The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts. Here’s how it all adds up.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The only face-to-face meeting was in October 2021, when Tameka sent her kids on the bus, only to learn they weren’t enrolled. 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. Records show Tameka rarely called back.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. But some STEM majors are tougher than others.

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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

APRIL 6, 2022

Some students didn’t understand the difference between her class’s main meeting period and a small-group discussion regularly scheduled for another time and place, likely because their first year at UT was so abnormal. Beyond the actual classwork, Patterson noticed that her students struggled to adjust to life on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. By sending them off to spend their freshman years elsewhere and requiring them to meet certain academic targets, for instance, colleges ensure that students are motivated and likely to make it all the way to graduation rather than cost revenue by dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma. Now, she’s the most outspoken person you’ll ever meet,” he said. “And those tend to be home visits in reaction to real problems that have come up.”. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

New approaches to advising aim to reverse that trend At Bellevue College, I-BEST students enrolled in Business 101 meet with instructor Eric Nacke for an adult basic education class on a separate day. Related: Many community college students near earn a degree. Nacke teaches English in the context of the business world.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a little hard to map out an exact perfect scenario, but ensure that those kids have a tutor, ideally, a certified and experienced teacher, and if not, someone who’s getting a lot of training and support, and that those tutors are meeting with those kids from day one of the school year, if not before, to help them catch up,” said Socol.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

At an Orleans Parish School Board school board meeting last December, Lewis was seated on the dais touting a major victory for his administration. We have engaged our students, our families and our parents as we continue to make the best decision for McDonogh 35,” Lewis announced at the December meeting. Change, but what kind?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Ensuring that all children with disabilities have appropriately ambitious goals and the chance to meet challenging objectives is a priority for the department,” DeVos said in a July speech.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition to in-person coaching sessions, she fields text messages from students, gets on the phone with college officials to sort out financial aid snafus and even accompanies young people to their college campuses to visit financial aid and advisory offices and meet with staff.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

We did meet with some counselors from Sandy Hook to get some guidance from their experiences. Then we started consultation in October, meeting with them monthly, sometimes twice a month. But then we know that there are those who continue to have difficulties, and those difficulties really stem into a variety of areas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. He proposed a Venn diagram: Giftedness is where creativity, above-average ability and commitment to completing a task meet. The advantage of talent development is that kids who need a challenge don’t have to meet a potentially disqualifying entrance standard.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

BE2T exists to meet these two needs. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. All students at P.S. 154 begin their day with a morning meeting. No children from those luxury condos have enrolled in P.S. 67. It has roughly 225 students; 99 percent are low-income.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

While he previously subbed in several classrooms in the Las Vegas school district of Clark County to make ends meet while working toward his Ph.D. Her father was a social worker and her mother, a high school dropout, worked as a maid, a bus driver and eventually as an attendance officer in the district. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. After that, she’d head back to the dorm, which stays open year-round for students like her.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At that time, more than 80 percent of students were failing to meet state proficiency standards , and the school was graduating less than half of its students. 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

MARCH 27, 2018

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. Because TOPS pays for a student’s tuition, no matter the cost, the amount of state money needed to meet the scholarship’s promise jumped as schools raised the price.

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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 The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

From there, during each weekly meeting in a conference room a few doors down from the principal’s office in this sprawling high school of nearly 2,500 kids, the students dig deeper and deeper into the traumas that haunt them — nightmares about sinking into muddy rivers, or being lost in the pitch-black of the desert night.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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