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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012). Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. He was one of nine people, globally, to be nominated.

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points.

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

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services.

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

The Hechinger Report

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. When he reentered school at Olympic College in Washington State in 2012, Jackson was elected class president and made the dean’s list. Related: Another million adults ‘have stepped off the path to the middle class’.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. They were sisters. “I

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