The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning. Credit: Juawana Allen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. 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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” . Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. This [place] gives you the opportunity to graduate faster,” he said.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. We’re literally learning as we go along. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 79

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

What have we learned that can make a difference for the next folks coming through?” In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” I can’t believe we were doing that to students, adding that extra barrier,” she says. What are the lessons here?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Joe Bower @ joe_bower Joe Bower began inspiring me several years ago when I came across his blog, " For the Love of Learning " where he shares his distaste of grading and blogs and his admiration for the work of Alfie Kohn. I was shocked when I learned he was taken from us too soon and too young as a result of an unexpected, heart attack.

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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. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Making changes gradually.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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Dropout Trends Data Study 55

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). DeMillo traces a struggle in American universities between practical learning and liberal education, starting with the Morrill Act ( 1862 ) and Columbia University’s reinvention of the undergraduate curriculum (1126 et al).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. But it left an impression. “My

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A student at a Massachusetts private college learns midway through a semester that his financial aid is less than he expected. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt. Lots of these trivial things that occur.”. These are not the only costs that bother Sanchez.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? But the University of Maine at Presque Isle (or UMPI) is one of the first public universities in the nation to use proficiency-based learning. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 86

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The teachers also learned that there are a handful of family members in the household, including Johnathan, his mother, a sister and an infant relative. We’re coming to build a relationship with you because we know that you’re an expert on how your child learns, and we as educators can learn a lot from you.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Then, my counselor talked to me a little bit, and she transferred me out to engineering since I told her that I liked learning how things work and designing things. The library is old — and it kind of stinks. I don’t think this kid needs ELL classes anymore. I think he’s ready to go.” My grandpa was the general of the Cambodian army.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. I love my teachers; they made me learn,” Elliott said. And I love the people that went to Carver.

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School. A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

To learn more about the problems facing working learners, I visited Dr. Anne Eipe, a psychologist at my college, California State University, Northridge. Your boss is more likely to be flexible about your schedule, you’ll have more time to go to the library to study or get homework done and you won’t have to actually leave the campus.

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Study Report Libraries System 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 103

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Eliot The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. National Library Week.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Clifford Hamilton, a lifelong resident of Leslie County and director of the county’s library.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Microsoft Office 365 ?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For a few years the California State University system has had an unusual requirement for professors who win a grant to redesign their courses: They must post a summary and reflection about their teaching in a public Web collection so others can learn from their experiments. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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Classroom ePortfolio Dropout Course 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. He adds, “Differential association—I learned that in one of my criminal theory classes.” He did, and he learned that he could breathe around them—“like an exhale,” he says. Say hi to people!’”

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 116

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. 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. But student fathers say the first step is just reminding people that they exist.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 132

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. Not all colleges are being heaped with praise, however, and the contrasts are striking.

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, a user would have to click on the fine print to learn that the graduation rate for four-year colleges shows the proportion of students who finish in eight years, not in four. Langdell Hall library at Harvard Law School. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency.

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Survey Data Report Dropout 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. She said staff did everything they could to stay in touch with their students, most of whom opted to learn from home, during the school year.

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Kaplan Report Policies Laptops 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

New additions to the already-amazing guest schedule are Henry Eyring on The Innovative University , Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age , and Cable Green on "public funding should equal openly-licensed resources."

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Moodle Dropout Adobe Education 37

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. because of climate change, and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from the learning setbacks that come with them. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. ” said John King, a former U.S.

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