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MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Better assessments and educational outcomes We can lean on technology to do more than recreate texts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

A report last fall from the same authors estimated that less than half of higher education institutions surveyed use data in this way. Some say these methods can help improve student outcomes. Often, students are not given access to their own data or the systems that predict outcomes. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 48

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. The program also benefits teachers. Students with more intensive needs receive case management services.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Slightly more than two thirds of work college alumni said in a survey that their alma maters prepared them for their current jobs, compared to 55 percent of private college graduates and 47 percent of public school graduates, according to the Work Colleges Consortium. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

. – Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. The survey is relatively short and inexpensive to administer, Wang said.

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Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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 These efforts are meant to improve learning outcomes, as well as to be fair and advance equity, especially for new students and transfer students,” Lewis said.

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Assessment Report Dropout System 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. Degree-holders command an 11 to 30 percent wage premium yet fail to justify that premium in productivity and other outcomes. to $11 per hour. “I’m

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

A 2015 survey by the Council of State Governments Justice Center found that only 13 states provided educational services for kids inside juvenile justice facilities that were comparable to those provided for kids outside of them. Just eight states provided both comparable educational and comparable vocational services, the survey found.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The debt-forgiveness program was announced at a gathering of organizations focused on improving higher education outcomes, hosted by the philanthropic Lumina Foundation. No student should have to go hungry, be homeless and go into debt in order to get a leg up in the future.

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Libraries Report Advocacy Policies 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

A RAND Corporation study conducted for the Gates Foundation (both the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Gates Foundation are among the many funders of The Hechinger Report) and published last year noted that, “while PL is promising in theory, there are very few evaluations of students’ learning outcomes.”

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

Fortunately, other data sources are available, from school site visits , student and teacher perception surveys and other tools that many school districts already utilize (think: graduation rates and statistics on student discipline). Standardized tests certainly can’t capture characteristics like school culture.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

The district formed a multi-stakeholder MTSS team—parents and caregivers, community partners and non-profits, school board members, government officials, and local law enforcement—gathering their perspectives through surveys, focus groups, and anecdotal feedback. Blog post by Michele Israel , based on this edLeader Panel.

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Dropout Outcomes Survey Laptops 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. Fewer than one in three adults now say a degree is worth the cost , according to a survey by the Strada Education Network. Related: Another million adults ‘have stepped off the path to the middle class’.

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Education Survey Report Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Past research hasn’t investigated the connection, though, between the time demands that student-parents face and their subsequent college outcomes — so my colleagues, Alyse Hachey at the University of Texas at El Paso and Katherine Conway at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and I decided to research potential links.

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Dropout Outcomes Handbook Survey 79

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Sixty percent of employers feel that the primary barrier in hiring for entry-level roles resides in the skills gap, according to a survey by PayScale. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” No one benefits from the awareness gap. These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses.

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Dropout iPhone Outcomes Course 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I By the second week of the school closures, she’d sent out a survey to each family asking about their internet access.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

To foster these kinds of outcomes in other cities, Owusu-Kesse enticed Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone’s founder and former CEO, out of semi-retirement to lead the initiative, which Owusu-Kesse sees as “a national hub” for local groups. These students come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. And, like Lopez’s classmates, many rural residents don’t see the need for a college degree, a survey by the Washington, D.C.,

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Report Dropout Groups Examples 78

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. Even if they do, a new survey finds that most employers don’t believe they’re ready for the workforce. grade-point average. Now these failures are coming home to roost.

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Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

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

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Consumer information about colleges and graduate and professional schools For law schools: The American Bar Association collects bar passage rates, employment outcomes and other information about the 199 U.S. and Canada, obtained from scores and surveys of people who take the Medical College Admissions Test, which the AAMC administers.

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Survey Data Report Dropout 91

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

And they’ve bought equipment and services designed to improve academic outcomes. Almost a third of students at New Jersey’s Union County College work full time and nearly another third part time, according to a 2020 student survey. based think tank New America, which has surveyed community college leaders throughout the pandemic.

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Software Report Trends Adobe 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

A national survey released in July found that principals in rural school districts are even less likely than their urban and suburban counterparts to stay at their school the following year and more likely to leave the profession altogether. Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education.

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Elementary Training Report Policies 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Partly as a result, educational outcomes for these students are bleak. Like other advocates, she said poor outcomes for students don’t have to be the norm, if only schools would recognize these students’ strengths. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Most of the teens she works with drop out in ninth grade.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 137

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” “The Online College Students 2017: Comprehensive Data on Demands and Preferences” – a survey from The Learning House Inc and Aslanian Market Research. ”). .

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” ” Via Ed Week’s Market Brief : “Wave of New Ed Tech In K–12 to Usher In Classroom Redesigns , Survey Finds.” An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

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