EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Establish a “no electronics policy” at dinnertime including for adults. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments. Ban the use of cellphones at dinnertime.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Nonetheless, the dropouts declined for all black boys who had access to the course. What does this mean for policy makers?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

More than 60 percent of the students at a shuttered campus became college dropouts, adding to the large pool of U.S. As of February 2022, only about a third of the 47 percent of students who succeeded in transferring to another campus completed a degree or a credential. adults who have student loans and no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University. Many of these Black students are staying in college and earning degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.” But it was also about race and class.”

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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. Retention is not a policy unknown. Students who are retained don’t do any better academically in the long run but they do have a significantly higher risk of dropping out.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2019

School attendance has become a point of focus in educational reform in recent years, as research has indicated that chronic absenteeism is a predictor of poor academic performance and higher dropout rates. The students came from a range of urban, suburban, and rural districts.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. Standardized curricula, standardized tests and standardized policies don’t respond to the needs of all students. And dropout rates will become a thing of the past. One of these is the slow adaptation to the new world.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes. They don't go to class the next day. We should own this as an industry.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

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. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

As a result, dropout rates are down, high school graduation rates are up and the number of students successfully transferring from the community colleges to the public university has more than tripled.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

According to a study by the National Education Policy Center, students engaged in face-to-face instruction tend to achieve higher academic outcomes compared to those in online environments. Dropout rates in online K12 programs tend to be higher compared to traditional schools, indicating issues with retention and persistence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Research indicates that this kind of learning opportunity has a lifelong impact: It can help reduce dropout rates, increase on-time graduation rates and help “students apply and extend classroom learning,” according to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Our shared future depends on it.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Baltimore has now established a partnership framework aligned with district policies and priorities and a rubric for evaluating partners. Schools have also created “parent cafes” where parents can discuss non-academic issues in a safe environment without being judged. Expanding Family and Community Engagement Programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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MindShift

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Over and over the data shows racial bias in the country’s classrooms has lead to lost instructional time, dropouts and often incarceration. Zero-tolerance policies arose out of fears about increasing school violence in the 1980s. The legacy of those early policies are felt in very different ways now.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

During the hearing I talked about the importance of early literacy, discussed the components of a comprehensive early literacy policy and highlighted success stories in Alabama’s neighboring states. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

That switch from algebra to stats is a big one for a lot of students,” said Lindsay Daugherty, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation who has studied remedial education and efforts to reform it. Some researchers argue that the shift to statistics might have made the difference.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

When a charter can choose only top-performing students through selective admission or else cull under-performing students through arbitrary zero-tolerance behavior policies, they can better control the students that ultimately matriculate. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

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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. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

He spends much of his time providing leadership and guidance to the National Dropout Prevention Center and the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center, which are part of the Successful Practices Network.

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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. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Yet even when students reach college prepared with the necessary self-advocacy skills, there are still barriers to success that policy can play an important role in removing. Related: The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree.

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