eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

Because of the variances in funding for public school systems, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently conducted an analysis of 2017’s States with the Best & Worst School Systems. The data set ranges from pupil-teacher ratio to dropout rate to median standardized-test scores. For full methodology, click here.].

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5 percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. Yet many had difficulty concentrating and understanding what they read. And even though they were high school graduates, many were only borderline literate.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Journal of Neuroscience 37, 8549-8558 (2017). Open Education Europe, Barcelona, Spain, 2017). Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). billion annually.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 19, 2017

This is one of my favourite quotes from a college dropout who felt a post-secondary education was no longer relevant to what he needed to be successful in our world today: “Wanting” is not good enough on it’s own; the impact of our actions are how progress is always measured.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Black girls, like Hatten’s daughter, face the starkest disparities: During the 2017-18 school year, the last for which there is nationwide data, Black girls made up just 7 percent of all girls in public schools but 45 percent of girls who were suspended.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S. and Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. It also seems that it could increase the dropout rate, as students couldn’t see any end to retaking courses. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2020

. … Some students need and should be allowed to have more than four years to graduate,” said Russell Rumberger, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who directs the California Dropout Research Project. They still get a diploma, which is a good thing,” Rumberger said. At White’s Jr./Sr.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade. By 2017, Florida ranked fourth in the nation in fourth-grade reading performance overall and outperformed the national average in every subgroup. How can we help all students achieve this?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. Sydney Chaffee, 2017’s National Teacher of the Year, is ninth-grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy Charter Public School of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. — MentalHealthFirstAid (@MHFirstAidUSA) August 16, 2017. With support from the Born This Way Foundation, the National Council for Behavioral Health hopes to train 150,000 additional educators, parents and caregivers before the end of 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. In 2017, there are more than 250 inclusive college programs across the United States , and our students and families need our help to chart a course to making college dreams come true. These are purposeful dreams, common to all of us at one time or another.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The latest 2017 birthrate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posts new lows, marking almost a decade of reduced fertility. . “The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Fast forward 18 years to 2026 and we see that there are fewer kids reaching college-going age.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. “If Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 71

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

NewSchools (@nsvf) May 18, 2017. Session moderator John King, CEO of The Education Trust and former Secretary of Education (and the only high school dropout to hold that position, he noted), challenged attendees with this question: What if we held adults to the same "no excuses" standard that educators expect from students?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. h ttps://spacesforlearning.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/the-phygitals-have-arrived%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aa-generation-for-this-century/. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School. View story at Medium.com. Blog: spacesforlearning.wordpress.com.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. After that [first win], the parents were like, ‘Wait a minute, we have an award-winning theater club?

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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 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. In 2017, we raised it again to 99.7 “Credit recovery” for struggling learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Anabel Garza, Principal After realizing modest improvements on tests scores over the past few years, going from 16 percent showing grade-level academic achievement on state exams in 2013 to 30 percent in 2017, the teaching staff has deepened their mission.

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MindShift

JANUARY 11, 2019

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2017, for example, students in Roscoe, Texas, a rural community of about 1,300 residents, have been able to earn associate degrees and receive college credit by taking career education courses in health care, veterinary services and agriculture through a program called P-TECH. “And By 2022, that number grew to 8,745.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Data that Drive Solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.

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