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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” Here are four common roadblocks that deter students from completing college, according to the group’s analysis. What have we learned that can make a difference for the next folks coming through?”

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Analysis : Analysis is the process of adding intelligence to data using algorithms. Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. ” There are three crucial elements involved in this definition. .”

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Some experts have a new idea to help students afford college: more federal loans

The Hechinger Report

The stretch of grass overlooking the amphitheater, Reflection Pond and the library “is pretty breathtaking,” she said. The aid offered to a sample of 11,000 students fell short by $12,000, on average, of covering what they’d have to pay, even after accounting for every possible grant and federal loan, according to an analysis by New America.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

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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To Get To College, It Helps Black Students To Have A Black Teacher Early On

MindShift

A recent study — part of a series of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research — shows that having just one black teacher not only lowers black students’ high school dropout rates and increases their desire to go to college, but also can make them more likely to enroll in college.

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