The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The students in this grade level remained her toughest. “My

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

If you use Google Classroom , you can have parents sign up for notifications (emails) about whether or not assignments have been completed by their child. You can post lessons, photos, calendar availability, link surveys using Google Forms, and much more. I am an advocate for building and nurturing relationships with families.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

He recently visited a fourth-grade classroom and spoke with two boys who were looking at a Google satellite image of a neighborhood and designing a new development, with houses, trees and streets drawn onto their new map. “How can a kid aspire to a career if he doesn’t know it even exists?” Hidalgo said. This helps kids find their why.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. Increasingly, bootcamps are discovering that it takes more than new financing options , job promises and teaching hard technical skills to enable graduates to succeed.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2019

More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. Data source: [link] Map created by Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report using Google charts. The default rates haven’t improved much.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Members made about 600 calls to parents and students to check in on well-being, ask about obstacles to learning and provide technical support on tools like Google Classrooms and Zoom.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

High school dropout is a label I’m thankful to tear off me as a person,” said Jeremy Ward during his graduation speech. Some come back to school at a fourth-grade level, while others are just a few credits short of graduating from their original high school. I never thought I’d see the day, I’m not gonna lie” said Antoine Marigny.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. Related: From Google ads to NFL sponsorships: Colleges throw billions at marketing themselves to attract students.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

Researchers have failed again and again to show that students using computers in classrooms will improve test scores, lift graduation rates, and reduce dropouts. You can find me on Twitter (@jrsowash), Google+, Linkedin (jrsowash), and YouTube (jrsowash). The third error they make is to indulge in magical thinking.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. 4 million Google searches. By comparison, the outside world must seem like a playground of self-expression and creativity. If this imbalance isn’t a cause for concern among educators, it should be. 277,000 tweets.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+). It may be a matter of what kind of expectations you’re bringing to your evaluation.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Last week at a training that Kim and I were facilitating for Cohort 2 (the next 150 teachers) a math teacher said to me, “I’ve started using Google Forms and ‘Flipping’ my class, but other than that I’m not doing much.”. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. This is not just some courses that you do to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. Every school had their individual Google spreadsheet, and there wasn’t a unifying place where any of us could look.”. Like, we had no idea.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Why, with interest in critical race theory spiking, and research that both complements and critiques it dating back decades, is publicly available information about it so often limited to an incomplete Wikipedia page discovered on a Google search?

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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. One group typed “France” into the Google search bar, another browsed search results for “domestic peace.”. Billings assigned each group of three a different aspect of peace studies to research.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play. See blog posts/transcripts for all episodes. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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MindShift

APRIL 2, 2015

As they each researched their own part, they kept a shared Google doc with information they were finding, sharing relevant research with one another when appropriate. One of the hardest parts of the assignment was taking research and framing it in ways that would be useful for their claims, Zack said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

A goal of the Spring Summit is to provide a forum to discuss ways to prepare for your personal and organization’s future. Register for free today at [link]. This is done through the development of skills in ICT, employable skills as well as entrepreneurship. This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. One group typed “France” into the Google search bar, another browsed search results for “domestic peace.”. Billings assigned each group of three a different aspect of peace studies to research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the past few years, Apple, Google, IBM and other high-profile companies have stripped the bachelor’s degree requirement from many of their positions. A growing number of businesses are listening. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” Twenty years ago, Google did not exist. At almost $1.3 trillion , student loans are the single largest debt obligation category in the United States aside from mortgages. Anecdotally, this makes sense. Fifteen years ago, Facebook was not around.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Google Classroom ? The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Google Classroom ? Google voice typing ? Read & Write for Google ? Various Google Chrome extensions ? Microsoft Office 365

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them. When students don’t sign in via Google meetings, Glick sends them silly questions just to make sure they check in, such as: “What would you get if a Zombie bit a Vampire?”. Will we get yearbooks?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. By and large, we haven’t figured out a way for pod leaders to connect directly with teachers so that they can really have a more informed sense other than being on Google Classroom and knowing what the assignments are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. She denies making this request and says she sought legal help to get them back into school. For the better part of the school year, they tried to learn from home.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Education Revolution Google+ Community The Data Driven Education Trend. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Check out her list here. This is very exciting research!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? Jessica Geremia, a technology trainer for the Chariho Regional School District, in southwestern Rhode Island, told me, “We use Google all the time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. Education Revolution Google+ Community Guidelines for Project Based Learning. Dan Adiletta shares his article, Biggest Technical Headaches of Going 1 to 1 , with the Google+ community -- I''m sure none of you can relate! Learn more here.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

You have to figure out, "How do we attract students in a world where if you Google online education or online bachelor's degrees, there's a lot of people out there?". At most universities as you know, dropout rates in the first term are enormous. What are the functions that Kaplan will be providing? And I am immensely proud of that.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Fines Google $5.1 ” The Google blog post announcing “ Course Kit ,” a tool that will integrate Google Drive with the LMS. Another invocation of Google Map s as a metaphor for student learning data in Edsurge. The Google Empire. Via The New York Times : “ E.U. And the subsequent churnalism.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Google had a big media to-do this week. Via Ars Technica : “Google unveils a $249 smart camera that decides what’s worth photographing.” “ Mattel and Google : a double standard for AI toys?”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” This is my shocked face.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Tagged on: March 2, 2017 Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms | New York Times → With Google products rising in popularity, Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms. Tagged on: March 2, 2017 K-12 Predictive Analytics: Time for a Better Dropout Diagnosis | RealClearEducation → Is this sponsored content?

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