The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

The program gives credit for work experience, offers flexible online classes and offers in-state tuition prices to every student, regardless of whether they live in Maryland, to help make the bachelor’s degree more financially accessible, Vaught said. “It’s Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Talent Development Secondary, a nonprofit that grew out of a Johns Hopkins University study on dropout rates, is the data-driven arm of the Diplomas Now model; it identifies kids at risk of dropping out and establishes a schoolwide process of intervention and support services to keep them on track to graduate. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. “Stay out of jail!”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As we consider how to support students, we need to prioritize making sure they have enough to eat and a safe place to sleep along with providing high-quality instruction and internet access. Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. If you’re cobbling together jobs at different universities to make ends meet, you don’t have the time to do the work you want to with your students,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. The AFT represents 85,000 adjuncts who have unionized. “If

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Here’s how it works: Sign up for a free version of Nepris (it comes with one live virtual session and access to hundreds of recorded sessions). There are also many industry-offered virtual sessions where multiple classrooms can join.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

They can also donate equipment and serve on advisory boards to ensure that schools’ technical education classes meet industry standards. Budget autonomy allows schools to allocate funding as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular students. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% “Through digital materials that are affordable, accessible, and effective, we can work towards a learning environment that leads to better outcomes for all,” Michael Ryan, President of Higher Education at McGraw Hill.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. She was making ends meet by working as a cashier at a local gas station, until an injury took her off the job. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. This story also appeared in HuffPost. We can’t hug you’.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

In town hall meetings, the district identified basic needs and wants to meet first before addressing school issues. Relationship building, access, and enhanced school communication are primary considerations across school sites. Findings were shared with the district to identify what was working and what to prioritize.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

We appreciate President Joe Biden’s commitment to expanding HBCU funding, but believe that sustaining that effort is just a necessary first step toward creating an equitable, accessible and diverse higher education ecosystem. We also understand that the digital divide isn’t just about access, but also know-how.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

During their college careers, far too many students lack reliable access to nutritious food, hampering their efforts to advance their education and skills. Drawing on these interviews, our research found that there are actions that institutions and policymakers can take to address students’ lack of access to nutritious food.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Equal treatment — giving the exact same service to everyone — isn’t the same thing as equitable treatment, which is providing what each child needs to meet a particular goal. What can we do about these dilemmas posed by a standardized system trying — and failing — to meet the needs of so many children?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. A meeting with an Aon recruiter changed her course. pursuing bachelor’s?and

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Even for students who are poor enough to qualify for free tuition, it’s been a turbulent year to submit documents and meet paperwork deadlines to receive financial aid. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. Native American college students have declined the most, down 11 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I actually lower my standards,” John Hunt, who teaches history, told Tuminez at a contentious meeting of the faculty senate she attended in October, a video of the meeting shows. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. I do it myself.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Not everyone is convinced that sending gang members to college is the best way to meet their needs or better their communities. At the same time, politicians and the public are more sympathetic to the students who are victims of school shootings, not the dropouts who are much more likely to be killed by gunfire.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Credit: Monica Williams.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

A single mother with a 5-year-old daughter, the student told me she works 22 hours each week to make ends meet for her small family. As things stand, existing on-campus child care centers meet only about 5 percent of actual need. Another approach to improve access to child care is to modify the federal financial aid system.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Fayette County Public Schools has a Community Partnership Leadership Team that meets once a month to share information about projects and make sure they are moving the needle forward. Recently, there has been an emphasis on providing arts and athletic opportunities, which many students missed while learning remotely. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. He and his then-wife would meet on the subway platform to hand off their daughter as they both went to and from class. Jesus Benitez meets his son, Mason, after school at a pizzeria in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. “Giving them access to the SEEK program is giving them $4,000 a year,” said Friedman. Meanwhile, many more low-income students attended lower-tier colleges and didn’t enter the middle class afterward.

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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. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. Small Business Administration and as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Newcomb High School is a public school located in the Navajo Nation, around 70 miles south of the Four Corners Monument where New Mexico meets Arizona, Colorado and Utah, in a school district that spans almost 3,000 square miles. Jake, who, like Curley, is Navajo, lived up a remote mountain road with no cell phone service. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families. To actively pursue these actions, community colleges, which serve over a third (36 percent) of all Black undergraduate students , must rethink our notions of college access.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them. Some have banded together to call for providing internet hotspots and Chromebooks to millions of students who cannot get online or access lessons. They all want to know: Will school re-open in the fall?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. She didn’t feel motivated at school, cutting class to meet with her boyfriend, usually to smoke pot.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. At cafécollege Houston, “parking is accessible and it’s a comfortable and warm environment,” Martinez says. The advice is free.

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Libraries Dropout Secondary Accessibility 87

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. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. She couldn’t rely on her mother, who has never attended college and was just as confused.

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Dropout Laptops Study Report 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Although an estimated 90 percent of students with disabilities should be able to meet the same graduation standards as their peers, the national graduation percentage for students with disabilities lingers in the mid-60s. Her fear is well-founded.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. They email and telephone parents and call families in to meet with the instructors, a social worker, case manager or other support staff if a student is struggling.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a 22-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, struggles with spotty internet access; her mom’s salary as a grocery store cashier doesn’t allow for extras.

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