2019, Dropout and Online Learning

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting. Then the pandemic arrived.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. She worked as a home health aide and couldn’t monitor Ezekiel online.

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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

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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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The system fully implemented the program in the 2019-20 school year and reduced the number of developmental course sections it offered. Pigg is the associate dean of institutional research & academic advancement at Southern Union and was chair of the mathematics department in 2019. “It percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Over the same period in 2019, the figure was 114. Credit: Rosamund Looney.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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. In the summer, Black enrollment overall dropped by more than 6 percent , compared to 2019, more sharply than that of any other racial group.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Even before the pandemic, widening access to student services, increasing enrollment and retention and developing a higher-quality online or hybrid learning experience were a pretty familiar slate of issues. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ?

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Education Policies System Survey

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration prohibited providers in the program from referring patients for abortion except in rare cases, leading almost 1,000 clinics to leave the program. Programs that helped prevent pregnancy in the first place have also come under fire.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school.

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