2020, Advocacy and Dropout

Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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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

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Dysart Unified School District celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020. Related: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. Credit: Tamir Kalifa for HuffPost. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online. “Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.”

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. ” Copyright 2020 NPR. Support families to help teach children. Recently, parents told the U.S.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. It leads to a malaise on the part of the institutions,” Watson Spiva said.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s longtime partner, who was father to her children, died of a heart attack in May 2020 as COVID gripped the country. Tameka is her middle name.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. Only around 40 Black male teachers, on net, joined the state workforce each year from the 2016-17 school year to 2020-21.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” “New study raises concerns about impact of automated social media advocacy on education coverage,” says Alexander Russo. to 2020, to Reach $1.83 Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Seriously?!

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

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

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

Is California saving higher education?

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