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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

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MARCH 6, 2023

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study.

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Analysis Outcomes Dropout Report

Ohio import of NYC community college program passed rigorous 3-year test

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

So a recent study caught my attention because it not only copied a New York City program for community college students in three different Ohio communities but it also studied 1,500 low-income Ohio students for three years to see how many graduated when only half of them received the treatment.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

I came here for both — the training and the academics,” says Miller, who plans to study biology in college, of her decision to attend Essex Tech. One way the school has tried to encourage students’ to keep their options open is by introducing college seminar-style classes like the Genocide Studies course, currently an honors-level elective.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 billion a year in forgone tuition revenue, one study found.

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Dropout Report Policies Data

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Many, like Dzindzichashvili, interrupt their studies because of the cost. Since 2013, it has required all students taking less than a full load of classes to also take a seminar that provides them with mentors and success coaches — a package of supports for which many didn’t otherwise have time.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I She retook precalculus and earned an A.

Education

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones, senior vice provost for undergraduate studies at Temple University, and Paul Tough, author of the upcoming book, “Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,” presented some promising solutions this month during a session at the Education Writers Association’s National Seminar at Boston University.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. CARLISLE, Penn.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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COLUMN: Isolated in dorm rooms or stuck at home, some freshmen wonder if college is worth it

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By then he was accustomed to juggling the demands of fatherhood with the unyielding deadlines and expectations of college, where he is studying computer science while working full time and helping raise his kids — a responsibility for which he said he doesn’t get much sympathy from faculty. This story also appeared in The Guardian.

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Policies Report Dropout Study

What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

She would like to study zoology and become a veterinarian. Dunakin said this lack of support contributes to the high dropout rate among those who do make it to college. Nayeli Perez, an 18-year-old senior at the Academy at Palumbo, a public magnet high school in central Philadelphia. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Last August, for instance, the Center on Reinventing Public Education published a brief field report from their ongoing study of personalized-learning initiatives warning that some schools focus on the “iconography” of personalization — the technology or the project-based learning — but sacrifice rigor. It’s easy to do it superficially.”.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

College students often decamp from their universities during the summer to intern, study abroad or just get a break from dining hall food. Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In October, 2019, Prince George’s educators voluntarily crowded into a community center for a five-hour seminar, on “trauma informed care” for immigrant populations, with an expert from Harvard University. At the seminar, Alegria explained the “compounded loss” children experienced when they fled their homes. It’s not easy.”

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

Ohio import of NYC community college program passed rigorous 3-year test

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

COLUMN: Isolated in dorm rooms or stuck at home, some freshmen wonder if college is worth it

Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

What do Philadelphia’s students want? More college counseling

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

From foster care to college

‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

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