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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

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Student engagement, described as the tendency to be behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively involved in academic activities, is a key construct in motivation research (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2009). Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers ).

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Ray has served as Chair of the National Dropout Prevention Network and was the chief learning officer for Penn Foster, a global leader in online education. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

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percent of students who graduated or left school during the 2009-10 year. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. And it’s a whopping 4.6 “But there’s a bureaucracy.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

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The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District increased from 78 percent in 2009 to 97 percent for the last three years in a row. Subscribe today! The district has followed a winding road to get here, though.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution.

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Students, feeling nickel-and-dimed, force new scrutiny of college fees

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And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. Georgia’s Board of Regents added a $100 “special institutional fee” in 2009 when state funding was cut near the start of the recession.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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