EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. Forty-two percent say it happens in classrooms. What can parents do?

Dropout 100

Dropout Smartphone Tablets Report 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers. ” High school dropout rates, workplace readiness, and inter-generational trends reflect a vicious cycle.

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Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 57

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

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. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” ” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.”

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Education Company Data Report 47