eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those learning remotely from afar are classified as enrolled and are not among these empty seats.)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the years, the girl, who is now 15, was suspended at least five times, by Hatten’s count — until the coronavirus pandemic brought a halt to in-school learning. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again. This story also appeared in The Nation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 19th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. with Vinayadhar Raju, ZPHS Jangapally 1:00 PM - Helping Students Graduate: Tools & Strategies to Lower the Number of School Dropouts & Raise Graduation Rates with Franklin P. The day's sessions are below.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. When Daisy Lopez began at UC Riverside in the fall of 2020, she and her family had just been evicted and were homeless.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

I wanted to take [the class] just to like, push myself and to further my education, and also to get ready for college,” he said. When education went online, she struggled to get into contact with students and help them meet college application and financial aid deadlines. Jake agreed. “I racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The maker industry is projected to grow to more than $8 billion by 2020, and with the maker movement infiltrating classrooms, after-school clubs and homes, it’s no wonder. Maker culture is going mainstream. But where is the maker movement strongest? Next page: How many projects are focused on the classroom?).

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creating a Framework for Innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Over the past seven years, through the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), those institutions have innovated together, scaled what works, held each other accountable and shared everything they’ve learned. Along the way, we’ve learned some hard-earned lessons. Higher education has to get comfortable with trial and error.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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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. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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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. You don’t have to have a dime in your pocket and you can get your education.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. Credit: NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

These barriers include the cost of higher education, the disproportionate debt Black students and families take on and the discrimination and lack of belonging many Black students experience at college. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. It is learning support at exactly the right time you need it to be successful,” said Vicki P. It helped out a lot.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One of the coolest and simultaneously heartbreaking things to see was that right around March-April 2020, interest in becoming a volunteer with Teen Link just skyrocketed,” said Zanny Shehata, Teen Link’s volunteer coordinator. Plenty of students are willing to take on these roles. Right now, the line has 58 teen volunteers — 18 of them new.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Educators typically loathe the idea of denying anyone an opportunity to learn, which is what happens in a randomized controlled trial. Even rarer in education is a replication of this kind of experiment to see if something works in a different setting. The Ohio result was statistically similar.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Across the U.S., for example, some 1. Across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. He says the university’s quality of education has declined, leaving the campus with “a crisis on our hands.” offered an affordable, quality education. That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. As a student at Dartmouth in 2020, Sanat Mohapatra launched a mental health peer support app called Unmasked, which kept students connected when the pandemic sent them home. She believes mental health education should be required.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators. Something tells me that a loose projector hanging from the ceiling was not what Thomas Edison imagined when he proclaimed that motion picture would transform our education system.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. Your stories. Read the stories. Few speak up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Enrollment for low-income high school grads dropped 29 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020, compared with a 17 percent decline for students from more affluent families. Without a college education, they are much less likely to escape poverty. They may also question the value of postsecondary education. And the U.S.

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