The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

In Philadelphia, 49 percent of students who graduated from public high schools matriculated to a college or university, a number that does not account for the 19 percent pushout or dropout rate of students who did not graduate from high school. Driving that overall inequity is the inequity in funding.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. He described a similar policy of gradually escalating discipline and said he considers suspension in response to poor attendance a last resort.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Retention is not a policy unknown. Students who are retained don’t do any better academically in the long run but they do have a significantly higher risk of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

More than 60 percent of the students at a shuttered campus became college dropouts, adding to the large pool of U.S. As of February 2022, only about a third of the 47 percent of students who succeeded in transferring to another campus completed a degree or a credential. adults who have student loans and no degree.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 20, 2019

School attendance has become a point of focus in educational reform in recent years, as research has indicated that chronic absenteeism is a predictor of poor academic performance and higher dropout rates. The students came from a range of urban, suburban, and rural districts.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

South Dakota, home to nine tribes collectively known as the Great Sioux Nation, is one of dozens of states that have recently adopted or introduced laws or policies that take aim at critical race theory, commonly known as CRT. Educators are very fearful on how to even start that discussion, much less continue to teach it in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University. Many of these Black students are staying in college and earning degrees.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. Standardized curricula, standardized tests and standardized policies don’t respond to the needs of all students. And dropout rates will become a thing of the past. One of these is the slow adaptation to the new world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters. Federal higher-ed policy isn’t helping either. And that was before the coronavirus crisis. But don’t take our word for it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

It’s absolutely bad news,” said Patrick Lane, vice president of WICHE’s policy analysis and research unit. Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It’s a bigger decline than was expected. Those are likely to be worse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

As a result, dropout rates are down, high school graduation rates are up and the number of students successfully transferring from the community colleges to the public university has more than tripled.

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Education Dropout Policies Mobility 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Among teachers who transferred between schools, lack of planning time (65 percent), too heavy a workload (60 percent), problematic student behavior (53 percent), and a lack of influence over school policy (52 percent) were cited by the U.S. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Baltimore has now established a partnership framework aligned with district policies and priorities and a rubric for evaluating partners. Schools have also created “parent cafes” where parents can discuss non-academic issues in a safe environment without being judged. Expanding Family and Community Engagement Programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says.

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Dropout Course Education Policies 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Research indicates that this kind of learning opportunity has a lifelong impact: It can help reduce dropout rates, increase on-time graduation rates and help “students apply and extend classroom learning,” according to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE). Our shared future depends on it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Sixty-one percent of student fathers drop out of college without degrees, compared to 48 percent of student mothers, the women’s policy research institute finds.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Education Commission of the States, a Colorado-based education policy research center, has named Gov. Since 1965, state governors have served as chair of the ECS, which attempts a bipartisan approach to education policy research and consulting. Phil Bryant as chair-elect. Bryant will replace outgoing chairman Gov. 5 Facebook post.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. Only 43 colleges out of 1,669 reviewed in a study by the Educational Policy Institute had a graduation rate of over 90 percent. Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to the company.) Over a million students drop out of college each year.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

The Watch reports that, of the 93 students enrolled at ABLE at the start of the 2015-2016 school year, just 12 remained until the end of the year, a steep dropout rate. The National Education Policy Center penned a similar report. Oklahoma is one of many states investigating and castigating virtual charters.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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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.

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Dropout Education Study Classroom 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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Education Dropout Accessibility Survey 109

MindShift

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Over and over the data shows racial bias in the country’s classrooms has lead to lost instructional time, dropouts and often incarceration. Zero-tolerance policies arose out of fears about increasing school violence in the 1980s. The legacy of those early policies are felt in very different ways now.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 25, 2019

During the hearing I talked about the importance of early literacy, discussed the components of a comprehensive early literacy policy and highlighted success stories in Alabama’s neighboring states. In fact, research shows that nearly 90 percent of high school dropouts were struggling readers in third grade.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

When a charter can choose only top-performing students through selective admission or else cull under-performing students through arbitrary zero-tolerance behavior policies, they can better control the students that ultimately matriculate. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

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Dropout Elementary Policies Mobility 66

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Cure Violence’s senior director of science and policy Charles Ransford explains it, you have to address problems including PTSD, drug use and trauma before a student can sit in a classroom. Convincing these young dropouts to give school another try can be challenging, Caldeira said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes. A good story goes a long way, and issues often rise or fall on the policy agenda as much on the basis of stories as on hard evidence. It’s a puzzling policy argument. What a brilliant stroke!

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