meal voucher. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Credit: Monica Williams.

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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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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. Schneider was one of thousands of people who responded, many of them critically, to a tweet in December from U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

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. Along with nursing, other high-demand I-BEST job pathways include aeronautics, manufacturing and information technologies.

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Industry Training Report Course 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Taravella High School in Florida, hasn’t wanted to speak up in her large algebra I class that meets on Microsoft Teams. One goal of that early-algebra trend was to get more kids through calculus and onto a STEM degree track. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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STEM Report Course Study 126

Educator Innovator

JULY 14, 2014

By engaging in the local community through her research, she proposed a local way to address the problem of Latino dropout rates at her school, asking that the school offer translation support for parents to talk with teachers at the beginning of each semester to check in on a student’s progress.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning brings focus to the planning skills that are needed, the issues that are involved, and the current trends as we explore the potential impact of technological innovations. LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 She has opened the books to faculty and students, holding meetings with them complete with PowerPoint presentations in which she’s spoken frankly about the problems. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” But they also saw benefits.

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Strategy Training Report Company 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. And, significantly, the university hired 42 new advisors – human beings, not the computer version – and reported that in one year they used data to schedule 43,000 in-person meetings between students and advisors. Really, it’s misnamed.”.

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 49

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition to in-person coaching sessions, she fields text messages from students, gets on the phone with college officials to sort out financial aid snafus and even accompanies young people to their college campuses to visit financial aid and advisory offices and meet with staff.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked. That’s one thing I wasn’t warned about when it comes to the corporate world,” he said. “So

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. There are similar trends at work in the United States, the Economic Policy Institute reports — including for young college graduates, whose inflation-adjusted earnings are lower than they were in the late 1990s.

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Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

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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Dropout Report System Meeting 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Like their counterparts all over the world, most of the students here avoid taking classes that are scheduled to meet on Fridays, giving themselves a head start on their weekends. 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. In the U.S.,

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Trends Report Study Dropout 74

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

BE2T exists to meet these two needs. 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.

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Jackson doesn’t have all the enrollment numbers yet for summer and fall classes, but when she speaks to students who aren’t registering for classes and asks why, some have said they are too busy meeting basic family needs like food, shelter and water. It’s a worrisome trend.

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Survey Policies Groups System 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

trillion by 2060, based on current trends, a book coauthored by Hobby Center director and former U.S. In the United States, closing the gap between Hispanics and non-Hispanics would increase personal income nationwide by $24.4 Census Bureau head Steve Murdock calculates. Photo: Liam Richards.

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Groups Report Dropout Study 40

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.”. Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Some are working to reverse these trends by changing their cultures. We talk a lot about meeting students where they are, but are we? grade-point average. When are services open?

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Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. It’s a brand-new era of teaching after the pandemic, Joseph said, and so the program has had to be adjusted to meet that. “We

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Education Elementary Data Dropout 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

“When that student meets with an academic adviser now, they’re not talking about, ‘Oh, are you babysitting at this time?’ The underlying trends that are certainly pre-pandemic have not gone away, and we’re still not in many ways addressing them, ranging from enrollment, to completion, to the absolute disgrace of public funding.’

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5

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Education Policies Course System 99

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

He says legislators must act now because given trends in immigration and the added challenges because of the coronavirus, “I think every district in the country is going to see a surge next year when it comes to need.” With the flexibility she had in her budget, last year, she hired three additional bilingual teacher aides.

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Elementary Report Exercises Trends 142

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. While The Hechinger Report touted early in the year that “most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed,” that might be changing too. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

And the trend is picking up momentum as the Trump administration and Congress seek to soften federal regulations that were beefed up during the Obama years. Loan-servicer Navient has been sued by the attorneys general of Washington, Illinois and Pennsylvania for violating consumer protection laws, which the company denies.

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Company Industry Advocacy Report 73