eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% “Through digital materials that are affordable, accessible, and effective, we can work towards a learning environment that leads to better outcomes for all,” Michael Ryan, President of Higher Education at McGraw Hill.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Without a change in engagement, professional development efforts will be severely hampered and learning outcomes will stay depressed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. What is Measuring Up?

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The world of education has adopted digital learning as a reliable way of delivering instruction, assessing student progress and supporting better academic outcomes. This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Read more: 3 Gamification principles for a gamified learning environment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Little wonder that a recent report reveals that Black public community college enrollment dropped by 26 percent, or almost 300,000 students, between 2011 and 2019 and by another 100,000 students during the pandemic, bringing Black community college enrollment levels back to where they were more than two decades ago.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging. Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Even during the pandemic, the ASAP model continued to have a positive impact on student outcomes. This story about improving college completion rates was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In the context of education, prior knowledge acts as a lens through which new concepts are viewed, interpreted, and assimilated, playing a crucial role in shaping learning outcomes, engagement with new material, and the overall educational experience.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. And, if that weren’t enough, we also get to pay more and get a worse outcome! Image credit: Mackenzie Ryan, Des Moines Register education reporter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. Take Noe Castro’s story. So where do we go from here?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. They are not likely to go and seek help.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Outcomes are encouraging. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2016

The sooner kids receive intervention and treatment the better the outcome typically is. It’s not just a matter of their grades, although high school dropouts are much more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. The Center for Disease Control reports that there are 4,300 alcohol-related deaths involving underage drinkers each year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

As has been common since the very first large-scale studies were reported more than ten years ago, blended models—ones that mix and match face-to-face with online—emerged with the strongest outcomes. The report also showed that in other outcomes, too, online students were not as strong as their residential peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2023

Over 40 percent report some form of depression, while 37 percent live with anxiety. Campuses are struggling to provide enough counseling services, due to financial reasons and a shortage of professionals in the field, and the outcome can be dropping out of school or, much worse, the tragedy of lost lives.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

Without better education and economic outcomes across the socioeconomic frontier, we all lose —Gordon Freedman In the U.S., Without better education and economic outcomes across the socioeconomic frontier, we all lose. Is there a type of measurement that could capture outcome performance as well as bottom-line sales and growth rates?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. MANKATO, Minn. High cost of dropping out. Paul College.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. And that doesn’t necessarily indicate that the economic outcomes of the students have improved. States in white have average default rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. It was engineering week at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering.

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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. Sign up for Hechinger’s higher education newsletter.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. The outcomes provide insight into what makes for effective strategies. It captured families that might otherwise be disengaged; 85% remembered receiving the report and finding it very helpful. Todd received his Ph.D.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

The outcome of this commission is Learning 2025: Student-Centered, Equity-Focused Education, an AASA initiative that calls for holistic redesign of the public school system by 2025. He is also the author of numerous books about learning and education, textbooks, research reports, and journal articles.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez for The Hechinger Report. At Wisconsin’s Silver Lake College, Matt Goff, dean of SLC Works, the school’s work college model, sees another potential boost from his school’s year-old program: fewer dropouts. ASHEVILLE, N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Once again, the story has a happy outcome. Pointing to the decline in the county’s dropout rate, Duncan proclaims: “It’s a model that works, and it’s been replicated across Georgia and has also been the subject of a Harvard Business School study.” (A Related: Lessons of nope: Joel Klein fails to educate us on how to fix our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

This report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college. Where a student works and the type of work he or she does can set the stage for career outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

But the 16 percentage point difference in graduation rates between the treated and untreated students is unusually high in rigorous experiments like this where researchers factored in the outcomes of all students who were assigned for treatment but didn’t comply with the program’s rules or even enroll in college at the start.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 4, 2020

The New York State Department of Education reported that in Buffalo Public Schools the district spent $11,922 per student in general education and $23,871 per student in special education last year. Potential Outcomes for the 701 BuffSci Students if the School Closes. 203 more HS dropouts. Annual Cost to Buffalo Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That number jumped to 36 million by December of 2018, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. In the last five years, some institutions have gotten better at submitting student data, allowing the center to improve its ability to track students and analyze outcome measures.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5

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