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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A 10-year analysis of how almost 100,000 students fared before and after the new policy was conducted by researchers at the University of Delaware, and their draft paper was made public earlier this year. In 2015, Tennessee’s public colleges were some of the first higher education institutions to eliminate stand-alone remedial courses.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. Standardized curricula, standardized tests and standardized policies don’t respond to the needs of all students. And dropout rates will become a thing of the past. One of these is the slow adaptation to the new world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Nonetheless, the dropouts declined for all black boys who had access to the course. What does this mean for policy makers?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters. Federal higher-ed policy isn’t helping either. And that was before the coronavirus crisis. But don’t take our word for it.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Establish a “no electronics policy” at dinnertime including for adults. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments. Ban the use of cellphones at dinnertime.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Retention is not a policy unknown. Students who are retained don’t do any better academically in the long run but they do have a significantly higher risk of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

There are now two decades of research saying that having more exposure to part-time faculty who lack the most support leads to more dropouts, lower graduation rates, lower GPAs and difficulty finding a major.” Canadian adjuncts were almost three times less likely to be concerned about low salaries, and 87 percent of them get benefits. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Autonomy also allows schools to determine what type of admissions policies work best for them. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 Budget autonomy allows schools to allocate funding as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular students. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. Only 43 colleges out of 1,669 reviewed in a study by the Educational Policy Institute had a graduation rate of over 90 percent. Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to the company.) Over a million students drop out of college each year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

As a result, dropout rates are down, high school graduation rates are up and the number of students successfully transferring from the community colleges to the public university has more than tripled.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. He described a similar policy of gradually escalating discipline and said he considers suspension in response to poor attendance a last resort.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes. They don't go to class the next day. We should own this as an industry.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University. Many of these Black students are staying in college and earning degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

More than 60 percent of the students at a shuttered campus became college dropouts, adding to the large pool of U.S. As of February 2022, only about a third of the 47 percent of students who succeeded in transferring to another campus completed a degree or a credential. adults who have student loans and no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Research indicates that this kind of learning opportunity has a lifelong impact: It can help reduce dropout rates, increase on-time graduation rates and help “students apply and extend classroom learning,” according to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Our shared future depends on it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Furthermore, federal financial aid policies could be changed to allow the living expenses of a student’s dependent children to be included in the student’s cost of college attendance. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. 2007 ([link]. Stevens, T. Satwicz, L.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

When a charter can choose only top-performing students through selective admission or else cull under-performing students through arbitrary zero-tolerance behavior policies, they can better control the students that ultimately matriculate. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Dropout Education System Data 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2014 issued a policy statement that said, please do not start school for teenagers before 8:30 in the morning. Big reductions in dropout rates. What are some of the high level takeaways that you hope that the teachers and education policy makers take away from your book?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.” But it was also about race and class.”

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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