The Hechinger Report
MAY 15, 2023
More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. So NASSP has programmed interaction into the conference.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2019
Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Related: Report finds a drop in Black enrollment at most top public colleges and universities. Last year, 50 did. It’s so sad. They’re like, ‘Why should I go to college? We’re just triaging.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5
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