Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Study after study, researcher after researcher, finds the same few things about retention: No long-term achievement gains. Significantly higher dropout rates. For example, one study showed that 65% to 90% of overage children in grade 9 do not persist to graduation. Back in January 2014, I noted that. Lower life success.

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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. That question is at the center of an ongoing randomized control trial study involving 62 underserved schools in 11 urban districts from Boston to Los Angeles. “ Take Noe Castro’s story.

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Dropout Comparison Outcomes Study 74

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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Dropout Libraries Report Secondary 72

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. Ultimately, though, he enrolled at the University of Houston, where he now studies accounting.

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Libraries Dropout Secondary Accessibility 84

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. Bowie arrived on campus lacking in study skills but armed with his family’s support, a federal grant for low-income students, a work-study grant and student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Students study over lunch at St.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 74

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” The resulting program allows at-risk students to stay enrolled in high school while they study for, then take, the HiSET – at no cost to the student. I started clicking out,” Hargrove said.

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Dropout Policies Report System 55

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In Field trips to local employers are another. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. While some educators laud personalized learning’s benefits, there aren’t mountains of comprehensive studies to validate claims.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition. Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees. But in nearly every iteration of these programs — old and new — only some Indigenous people benefit. That’s because the U.S.

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Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 86

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco. It’s a crisis.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. Janae Cantu has dyslexia and thus struggles with reading.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And a new study warns that, in America, all boys at the bottom of the income ladder are losing hope of ever climbing up it, in what the authors call “economic despair.”. Francesca Ashton at the University of Liverpool, where she studies dentistry, a subject in which women now far outnumber men. In the U.S., In the U.K.,

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Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors. created the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, a facility that resembles a modern professional setting more than a school building.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A recent study from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that works with school districts to help close the digital divide, found that affordability was the largest contributing factor. When schools are closed, she said, students “still have to do their schoolwork; they still need access to the internet at home.”.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

A recent study by the American Association for Employment in Education reported teacher shortages in more than half of the countries surveyed. UNESCO reports that the market for pre-primary, primary and secondary education worldwide expanded by more than 142 million students between 1999 and 2006. ” Everything else is secondary!

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Secondary Training Survey Dropout 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. I grew up walking in lines and studying in strict classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The many causes of this begin in primary and secondary grades, where research shows that girls are earlier to apply themselves, while boys are more likely to drop out, impatient to begin earning money and unwilling to spend further years in school. Katrín Ólafsdóttir, an economist at the University of Reykjavik who studies gender inequality.

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Trends Report Study Dropout 71

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

From the same study: “The current teachers’ shortage represents arguably the most imminent threat to the nation’s schools. A study by the business school at the UCLA, Los Angeles, showed that the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics as common sources of dissatisfaction.

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 88

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. As Harry Anthony Patrinos at the World Bank reports , “Post-secondary education graduates are at the lowest risk of losing to automation. he laments.

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Dropout Data Training Secondary 84

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. Schools are the perfect teaching grounds for potential citizens because when students go to school, they are doing more than someone who simply studies the materials the U.S. The 1982 U.S.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report 60

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Gabriel Moncayo Citing Kapor’s recently released 2017 Tech Leavers Study , Huaranca underscored why diversity isn’t just a moral policy but an economic one: the most frequently cited reason for leaving a job according to a survey of nearly 2,000 respondents was unfair treatment, a problem cited by 37 percent of those surveyed.

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Education Policies Company Dropout 94