The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. According to data provided by district officials, in spring 2016 (the most recent year available), Webster graduated 75 percent of its seniors, a 22-point increase in just three years. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Secondary Data Report 85

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In November 2016, over 250 school district leaders, researchers, thought leaders, and other partners came to Baltimore, Maryland to learn from one of the nation’s most forward-thinking school districts, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). ” During a keynote address at the meeting, Dr. Freeman A. It’s about success.”

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Accessibility E-rate Dropout Meeting 120

EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 What can schools do? About the Author.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

A photo posted by Eating Around So Cal (@eatingaround) on Nov 4, 2016 at 8:17pm PDT. As part of the evening's events, we awarded three very special partners who have made a huge impact on our organization as well as math education. Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Well, it’s been ten years, and with the recent proliferation of terms like “personalized,” “mastery-based,” and “blended” in the education world, some of Robinson’s viewers may wonder if or how his take on schools has changed. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Higher Education.

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Dropout Libraries Report Secondary 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. According to a 2016-17 national study of more than 1.2 My colleague finished his email to me with this: “What we do MATTERS!” Source: Achieve3000.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

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. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Such closures have a disastrous impact on education in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. student of color and a past New York City public school educator, I am particularly concerned about how these closures are hurting Hispanic and Black children and those from low-income families.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

A February 2018 report found that, nationwide, those who earn a bachelor’s degree are likely to earn the same paychecks as their peers who had more educated parents. Department of Education earlier this month points out that a college education can still be a lever of social mobility. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Dropout Report Analysis Survey 100

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. With the additional help, he forged through school, graduating in 2016. Department of Education to implement and study the model in middle and high schools. Take Noe Castro’s story.

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Dropout Comparison Outcomes Study 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

That’s a problem, said Michelle Caldeira, senior vice president of College Bound Dorchester, the organization that created Boston Uncornered in 2016. Recipients of the grants, including Boston Uncornered, use outreach workers to identify the young men on the streets and connect them with education, employment and mental health care.

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Dropout Report Data Policies 100

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

A popular narrative in the employment market today is that a "skills gap" exists between the abilities employers seek in candidates and the capabilities that new college graduates gain through postsecondary education. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” Today, it is 68 percent. At almost $1.3

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Dropout iPhone Outcomes Course 107

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Fewer than a quarter of Latino American adults had a college degree in 2016, less than half the rate of white Americans, according to a report by The Education Trust. But we won’t reach our goals for a college-educated workforce if we ignore the racial gaps that exist.” Photo: Jesse Pratt.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 88

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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Data Dropout Company Report 108

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Department of Education. Department of Education says. That’s about 2 percent. Out of a population of 3.2

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Splashy for nerdy education circles, at least. You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. Almost 11,000 students were enrolled in CUNY’s SEEK program as of the fall of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. See here and here.)

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System Dropout Groups Data 108

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

We can channel that money, instead of building new jails and prisons, to educating the children that are in those jails and are not being served. 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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

It may have been one of the biggest back-to-school sales ever: a 64 percent drop in the advertised cost of a college education. In the 10 years ending in 2016, college tuition and fees rose 63 percent, or three times the rate of everything else tracked by the Consumer Price Index, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

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Dropout Survey Report Strategy 81

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

In 2012, a book titled, “Saving the School: The True Story of a Principal, a Teacher, a Coach, a Bunch of Kids and a Year in the Crosshairs of Education Reform,” was written about her efforts. According to data from the Texas Education Agency , the graduating class of 2016 started with 326 ninth-graders, but only graduated 243 students or 74.5

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Dropout STEM Data Study 92

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 But not at the Muñiz Academy.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The family also made the move due to Mast’s husband’s job, but the education issues in Tennessee were a key factor. “I Photo: Courtesy Jawanda Mast.

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Education Assessment Report Resources 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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Education Elementary Meeting Study 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Dropout Report Data System 54

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In September 2019 the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student aid released data showing two consecutive years of falling default rates. Higher Education. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods.

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Dropout Data Report Google 61

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Their schools were crumbling and had twice been taken over by the Mississippi State Board of Education for failing to provide students with an adequate education. It’s about improving education for all kids,” said school district Superintendent Lewis Holloway. Related: Schools in the poorest state become even poorer.

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Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make.

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System Education Report Elementary 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education.

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Data Course Study Meeting 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Schools in the area encourage students to further their education by emphasizing college, in banners, flags and murals. Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. My first few days of classes quickly exposed me to the educational inequality that scars this nation.”. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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Dropout Study Elementary Report 94

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 82