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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. The post Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle appeared first on The Hechinger Report. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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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. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images.

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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. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments. About the Author.

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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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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

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Back in January 2014, I noted that. Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. In that January 2014 blog post I said that. Being retained does not increase academic achievement in the long run.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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