The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. In the spring of 2015, as a capstone project for our study of Puerto Rico, students wrote letters to Congress. Related : PODCAST: What happens when students get into college—but can’t afford to attend?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. Census Bureau. They were sisters. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

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. Old Dominion students in 2014-2015 paid $1,429 each in athletics fees alone, accounting for 65 percent of the athletics budget.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. The Every Student Succeeds Act ― a federal education law passed in 2015 ― allows states to create a state-defined alternative diploma that’s aligned with regular requirements. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Her son, Aaron Wang, starred as the title character in “The Music Man” in the 2015-16 school year.) “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

His flow of customers had fallen to a 10-year low , down more than 20 percent since 2015. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Business was flagging. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. Nationally, 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Indeed, in 2015, when The Charter School of San Diego received a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a prestigious federal award recognizing businesses, health care systems, educational institutions and nonprofits for performance excellence, the school was cited for high levels of satisfaction among parents and students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A 2015 study found that students who had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register. In 2015, the state required some colleges to allow them to stay in dorms over academic breaks for free.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

The treatment was a multifaceted and expensive program that included not only free tuition and books for three years, from 2015 to 2018, but also a $50 a month stipend. Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

In 2015, CUNY applied the ASAP model to bachelor’s degree-seeking students through an academic support program known as ACE ( Accelerate, Complete, Engage ) with positive results similar to ASAP’s. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 We have to make space for them to access the content.”. Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. By doing so, Middletown’s leaders believe its disadvantaged students will gain access to information and opportunities that many middle- and upper-class students may take for granted.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Megan Lello, a school district spokesperson, said her agency recognizes the importance of school counseling: Since 2015, the district has added 85 counselors and just one police officer, she said. We believe that all students should have access to counselors and related supports,” Lello wrote in an email. Why are they first to be cut?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

million students enrolled in community colleges in 2015-16, about 903,000 were 40 or older, according to Martha Parham, senior vice president of public relations for the American Association of Community Colleges. But she’s wondering about others like her: What steps are people in their 40s, 50s and 60s taking to retrain themselves?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. They are less likely to have parents or role models around them with degrees, or see job opportunities that require one.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. At the same time, programs to fight this phenomenon are expanding amid a growing body of research suggesting that they work.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. By doing so, Middletown’s leaders believe its disadvantaged students will gain access to information and opportunities that many middle- and upper-class students may take for granted.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. There is so much great content already published and accessible, that curation matters as much as creation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

But it has made the most improvement in the last five years, raising that rate from 43 percent in 2011 to 53 percent in 2015, the most recent year for which the district has full data available. Rogers has the lowest college-going rate in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In the fall of 2015, Tennessee stopped offering remedial classes at all of its public colleges and universities, moving to the co-requisite model where students take college-level courses with an extra support class to help them keep up. California part of national trend. California is not alone in grappling with this problem.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Yet in McDowell County, according to Superintendent Falin, it was high school teachers who pressed to add home visiting to the upper grades after the district launched the program in elementary and middle schools in 2015.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? MOOC dropouts are a real issue - at the Open University we''ve known for a long time that students really require a lot of support if they are to succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Stephen Boulas, student at Walsh Middle School, a Summit Basecamp school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. “All the things we do are in service to that. When we think about high school, these programs that might feel extra are actually essential. I mean sports. I mean arts. I mean band.”. In 2016, it became the first high school created after Katrina to attain Louisiana’s coveted A grade.

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