The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

In Texas — where the energy system failed those who depend on it — and elsewhere, our infrastructure is only as good as the technology that supports it. Initiatives like these will help us boost skills-training efforts across the country and could help raise the profile of lesser-known, critical and in-demand jobs in the IT industry.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Such sessions could be offered online by using technology capabilities acquired during the pandemic. We can move more expeditiously.

Industry 103

Industry Policies Accessibility Report 103

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. Usually, when new hires succeed, so does the company.

Adobe 100

Adobe Dropout Company Training 100

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. Today’s youth culture lives in apps—not for the sake of the technology itself, but for the rich social, psychological identity-driven mash-up that define a person, group, interactions and opinions.

Social Media 117

Social Media Dropout Training Smartphone 117

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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Report Dropout Education Outcomes 124

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Report Dropout System Company 114

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. Creating access where it doesn’t exist today and hasn’t existed for many people ever is going to be crucial in the recovery.”.

Survey 138

Survey Laptops Dropout Report 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. He was 40 years old.

Dropout 124

Dropout Survey Study Report 124

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He could make cuts, but that was complicated in his industry, and would likely only speed the downward spiral. 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. Will there be more?

Dropout 71

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 71

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

But this scenario is based on technology already development. The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday.

Course 103

Course Pearson Accessibility Company 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. You’re talking about an industry that believes in marginal change. Kristin Tichenor, vice president for enrollment, Wentworth Institute of Technology. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

Report 102

Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a labor market analysis firm. Degree inflation.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Shanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler. P-TECH Brooklyn is a partnership among IBM, the New York City public school system and the New York City College of Technology (City Tech). Subscribe today! We don’t have the anxiety that these new freshmen students have.

Industry 59

Industry Social Media Trends Report 59

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

And technology, Freeland Fisher writes in “Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ Networks,” can be a powerful tool in that effort. Schools can use technology to help level the playing field by expanding all students’ networks. Networks matter. Exposure is enough. Exposure is enough.

Robotics 80

Robotics Report Personalized Learning Study 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

and we fail to create either the human or technological capital necessary to meet oncoming needs. We structure everything we do in schools and departments through a 20th century scientific management model that has led to the current industrial school approach permeating all that education is today. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

Industry 50

Industry Dropout Policies System 50

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My excitement was palpable given that this fancy piece of technology was (and is) a luxury for most educators. My SMART board’s projector was hanging on by a single screw, much like any hope that this fancy technology would improve my teaching and instruction.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Early college access for later success. In Enlarged City School District of Middletown (N.Y.),

Industry 40

Industry Broadband Course Elementary 40

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students.

Dropout 156

Dropout Education Data Software 156

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. I think the whole industry is going to have to do this.”. Related: The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students.

Dropout 0

Dropout Libraries Study Report 0

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. When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington State to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost. grade-point average.

Panasonic 144

Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Of those, only a handful require instruction on how to use or access contraception, according to data gathered by SIECUS , an organization that promotes comprehensive sexual health education policies. And among those who do work, most do manual labor or work in the fast food industry. according to teachers here.

Kaplan 111

Kaplan Report Policies Laptops 111

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. There are no exceptions to this.” We use Google all the time.

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via Education Week : “In hurricanes ’ aftermath, technology eases return to school.” ” Campus Technology with the latest robot predictions (a.k.a. Technology, Education, and the Media.”

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” National) Education Politics. ” This is my shocked face. .”

Education 45

Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. At stake: "technology companies have long used to hook students on their brands for life."

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” $100,000. .” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.” That’s UC Berkeley. David Kernohan responds.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

Report 71

Report Dropout Survey System 71

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Apple , as always, helps us see how criticism-free technology journalism can be. Via Campus Technology : “ Learning Objects Debuts Competency-Based Education Platform.” Microsoft is doing a desktop PC thing.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40