Comparison Dropout Education 
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.
Edsurge
MAY 11, 2017
That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Some 44 percent of American university and college faculty are part-time , according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Credit: Allen McEachern for The Hechinger Report Now there’s new scrutiny of how adjuncts’ pay and benefits affect not only them but also their students, who often go into debt to cover rising tuition.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 24, 2016
John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 13, 2017
At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. Take Noe Castro’s story. So where do we go from here?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 26, 2020
At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. In comparison, the drop in new students was only about half as much at public and nonprofit four-year institutions, which tend to serve higher income students. The number of new students is down 23 percent.
Edsurge
JULY 29, 2020
By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.
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