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.

Dropout 59

Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 59

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.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Grand challenges facing society, like social mobility, sustainability, equity and the preservation of democracy, grow in complexity and urgency each day. We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility.

Education 99

Education Mobility Report Examples 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning.

Dropout 60

Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Widen access for all students regardless of income level or, in many cases, general literacy levels.

Examples 40

Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services. As a result of Say Yes Buffalo partnerships, 11 district schools currently have on-site full-service health clinics; a mobile health clinic program is set to launch next fall. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Dedecker said the No.

Data 98

Data Secondary System Accessibility 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.” The researchers estimated that 6.2 million jobs were at risk of degree inflation. trillion in outstanding student loan debt. “My

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? MOOC dropouts are a real issue - at the Open University we''ve known for a long time that students really require a lot of support if they are to succeed. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. I think it is easy to be snobbish about MOOCs.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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Policies 110

Policies Report Trends Mobility 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race. Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? colleges favor the rich.

Education 112

Education Policies System Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

Report 111

Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. The bed dominates the room, and a crooked “home sweet home” plaque hangs on the wall. A lone window allows in little light.

Report 111

Report Elementary Study Conference 111

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.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Girls score 16 percent better than boys in A-Levels, the standardized exams generally required to get into British universities, the British Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reports. For another, girls do better in school. It says that gap, too, is widening. And poor white boys do the worst of all.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. Intuitively, teachers and parents know that it’s much harder to improve a person’s academic trajectory later in life.

Dropout 120

Dropout Study Groups Report 120

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. District leaders began a search for adaptive and blended learning solutions. 1:1 devices for students was the first step to digital conversion and raising grad rates.

Classroom 54

Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 54

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. Not all colleges are being heaped with praise, however, and the contrasts are striking.

Laptops 145

Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees.

Course 92

Course Report Strategy System 92

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

The survey by Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice included student parents at 171 two-year and 56 four-year institutions, many of whom are poor and people of color and are looking for the promise of economic mobility a college education once provided.

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups System 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

the trauma for many continued, as the Trump administration separated families in detention centers where cells were sometimes kept frigid, food was inadequate and kids were not given access to basic hygiene. When the children reached the U.S., Related: After a hate crime, a town welcomes immigrants into its schools.

Elementary 144

Elementary Report Exercises Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Yael Benvenuto Ladin, a recent graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio, is working to improve access to abortions for young people who live in states where the procedures would be banned or significantly limited if the Supreme Court overturns Roe, effectively removing the federal right to a legal abortion.

Accessibility 26

Accessibility Training Policies Report 26

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : NYC schools Chancellor Richard “Carranza unveils capital plan with $750 million in fixes for disability access.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” No evidence yet that mobile computing harms pigeons so your children are safe, I’m sure.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

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. ECOT refuses to pay.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55