EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

If we overlay this data with a recent Gallup Poll of one million students, half of which reported feeling disengaged at school, we connect the dots to the loss of autonomy and input as a consequence of our push for accountability. With research from the U.S.

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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. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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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. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. Credit: Mateusz Haruza.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Then, after the school received an innovation grant in February, they reached out to feeder schools to identify 8th-grade students who performed well in logic, critical thinking and showed interest in information technology. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The United States is notoriously ineffective at retraining workers who’ve been displaced by outsourcing and technological change, and it invests just 0.03 It turns out the data on older students is imperfect, but here are some numbers we do know: Of the 12.1 percent of GDP on training people, compared with Denmark’s 0.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

His flow of customers had fallen to a 10-year low , down more than 20 percent since 2015. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Business was flagging. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education. Along with nursing, other high-demand I-BEST job pathways include aeronautics, manufacturing and information technologies. Related: Many community college students near earn a degree.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 10, 2015

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. It was therefore with great anticipation that delegates at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, gathered to hear her speak.

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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. These interactive sessions on future technology trends will present key issues faced by information professionals and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing. Most other states, including Massachusetts, aren’t making such a leap.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. 1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Teacher unions cautiously endorse it, while flagging the concern that teachers could be replaced by technology. Technology is a big part of the personalized learning story. Software can also integrate student data into teacher programs to help them track progress in ways unthinkable several years ago. What can that look like?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent. The teachers also identified a strong ally. “He Call me up.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Hopey Fink, a lawyer at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, said, “We suspect that there is an attempt to obscure and euphemize the suspension data that’s kind of embedded in part of this” in order to evade accountability. Without formal data, we can’t speak to that directly and address that problem, and it’s a huge issue.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall. million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Proportion who had confidence in higher education in 2015: 57 percent. While not all states measure college-going in the same way or have data for the same years, some have also seen declines much higher than the national average. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. “We Ending Social Promotion.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent of students in the class of 2015 graduated, compared with 82.3 Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images. This story was originally published by the Education Writers Association and reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Indeed, despite the buzz around personalized learning, there’s no simple recipe for success, and the common ingredients — such as adaptive-learning technology and student control over learning — can backfire if poorly implemented. Summit’s Basecamp is far from the only personalized-learning effort out there, but it’s among the most ambitious.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Santos Enrique Camara, who dropped out of Shoreline Community College in 2015, prepares food at Capers + Olives, Friday, March 24, 2023, in Everett, Wash. grade-point average. I gave it my all.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. Gist: Our goal is to be the first state to fully blend technology into all schools. A similar dynamic continues to play out across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Approximately 250,000 students were enrolled in the 155 Puerto Rican institutions that received federal financial aid in the fall of 2015, according to our analysis of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs. The entire U.S.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences ,” says Edsurge.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

VR “comes of age,” says Campus Technology. ” Via Campus Technology : “New Education Think Tank Debuts, Offering Online News and Research.” The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. Via Techcrunch : “ Duolingo brings Tinycards to the web.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

“ Andrew Ng Wants a New ‘New Deal’ to Combat Job Automation ,” said MIT Technology Review. I explored what can happen to student data under these circumstances in the previous article in this series ; I will turn to what can happen to faculty data and academic freedom in the next one.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Department of Education this week released new federal loan data showing that 4.6 ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.”

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