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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

The Hechinger Report

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. Child Trends analysis of NSFG 2011-15 data, accessed through the National Center for Health Statistics. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 About the Author.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

The Hechinger Report

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Nonetheless, the dropouts declined for all black boys who had access to the course. “It shows that it works.”

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OPINION: We ignore middle school students at our own peril

The Hechinger Report

The number of middle school students who are not in an after-school program, but whose parents would enroll them if a program were available, has grown from 4 million in 2014 to nearly 5 million today. million in 2014. The pandemic is increasing that need, but not enough programs are available.

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

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. 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. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Nobody noticed.”.

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Unusual new program seeks to cut urban crime by pushing gang members into college

The Hechinger Report

When Matt Johnson’s girlfriend was killed in gang crossfire in 2014, leaving him a single father to a 3-year-old girl, he knew it was time to do something different with his life. in crime reduction, according to a 2014 evaluation conducted for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

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