Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator. Let’s start a movement.

EdTech 298

EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 298

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes.

Policies 81

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. she said, because her family was having to move from motel to motel.

Dropout 105

Dropout Policies Data Report 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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Study Data Report Elementary 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Study Report Course Dropout 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. It feels like they made this policy and then we weren’t given any additional resources or anything.”.

Policies 142

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 142