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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

Synchronous components of hybrid courses also provide an opportunity for instructors to better ensure students are meeting listening and speaking standards embedded within Idaho Core Standards. But don’t take solely our word for it—hear how the students responded. TEACHERS KNOW BEST, 2015.

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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

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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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance. Its founder and CEO, Joanna Smith, says “there is a lot of natural synergy between [Bergman’s] work on low-cost, scalable interventions and our goal to improve student engagement and attendance.”

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

School is open year-round, allowing students to continue their studies throughout the summer. Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge. When they first arrive, 60 percent of Altus students are behind on credits. This is not an online school where we don’t see kids.”.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, on state tests, the school tends to track with the district average, despite having higher percentages of ELLs and low-income students, who might be expected to fall short. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Few speak up. The effects are showing up in test scores.

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How Writing Down Specific Goals Can Empower Struggling Students

MindShift

Today she is a doctoral student and one of Peterson’s main research assistants. In an early study at McGill University in Montreal, the course showed a powerful positive effect with at-risk students, reducing the dropout rate and increasing academic achievement. ” Copyright 2015 NPR. But zeroes are deadly.”