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Preventing Dropouts: An Impossible Dream?

Battelle for Kids

Only a third of high school students in California graduate on time and transition easily to postsecondary education and lasting career success (Hoachlander, Sterns, & Studier, (2008).

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Dropout Detective Offers Academic ‘Credit Scores’—But Is That a Good Thing?

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That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

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We started back in 2008, and look where we are right now. My big last question for you, then, is this: What do you think is a first step that districts and schools can take in creating this bridge between K12 and higher ed? Today, we had our 62nd district visit the VITAL program in 2 years to ask that very question.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. Pear Press, San Francisco, 2008). Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). billion annually. UC Santa Barbara.

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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

The Hechinger Report

AT&T may have committed $450 million since 2008 through its Aspire program to support making education a stronger, data-driven enterprise, but corporate America can play a bigger role, especially in light of numerous recent statements about the need for an educated workforce. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. After the 2008 recession, many men were laid off from manufacturing jobs and enrolled in college to retrain. The number of Black and white undergraduate students is each down 8 percent between fall of 2019 and fall of 2020.

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Making the American Dream a Reality for Underserved Students

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The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 The same phenomenon is true in higher education.

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