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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Over the past 20 years, she has helped lead the CHSM team to state and national honors including a Crystal Star Award for Dropout Prevention Schools, Civic Advocacy Award, Promising Practice Award, and being named a National School of Character. Dr. Custer is a leader in character education and civic advocacy.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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Sources of Hope for Education Technology in 2018

Edsurge

I find myself without strong enthusiasm for the task of writing a conventional set of predictions about education technology in 2018. We have backed companies focused on budgeting, scheduling, procurement, dropout prevention, and professional development for the teachers of special education students and English language learners.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

Our goal is structured around 2018. That gave us the opportunity to. put students on individualized learning plans, possibly using technology in the classroom. Now, Chromebook is the device of choice. We're well on our way to one-to-one integration. We have 11,000 students in Putnam County, and we have about 8,500 Chromebooks today.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. What happens to the education of these young women?

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PROOF POINTS: When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds

The Hechinger Report

That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. Their dropout rates were very similar whether they were in a study group’s minority or the majority. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. The system can spot and signal these users so that teachers can close knowledge gaps effectively and prevent more serious problems such as school dropout. . Video content and digital presentations . Online games and assessments. Digital field trips .