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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. How far we’ve come is wonderful, so having to take some steps back is definitely frustrating.”. How far we’ve come is wonderful, so having to take some steps back is definitely frustrating.”

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. They develop learning experiences that incorporate demonstrations of learning and mastery.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

This is not an online school where we don’t see kids.”. Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge. But Altus administrators believe that their formula — using online learning without sacrificing one-on-one interactions between students and teachers — works.

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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

First, it’s worth noting that talking about the middle class can be tricky because there’s no universal definition. By Pew’s measure, roughly equal shares of Americans have been moving from middle to upper income status as have been falling into the lower income tier, but using a narrower definition of middle class paints a grimmer picture.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

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. Other students faced barriers of access. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

The Hechinger Report

Instead of enrolling, for example, they might subscribe to college; for a monthly fee, they could take whatever courses they want, when they want, with long-term access to advising and career help. In fact, he said, “It’s definitely more engaging, because you’re actively involved with what’s going on.”.

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