Digital Promise
AUGUST 10, 2016
NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. Vancouver Public Schools hosted a Girls Lead the Way summer robotics camp at McLoughlin Middle School.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2023
In upstate South Carolina, automotive industries have replaced the once thriving textile mills as a dominant force in the region, paving the way for a growing demand for highly skilled workers in engineering and robotics. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
Megan Nickels, PedsAcademy founder, helps Ella Greene build a robotic version of her dog. Last November, toward the end of Ella’s year of treatment, PedsAcademy opened at the hospital, bringing virtual reality field trips, robots and math lessons that didn’t feel like school. “I Eve Edelheit for The New York Times.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2019
Indeed, hundreds of millions of students, educators, and researchers in more than 200 countries and territories have access to education technologies and online curricula running on AWS. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2016
Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. I struggled at first just to keep up.”.
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. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence. District leaders began a search for adaptive and blended learning solutions.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 12, 2021
Raritan also outfitted a dozen smart classrooms — set up with multiple screens, ceiling microphones and robotic cameras — that faculty members use to record lectures for students who can’t get to class, or to hold hybrid classes in which some students are on-site and others remote. So the school used $1.6 Two, frankly, is not enough.
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