Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

In the center, students preparing for college seek help filling out FAFSA student aid applications and studying for college entrance exams. And another nonprofit group known as AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) has helped the school create study skills programs to support student retention once they are in college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. math-teaching?experts.?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering, a school focused on STEM curriculum in Greenville, South Carolina. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. And studies show that the majority of the students who graduate from college end up economically much better off than those who don’t go to college. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Historical Context in Social Studies : When discussing the Civil Rights Movement in a history class, students draw on their prior knowledge of earlier historical events like slavery and the American Civil War to better understand the context and significance of this movement. Prior Knowledge: What Does the Research Say?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Internship and work-study programs have a long history and are common at many institutions. In some ways, this is nothing new. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Only 6 percent of students from low-income families work in lucrative fields such as science, technology, engineering or math (STEM); business or healthcare, according to the report. Interning or working in a job that aligns with their field of study improves both academic and career performances for these higher-income young people.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W. percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students. Another is studying inequalities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. There is no question in the research in the field,” said Micere Keels, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who studies school discipline.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 141

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. An aspiring mechanical engineer, Hamscho failed his first college calculus exam before he formed a study group. When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. This was something we touched on in a recent blog post on a study that found that more than half of students in the US felt “bored” at school.) If this imbalance isn’t a cause for concern among educators, it should be.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

case studies and articles I had purchased over the years). A study at the University of Minnesota, found students were more likely to pay for resources available at the library if the professor went first to the permission center instead of the library to select the textbook for the class. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. And those tend to be home visits in reaction to real problems that have come up.”. “And

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. I grew up walking in lines and studying in strict classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

My family always says, ‘If you get addicted to work, you might stop your studies,’ ” said Tasnia, who wants to become an accountant. But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. After she graduated high school, she enrolled in a junior college to study child development while working full time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Cornell never told Wolf, who is from Millburn, New Jersey, why she was admitted conditionally, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. And testing only students whose teachers or parents are aware of the program and request it; few teachers get trained in gifted education, so their recommendations are often based on stereotypes (studies find that Black students are more likely to get into gifted programs if they have teachers of the same race).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Purvis is in her first year of study for an associate degree in nursing at Everett Community College. Students fresh out of high school had an easier time remembering chemistry and math, Purvis said, but she hadn’t studied those subjects for 10 years. “We She doesn’t think she would have passed without I-BEST.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

She''s put together a list of the best artiles on Classroom Management, Reading and Language Arts, STEM, History and Social Studies, and more. Read more about this study here. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Digital Citizenship Infographics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. created the Center for Advanced Professional Studies, a facility that resembles a modern professional setting more than a school building. Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. I see a growth in our students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

College students often decamp from their universities during the summer to intern, study abroad or just get a break from dining hall food. Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Taylor had grown up “a penniless, scared, scrawny kid,” but his life began to change when he earned a full-ride to study petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University. At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Officials also believe the scholarship has helped stem a brain drain from the state.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Even if I’d had to pay tuition, attending a community college would have helped me to focus on and excel in my studies. I could have lived at home instead of on campus, saving money on tuition and housing, and spending more time studying and less time at work. The dropout rate is around 70 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Over dinner, LSU President Alexander noted that he’d immediately suspended Greek life after Gruver’s death and set up a task force to study it, but at the time, he’d made sure to add a supportive statement: “Many of our Greek organizations represent all that is good about our university.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Louisville ’s head basketball coach has been suspended for the first five Atlantic Coast Conference games of the season, a piece of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s punishment stemming from a prostitution scandal that has roiled the institution for two years.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. The ideas stemmed from the group’s twice-monthly meetings at the Patchogue library, where they talked about parenting, navigating their new American home, and the schools. The cost of crossing into the U.S.

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