The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the early 1990s, Kentucky districts were among those grading student portfolios and assessing performance tasks, instead of standardized tests, and they found themselves on the cutting edge of educational assessment. And not all districts want to do performance-based assessments.

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Dropout Assessment System Policies 77

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. What can that look like?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2017

However, as every district is creating its own assessments, this alone calls the law’s existence into question. It also seems that it could increase the dropout rate, as students couldn’t see any end to retaking courses. A stated reason is always that this will ensure that an A in northern Maine is the same as an A in southern Maine.

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Dropout Report Assessment Course 71

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

These classes also open the door to self-paced personalized learning. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). Intelligent learning platform benefits for K-12 schools. Lower dropout rates.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It

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Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 103

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

As superintendent for Mooresville, Edwards oversaw a digital conversion that incorporated an expansive 1-to-1 computing program, the use of ed tech to personalize learning, and collaboration among educators to produce academic results that won him national recognition, most notably from AASA-The School Superintendents Association.

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Education Company Dropout Policies 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. After giving birth to her son in 2011, Burgos dropped out of her old school when counselors told her that she didn’t have enough credits to pass ninth grade.

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Dropout Policies Report Course 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Bender, data tech lead at Castlemont High School, has found it challenging to assess the home connectivity of some students because they aren’t coming to school often, or at all. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

For the last three years in a row, it has been 97 percent, and the superintendent attributes the whole of that increase to the district’s efforts to personalize learning. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”. And it opened Robins’ eyes.

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Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Secondary 101

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Is anyone interested in taking an assessment today?” Related: Tipping point: Can summit put personalized learning over the top? Related: Massachusetts districts now trade notes on best paths to personalized learning. Dobrin lectures on blood clots and vessels, mapping out diagrams on a whiteboard. Dobrin asks.

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Pearson Personalized Learning Report Course 84

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. The engine will also assess the outcomes of such interventions—information that will help tailor and improve recommendations over time.

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Dropout Education Data Software 160

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. At the time, teachers wondered if students were really learning or just remembering long enough to get the reward.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

The reasons for going to college is a more specific group of words, but also misunderstood (see the college dropout rate, which is somehow attributed to lack of “prep” instead of the high cost or dubious utility of many college classes). Or learning disabilities. You can fail. “Drop out.” ” Be interviewed.

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Dropout Common Core Analysis Data 40

techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

The merger combines leading formative assessment and data platforms (Illuminate Education, IO Education, SchoolCity and Alpine Achievement) with a leading formative item bank provider (Key Data Systems). Illuminate’s award-winning Education Intelligence Platform consists of a product suite featuring data, analytics, assessments and reporting.

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Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

That evolution has sped up since 2001, when the state introduced a requirement that students pass a statewide assessment (known as the MCAS) to earn a high school diploma. Vocational high schools asked for an exemption from the new rule but the state held firm, forcing those campuses to “step up their academic game,” Driscoll said.

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Study Training Report Industry 81

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 55

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

While other schools adopt different strategies to keep students in class, Bronx Arena, in the Bronx borough of New York City, is betting on close relationships and a personalized academic program to get the job done. Related: Presentations and portfolios take the place of tests for some students. “But I gravitated toward them.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” You take a personal interest,” says Keith. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There are gifted dropouts. By that, the students knew, their teacher meant one of the psychologist Dr. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. Black hat,” Valenti-Barone instructed them, “add a few more details.”.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Jeremiah said that Vaux will be assessed on three metrics: academic performance (as measured by grades and test scores); academic and behavioral improvements over time; and students’ perspectives on the school and what they’re learning.

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Report Digital Divide Groups Social Media 77

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. On the math test that children all over the U.S.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

And perhaps even more worrisome are the outcomes for the children of teenage mothers, who score lower than children of older parents in health, intellectual and behavior assessments.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 135

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” ” Education in the Courts. ” Venture Capital and the Business of Ed-Tech.

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” My most favorite lines simply must be these: “One of the early adopters of Imbellus was McKinsey & Company , the management consulting firm, which uses the scenario assessments to find job candidates. ” LOL, they do?! .

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. This is the part where someone always cites Arthur C. Clarke about any teacher who can be replaced with a computer should be. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55