The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Black girls, like Hatten’s daughter, face the starkest disparities: During the 2017-18 school year, the last for which there is nationwide data, Black girls made up just 7 percent of all girls in public schools but 45 percent of girls who were suspended.

Personalized Learning 141

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 141

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. Creating access where it doesn’t exist today and hasn’t existed for many people ever is going to be crucial in the recovery.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Nearly 12 million students in 2017 didn’t have broadband internet in their homes , according to a federal report. Some have banded together to call for providing internet hotspots and Chromebooks to millions of students who cannot get online or access lessons. On Monday, Rose learned the student’s father had died.

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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. “If Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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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.”. Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English.

Learning 112

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a 22-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, struggles with spotty internet access; her mom’s salary as a grocery store cashier doesn’t allow for extras.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves. We do not enrich our citizens and help ensure equal access if we pour our money into marketing and recruitment.” But they haven’t been solved on his watch.

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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. After that [first win], the parents were like, ‘Wait a minute, we have an award-winning theater club?

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. What changes are ahead?

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 94

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017. District leaders began a search for adaptive and blended learning solutions.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 73

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

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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. According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2017, for example, students in Roscoe, Texas, a rural community of about 1,300 residents, have been able to earn associate degrees and receive college credit by taking career education courses in health care, veterinary services and agriculture through a program called P-TECH. By 2022, that number grew to 8,745.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser. Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 95

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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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In June 2017, weeks after finishing his first year of college at Columbia University, Shariq Jumani was struck by a car while crossing Riverside Drive near campus. Having access to a social network of other people who have dealt with similar experiences is very beneficial.”. NYTCREDIT: Sarah Blesener for The New York Times.

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Learning Handbook Training Report 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

For years, college students have agitated for improved mental health services, such as more counselors, easier access to them and greater awareness and sensitivity, including having professors put suicide prevention and other hotline numbers on syllabuses. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 134

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more. Study after study lists housing as a primary barrier to educational access for formerly incarcerated students. I’ll just sleep in my car.”

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 132

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. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Consumer Financial Protection Board found in 2017 that Americans age 60 and older owed an average of $23,500 in student loan debt, nearly double the average a decade earlier, though most of those loans were used to pay for children’s and grandchildren’s educations.).

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Training Data Report Study 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the poorest fifth of American families attend elite colleges and universities, according to one 2017 study. And vast inequities remain in both the enrollment and graduation rates for minority students, a recent American Council on Education report found.

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Report Policies System Outcomes 104

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.

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Report Study E-rate Training 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

In summer 2017, she began a two-year term on the board of the nonprofit Western Association for College Admission Counseling. (Alex Perez, director of communications at Menlo School, said in an email that her departure was not related to her status as a transgender woman.).

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Report Meeting Training System 96

MindShift

MARCH 3, 2017

NPR Ed previously covered trials using text messages and emails that prompt college students to sign up for financial aid and reduce dropouts among adult-education students. ” Copyright 2017 NPR. . ” Copyright 2017 NPR. Still, interest in the general area of “nudging” better behavior is growing.

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Dropout Study Software Outcomes 28

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” The Hechinger Report/Mike Elsen-Rooney). War, peace and Chromebooks.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After years of doubting his choice, Martin was confident heading into the 2017 season. “It’s no surprise that the schools that are winning championships and have good bands, schools like Edna Karr, Warren Easton, are getting something like 1,500 kids applying for 200 spots,” he said.

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Report Training Policies System 54

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

Education 144

Education Survey Report Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. When all students were eventually added to the formula in 2017, it showed that more than half of colleges and universities were graduating fewer than half of their students even after eight years.

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Report Dropout Survey Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S. and Canada. I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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