Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. We can ensure that every student can access functional technology that supports student learning.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Research tells us having a person of color teach them has a positive impact on students of all backgrounds, but particularly on the dropout rates of black students. We also know that attracting and retaining teachers of color presents unique challenges. No single software solution or hiring team can remove these systemic biases.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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Dropout Report Policies Data 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

That’s an estimated 600,000 fewer college students nationwide if these partial enrollment trends continue. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. To put that number in perspective, the loss in college students would be greater than the entire population of Baltimore.

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Report Survey Dropout Comparison 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Dozens of organizations, including Achieving the Dream, have joined the Level UP National Panel to raise awareness of solutions and introduce policies that will reverse the trending inequity. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

Mobility 131

Mobility Outcomes Accessibility Policies 131

Minga

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Reduced Dropout Rates: Supports at-risk students with targeted interventions , fostering engagement, relationships, and persistence. Advanced Class Scheduling : At Allen High School , seniors with enough Minga points gain VIP early access to the class scheduling system, allowing them to select classes 48 hours before their peers.

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Secondary Data Elementary System 52

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 disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. How is it going to be accessible?

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates.

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As a fall semester transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, a startling trend is emerging: Students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, are leaving college at an alarming rate. Craig Robinson is president of College Possible, a nonprofit organization promoting college access and success.

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Analysis Survey Report Trends 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

” High school dropout rates, workplace readiness, and inter-generational trends reflect a vicious cycle. By the time they enter middle school, low-income students without access to summer learning opportunities are typically two to three academic years behind their more affluent classmates.

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Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. For now, however, Reinoehl said, in much of the rest of higher education, there remains “a trend to charge more fees, not fewer.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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Dropout Report System Meeting 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. High cost of dropping out.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

New approaches to advising aim to reverse that trend ASAP can, and should, be expanded to benefit hundreds of thousands more students. The graduates’ returns are even greater: For every dollar a student invests up front, they realize $12 through better employment options and higher wages.

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Strategy Trends Outcomes Report 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. We urge more companies to follow in this auspicious trend of hiring those with learning differences due to neurodiversity. Who else will join us and have the courage and foresight to more intentionally access such an asset?

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Dropout Company Examples Trends 64

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He laments that his tenure in Chicago will be remembered for this more than for creating community schools, increasing access to Advanced Placement classes in high schools, and raising the high school graduation rate by 12 percentage points. Related: Lessons of nope: Joel Klein fails to educate us on how to fix our schools.

Dropout 78

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Twelve percent of students do not have access to high-speed internet at home. Subscribe today!

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Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Secondary 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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Report Policies Trends Mobility 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” What better place to reveal the results of a national survey about trends in IT than at Educause? Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Advocates of online learning cite flexibility and access, while proponents of in-person instruction emphasize social interaction and hands-on learning. Proponents of online learning highlight its flexibility and accessibility. Another benefit of online learning is accessibility.

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Online Learning Classroom Learning E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. At the same time, programs to fight this phenomenon are expanding amid a growing body of research suggesting that they work.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 But there may not be enough donors to keep all of these colleges afloat, if current trends hold true. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing. It’s saved more than $345,000 annually by streamlining some administrative tasks.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The effort in Greenville is part of a growing national trend in which school districts partner with local industries to develop curriculum and expose students to specialized careers at a young age. Schneider was one of thousands of people who responded, many of them critically, to a tweet in December from U.S.

Industry 138

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In late 2017, a research project led by the Harvard Business School, a workforce organization called Grads of Life and the consulting firm Accenture concluded in a report, “Dismissed by Degrees,” that employers “appear to be closing off their access to the two-thirds of the U.S. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.”

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. Among the suggestions: Train staff, and include students in the decision-making process, giving them access to their own data and training them to use it. Often, students are not given access to their own data or the systems that predict outcomes.

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Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 57

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

California part of national trend. “If faculty had given input, they would have said, ‘This is a good idea, here’s what we need to make it happen effectively,’ ” said Abbiate, “but we didn’t have that option.”. Gina Abbiate, a math professor at San Diego Mesa College, talks about the ramifications of the new California law AB705.

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Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Shanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler.

Industry 78

Industry Social Media Trends Report 78

MindShift

APRIL 2, 2015

Zack’s group also found that the majority of prisoners are high school dropouts, most are living under the poverty line, and 33 percent of the nation’s black males will be incarcerated during their lifetime. When his research led him to that point, Zack decided to hone in on those five states to make his case.

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Analysis Dropout Data Groups 28

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

There are similar trends at work in the United States, the Economic Policy Institute reports — including for young college graduates, whose inflation-adjusted earnings are lower than they were in the late 1990s. Related: Colleges confront the simple math that keeps students from graduating on time.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”. .”

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Some are working to reverse these trends by changing their cultures. grade-point average. children who is 27 and works two part-time jobs.

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Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

But this fall has brought a reversal of the trend. Since few states require that students be given access to class material they miss because of a suspension, keeping them in school in the first place is the only way to guarantee they have a chance to learn. million after two consecutive years of cuts.

Personalized Learning 141

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Principal Adrian Montes, top right, and educators from Redland Elementary, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, show a group of migrant students who weren’t logging in for online classes how to access their individual classes and assignments. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The underlying trends that are certainly pre-pandemic have not gone away, and we’re still not in many ways addressing them, ranging from enrollment, to completion, to the absolute disgrace of public funding.’ They’re talking about internships,” he said. So the school used $1.6 Two, frankly, is not enough.

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Software Report Trends Adobe 116

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s how overwhelmingly the women in the bar outnumber the men, a visible manifestation of a momentous trend at whose leading edge is Iceland. It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We Middle-class ones. In the U.S.,

Trends 81

Trends Report Study Dropout 81

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

It’s a worrisome trend. Grachan said the school is maintaining its food pantry once a week, but he knows many students are instead accessing food banks closer to where they live. Thomas, who had been pursuing paralegal studies via a Tennessee Reconnect grant, was one of those students who considered leaving college.

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Survey Policies Groups System 145