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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

Now, Chromebook is the device of choice. We have 11,000 students in Putnam County, and we have about 8,500 Chromebooks today. That being said, we’re lucky to have Chromebooks in the classroom, but we make sure everybody understands that personalized learning is just not dealing with technology. That gave us the opportunity to.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Last school year she taught to a Chromebook, filled with dark squares where kids’ faces ought to have been. “I The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Some kids went months and months without Chromebooks; others never logged on at all. “We

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty. In the early days of the pandemic, every Chromebook on campus was lent out to students during remote learning. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. War, peace and Chromebooks. On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. points higher.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. War, peace and Chromebooks. On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Don’t start with the app.”.

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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

From August when we started training 150ish teachers in Cohort 1, to deploying over 8000 Chromebooks to students 6-12 grade in October and November. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. I wrote last year about the 5 year contract we signed with Marysville School District and the work the team and I would be doing there.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. The siblings logged on for the remainder of the school year.