The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

Grachan said the school is maintaining its food pantry once a week, but he knows many students are instead accessing food banks closer to where they live. Briana Whitfield graduated from George Washington University in 2018, the same year her son Mikey graduated from preschool. Credit: (Photo courtesy of Briana Whitfield).

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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. The proportion of Black and Hispanic 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college rose from 31 to 37 percent and from 22 to 36 percent , respectively, between 2000 and 2018, federal figures show. We had some momentum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

That’s higher than the district’s fall 2018 numbers and a slight drop from 2019. During the 2018-19 school year, the last one uninterrupted by the pandemic, it logged 2,422 — a 61 percent drop. At that pace, Sarikey said the district will probably have more suspensions this year than it did pre-pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

The campus has lost more than 8,000 students since 2018-2019, with enrollment dropping from 33,500 to 25,000. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. National figures tell a similar tale. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Missing just two days of school per month has been tied to lower reading proficiency in third grade, lower math scores in middle school and higher dropout rates in high school. They just want you to be quiet.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. He attributes the cut to budget concerns — IU Northwest was the only campus within Indiana University’s higher education system to see a decline in appropriations from FY 2017 to 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates. Tuminez paused. “So So that’s what I mean by accountability.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That number jumped to 36 million by December of 2018, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Between 2014 and 2018, the economy improved as it recovered from the Great Recession, and that could have pushed some students to leave school for a strong job market.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 66.37 percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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JULY 2, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all. The 2018 Fuel Education (FuelEd®) Transformation Award winners are: Boulder Valley School District (Colo.) – for improving graduation rates and meeting student needs by providing online options for credit recovery and supplemental learning. ©2018 Fuel Education LLC.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. Study after study lists housing as a primary barrier to educational access for formerly incarcerated students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

A variety of technologies can connect students virtually with industry experts or mentors, and even if the connections don’t result in enduring relationships, the exposure can still introduce them to career paths and life advice they wouldn’t have accessed otherwise. Rethinking school offers results. MEREDITH KOLODNER.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Jayce was born in February 2018, and Hernandez spent as much time as possible studying for the May test instead. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Later, as a final project, the groups would propose ways to incorporate the study of peace into the 2018-19 history curriculum. We tried to make some adjustments, but the train was moving,” Collier said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In late 2017, a research project led by the Harvard Business School, a workforce organization called Grads of Life and the consulting firm Accenture concluded in a report, “Dismissed by Degrees,” that employers “appear to be closing off their access to the two-thirds of the U.S. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.”

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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. There are gifted dropouts. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

In 2018, she eagerly took a college counseling job at Menlo-Atherton, a public high school with 2,400 students. Credit: Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Ward’s experience as a board member with the association prompted her to start thinking about making the switch to public schools.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Later, as a final project, the groups would propose ways to incorporate the study of peace into the 2018-19 history curriculum. We tried to make some adjustments, but the train was moving,” Collier said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington State to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost. grade-point average.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. In 2018, after waiting a year, Zelaya finally got her permanent-resident credentials and that all-important Social Security number.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Of the 3,000 students who have signed up for ADVANCE, 600 have matriculated to the university since the program started in 2018, said Jason Dodge, the ADVANCE director for George Mason; by fall, that number is projected to reach 1,000. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

In August, when Paul Quinn’s 2018-19 school year begins, it is expanding to a new campus in Plano, Texas, just weeks after announcing a fledgling partnership with two urban schools in Michigan and Ohio. Many work-college advocates believe the time is right. 13, said Chris Dowdy, the vice president of academic affairs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. When Viviana became pregnant in 2018, she briefly considered getting an abortion. They don’t ask for anything for themselves.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. “My Flawed ISTE 2018 Journey Report,” writes Tim Stahmer. ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. Related: Proof Points: Lessons from college dropouts who came back Wyatt doesnt contact the university on her behalf. We can say, Hey, weve got 100 students over here who are ready to sign up, but they have parking tickets.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. million this year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Part of the disparity starts in home countries where access to education is often limited. The district is among the lowest in North Carolina in per-pupil spending, at $9,263 in 2018, and the state is already one of the lowest in the country in per-pupil spending. It paid off. She is now a sophomore.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

Working more than 15 hours a week can lead to worse academic outcomes , including higher dropout rates. Isabelle Maraschi with her brother, Fabio, and mother, Celia Maraschi, at her graduation ceremony from Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, in 2018. But research shows that often defeats the purpose. Caio Barbosa.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2018, after a decade-long consultation process, South Dakota adopted new standards designed to expand and improve instruction of Native American studies. In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students.

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