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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

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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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

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Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Missing just two days of school per month has been tied to lower reading proficiency in third grade, lower math scores in middle school and higher dropout rates in high school. Our kids have the answer,” Martinez-McGraw said.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I A new networking group for community college program coordinators held its first call in February.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

The Hechinger Report

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. Completion rates are even worse for particular groups of students.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. In recent years, a movement against teaching “critical race theory” and the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty have galvanized white parents to target Black educators and literature that centers Black characters. .

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This can help to develop listening skills, awareness of other points of view, and a better understanding of the text.