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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

But a June 2023 analysis of college students in Michigan highlights a particularly leaky part of the teacher pipeline: teacher preparation programs inside colleges and universities. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) Characteristics of Public School Teachers.

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

The Hechinger Report

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. But these institutions, which educate 10 million students a year or 44 percent of all undergraduates , have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

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Introducing YouScience® Brightpath: A New Platform That Enables the Convergence of Education-to-Career to Better Prepare Students for Success in School and Life

eSchool News

In addition, the troubling nationwide high school dropout rate persists, and college enrollment and retention rates are declining for our most vulnerable populations, further highlighting student disengagement. ” YouScience® Brightpath is available for implementation for the 2023/2024 school year.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Cordi, Thomas Schreiner, and Björn Rasch (2023), prior knowledge is seen as a pre-existing understanding that influences memory consolidation during sleep. Similarly, in the paper “ Additional training opportunities restore sleep-associated memory benefits under conditions of low prior knowledge ” by Maren J. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33).

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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

The Hechinger Report

Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, on September 12th, 2023. Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, CA, on September 12th, 2023. Her grades fell to Ds, and she thought, “College just may not be for me.”

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. The Rivet School itself consists of an office big enough for four desks, a minifridge and some bookshelves. That’s just the nature of the world at this moment,” she said.

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