eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Some studies have suggested that non-native language speakers struggle to access effective healthcare, while others have found increases in negative interactions.

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EdTech Education Policies Assessment 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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Dropout Report Policies Study 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right.

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Report Survey Dropout Comparison 128

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. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 139

Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Gallup found that while 74% of surveyed fifth-graders are engaged in school, only one-third of 10th through 12th graders are. This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” Why is it important to build relationships with learners?

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Learning Hapara Examples Dropout 176

edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Local police, firemen, athletes, and family members read books aloud and discuss their meaning and impact, which has helped “reading become cool,” according to Christian Adair, Student/Family Transitional Support and Dropout Prevention Specialist. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own. Join the Community.

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Education Dropout Social Media Laptops 81

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fact, according to a survey , the teachers are nearing breaking points with 75% of them admitting to high-stress levels and a third of educational professionals experiencing mental health issues. All these factors together are adding to the stress levels faced by the teachers.

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Technology eBook Gamification Classroom 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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Dropout Survey Study Report 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

More than one in four university and college faculty nationwide are dissatisfied with their jobs; 70 percent of those have considered a career change, according to a September survey by the course materials provider Cengage, and 29 percent cite what they say is a lack of support from their institutions or a sense of pressure from administrators.

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Case Study Study Dropout Education 103

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says. Nobody noticed.”.

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Dropout Report Policies Data 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to one recent survey, 34 percent of adults have changed or canceled their education plans because of Covid-19. Ninety-seven percent of the alumni we surveyed who have children say it is “likely” or “very likely” that their children will be able to attend college.

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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. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends 101

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Generation Hope, the nonprofit I founded in 2010 to help young parents earn their college degrees while readying their children for kindergarten, conducted a national survey of student parents this spring. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program.

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Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work. The program also benefits teachers.

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Dropout Education System Data 107

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a 22-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, struggles with spotty internet access; her mom’s salary as a grocery store cashier doesn’t allow for extras. Credit: Maria Romo-Gonzalez.

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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. It wasn’t seen as the highest-priority concern.”.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. 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.”

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

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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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 73

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. 63 percent — Percent of business and HR leaders in a recent survey who had trouble filling middle-skills jobs. The researchers estimated that 6.2

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Meanwhile, almost seven in 10 parents said in a survey that they had eliminated colleges from consideration for their children because of the cost. In another survey , only 44 percent of Americans said private, nonprofit universities and colleges are worth what they charge. Baenninger said. The sticker price was untenable.”.

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Dropout Survey Report Strategy 72

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Now you’re an adult, you’re by yourself, you’re responsible for your grades.

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Assessment Report Dropout System 142

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Slightly more than two thirds of work college alumni said in a survey that their alma maters prepared them for their current jobs, compared to 55 percent of private college graduates and 47 percent of public school graduates, according to the Work Colleges Consortium. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Dropout Survey Outcomes Report 72

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. An overwhelming majority of survey respondents (88 percent) said they have a difficult time finding teaching materials for their students. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Students planning to enroll at community colleges are in many cases just starting their applications, sometimes without access to the internet at home. Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home. Photo: AP /Rick Bowmer.

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises 104

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? A stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey. “I

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Education Policies System Survey 110

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. Most learners have access to a tablet device, iPad, or some other form of smartphone device, but many don't have physical books at home. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 66

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. At the outset a survey was conducted to assess the needs of schools, families and communities. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services. And 52 of the district’s 59 buildings provide in-school access to mental health services. And I do that with [Stubbe].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A survey by the consulting firm Kognito suggests that faculty don’t always comprehend the problems confronting some of these students. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Training Report Dropout System 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

About half of Dallas College’s students are first-generation; a little more than 20 percent are parents; and about 22 percent are adult learners who are at least 25 with a full-time job,according to self-reported responses and data from a fall 2022 survey.

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Outcomes Report Meeting Study 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Then the admissions counselor showed her something new – MyinTuition , a six-question survey that takes only a few minutes to fill out and predicts with surprising accuracy just how much financial aid a student can anticipate from the college. She loved the place, but not its price tag: $60,000, well beyond her family’s means.

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Dropout Survey Data Smartphone 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth.

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Survey Study Report Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No This story also appeared in USA Today. She was halfway through a two-year associate degree program at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

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Study Report Course Dropout 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The higher employment rate is likely partially attributable to the fact that former special education students are less likely to be spending that time in college; 21 percent of special education students surveyed were enrolled in college compared to 41 percent of general education students.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 91