Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” “It’s crucial to recognize that students are makers and producers of content,” Alexander states. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. He’s definitely turned around. There definitely are some [teachers I trust] and there’s definitely some that I would not. It was definitely a shift.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. In this series, The Hechinger Report examines racial inequity in gifted classes and what schools are doing to fix it. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Despite a century of research, definitions of giftedness are fuzzy. There are gifted dropouts.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report. Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. We have synergy.”

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Report Elementary Secondary Classroom 106

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. “If Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. Forty percent?

How To 38

How To Education Social Media Dropout 38

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says. . Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade. Her students seemed less ambivalent.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. Rural fourth- and eighth-graders do, in fact, score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students, on average, and just as well as suburban ones, the U.S. Department of Education reports. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report.

E-rate 91

E-rate Report Dropout Course 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 135