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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. Eighty-eight percent (88) of 13-17-year-olds have access to cellphones. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year.

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OPINION: Using prime baseball season to strike out summer learning loss

The Hechinger Report

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.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

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The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Most learners have access to a tablet device, iPad, or some other form of smartphone device, but many don't have physical books at home. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K. programs, and that’s a three-year model that’s automatically a quarter less expensive.”.

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Professor hopes his quickie calculator will show low-income students they can afford a selective college

The Hechinger Report

During college fairs or campus visits, a college representative using MyInTuition can hand a student a smartphone or a tablet, allowing him or her to input familiar household income information and receive a likely financial-aid estimate on the spot. “I I have a Ph.D. in economics, I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. 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.