The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. “We were just trying to get through.”. National figures tell a similar tale. racial group. We just weren’t prepared to handle the loss of the school as an internet hub,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

He spent more than one morning at his family’s kitchen table, staring at his laptop, his thoughts frayed. Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. But last week, with the campus closed due to the coronavirus, his refuge and the resources that came with it were suddenly gone.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In a knit cap and long-sleeve raglan T-shirt, Clause was hovering over his laptop in the co-working space that serves as Rivet’s Richmond outpost, not far from the shipyard where women were recruited into service during World War II by a poster featuring the fictitious Rosie the Riveter, from whom the school took its name.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. points higher. “We What changes are ahead?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. To submit your question or vote on our next topic, click here. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. What changes are ahead?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Early college access for later success. For students that fall behind, they can make up lost credits online and catch up to their peers.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

Drawing on the findings, the district produced a “five-ingredient recipe”—positive environments, connections, teaching and learning, student empowerment, and access to support—with each ingredient reflecting the enriched experiences students need to thrive in school and the community.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Perez said she only learned of the school’s laptop loan program through another Latina student — after she’d already purchased a new computer. They were sisters. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. For the better part of the school year, they tried to learn from home.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

New Rochelle teacher Rose has no idea if lack of internet or laptops are the reasons some of her students haven’t gotten in touch, although she suspects that’s sometimes the case. Some have banded together to call for providing internet hotspots and Chromebooks to millions of students who cannot get online or access lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On an unremarkable November morning, Jimmie Conner is hunched over his laptop at a dining table in an open-concept kitchen flooded with light. It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. As students work on their laptops in the common area, teachers come around to work one-on-one with them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Some have not signed in for a single remote class, and many have not picked up the laptops and hotspots offered by Terra Linda. These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Colleges and universities have used much of the federal HEERF money to cover extra costs associated with the pandemic — such as buying more laptops and cleaning equipment, setting up hot spots for students and making up for lost tuition revenue. “After I get her focused, I just say, ‘Ania, you can do this.’ ”. So the school used $1.6

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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. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

work on laptops during class. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”. It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. —

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ”).

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students. ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.”

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