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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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Indeed, hundreds of millions of students, educators, and researchers in more than 200 countries and territories have access to education technologies and online curricula running on AWS. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students.

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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.

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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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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. percent from the year before.

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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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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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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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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 119

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 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends 101

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 51

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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

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 71

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 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Patterson, an associate professor of instruction, said that the college does not yet fully understand how the pandemic has affected student preparedness, but that some trends are emerging.

Education 128

Education Course Report Policies 128

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 68

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 68

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?).

Pearson 60

Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

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.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 128

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.

Policies 109

Policies Report Trends Mobility 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? The answer is a little of both, Carnevale explained.

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Education Policies System Survey 110

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 95

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.

Outcomes 47

Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 47

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via Techcrunch : “What Apple ’s education announcements mean for accessibility.” ” This is my shocked face. .”

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Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

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 86

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.”

Company 112

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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 59

Industry Social Media Trends Report 59

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

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

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

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

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Let’s not worry that there are many people who do not have access to electricity, let alone Internet, let alone digital devices.). And there’s more on for-profits and student loans in the research section below.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. It’s almost as though we cannot talk about wealth and income and higher ed without looking more broadly at trends and institutions outside of higher ed. ” asks Bryan Alexander.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

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

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. Tennessee is not the only place experiencing this trend. College skepticism , by the numbers.

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