The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

An entire forest of potential future graduates is now imperiled by the cataclysmic pandemic that has large numbers of students saying they will delay their higher educations, take time off, opt for community college or shift to studying part time. But studying part time also significantly lowers success rates.

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eSchool News

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. Some studies have suggested that non-native language speakers struggle to access effective healthcare, while others have found increases in negative interactions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right. Students at more selective institutions are taking gap years.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 2, 2016

A one percentage point drop in the 16 percent in-school and out-of-school sophomore suspension rate could lead to a fiscal benefit of $691 million as estimated by the study, because of improvements in areas like earnings and taxes for affected students, and it could lead to a social benefit of $2.2 Suit by Parents, Pro-Charter Group: N.Y.C.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Gallup found that while 74% of surveyed fifth-graders are engaged in school, only one-third of 10th through 12th graders are. In fact, according to Education Week , an analysis of 46 studies found that positive classroom relationships between educators and learners resulted in school improvements.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

According to the 2021 Washington state Healthy Youth Survey, about 13 percent of the state’s eighth graders said they don’t have an adult to turn to when they feel sad or hopeless. Last year, researcher Mina Fazel analyzed studies from all over the world examining peer mental health programs in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The report’s findings came from an analysis of three different national surveys that followed almost 50,000 students from high school onward. It’s unclear from the current data if the dropout rates for first-generation students are improving or worsening. That figure reflects dropout rates, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Floyd said he lost interest in his studies, was doing poorly in his classes and didn’t want to burden the family with tuition bills. Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. But as the years went by, his student debt prevented him from even re-applying to college to resume his studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers from the University of San Diego have started a three-year, longitudinal study of the impact of the World of Work program. They’ll collect surveys and other data, looking for patterns in how students see themselves and their futures thanks to the career exposure. Teachers say they are already overstretched.

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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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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. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, worried she would have to withdraw from classes last month after her internet kept going down as she studied from home. Credit: Maria Romo-Gonzalez.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Surveys bear this out. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? Two-thirds of Americans in a Pew Research Center survey said that students aren’t getting the skills they need for the workplace. Now they understand how education works.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You can post lessons, photos, calendar availability, link surveys using Google Forms, and much more. Without effective and purposeful communication among teachers and families, students have the possibility of falling behind in their studies, show no interest in academics, or become early dropouts. Reference Garcia, L.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to one recent survey, 34 percent of adults have changed or canceled their education plans because of Covid-19. Ninety-seven percent of the alumni we surveyed who have children say it is “likely” or “very likely” that their children will be able to attend college.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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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. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data. The Tech Check survey “opened our eyes,” Mickens said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I couldn’t study the way I wanted to.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Davenport University graduates who can’t find jobs in their fields of study within six months get up to 48 additional credit hours free.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In fact, a recent study found that nearly 25 percent of teenage girls and almost 10 percent of teen boys suffer from depression by the age of fourteen. Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Meanwhile, almost seven in 10 parents said in a survey that they had eliminated colleges from consideration for their children because of the cost. In another survey , only 44 percent of Americans said private, nonprofit universities and colleges are worth what they charge. Baenninger said. The sticker price was untenable.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

In the center, students preparing for college seek help filling out FAFSA student aid applications and studying for college entrance exams. And another nonprofit group known as AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) has helped the school create study skills programs to support student retention once they are in college.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Full-time students are required to work to earn degrees, and their work is evaluated by supervisors, making this approach different from optional programs such as work-study or internships. The work is an integral part of the curriculum at these colleges. And they have been laboring, so to speak, in relative obscurity.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. 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

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In June, a survey of 201 school districts in Connecticut by the state education board found that 22 percent of students (some 116,000) had only partially or minimally participated in remote learning and 4 percent (21,000) had not participated at all. It wasn’t seen as the highest-priority concern.”.

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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 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. An overwhelming majority of survey respondents (88 percent) said they have a difficult time finding teaching materials for their students. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Then the admissions counselor showed her something new – MyinTuition , a six-question survey that takes only a few minutes to fill out and predicts with surprising accuracy just how much financial aid a student can anticipate from the college. She loved the place, but not its price tag: $60,000, well beyond her family’s means.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Research shows exercise can ease things like panic attacks or mood and sleep disorders, and a recent study in the journal, Lancet Psychiatry, found that popular team sports may have a slight edge over the other forms of physical activity. The researchers analyzed CDC survey data from 1.2 The researchers analyzed CDC survey data from 1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. The same group confirmed the findings of two studies that estimated an average of 13 percent of community college students may be homeless.

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