Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That behavior seems to be headed for the history books. A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. In the “old days”—ten years ago—those of us in the boomer generation would expect young people to suck it up and eventually do things the “old way.” It's not working."

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Social Media Dropout Training Smartphone 121

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pandemic era’s wide-scale disruption also makes it a good time to consider changing long-held educational practices, said Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan who is co-writing a book about new ways of assessing students and has tried some in his own classes.

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Assessment Report Dropout System 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ?

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Education Policies System Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The chapter of his book devoted to gun violence and gun control is particularly compelling. The home of Southwire, a large company producing electrical cabling and wire, Carrolton started a program called 12 for Life designed to boost the high school graduation rate.

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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 67

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

In addition to better collaboration and communication throughout the university, there are a number of edtech companies out there that synthesize the process for you. The university library is not an antiquated vessel of reference books, but a hub of innovators striving to make resources available to all of today’s diverse college students.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

An education technology company called Course Hero surveyed students last month about their financial needs; among the more than 14,000 who responded, rent and food were nearly tied for first place. His dad’s company cut his hours and slashed his pay to minimum wage, Abrena said, with no guarantee of how long he would stay employed.

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Study Survey Course Company 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Keith Perrigan, Bristol superintendent, said that the school district is inundated by education companies selling social-emotional learning strategies. He knows enough to be cautious.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 177

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM,” said Nathan Levenson, a former CEO of a crane-manufacturing company and later a school superintendent in Massachusetts. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company. Students are asked to fold two standard 8.5-by-11-inch Algebra I is the air you breathe to be in STEM.”

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STEM Report Course Study 128

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. In the book I took Boyer''s 1990 categorisation of scholarship as being discovery, integration, application and teaching, and demonstrated how each of these scholarly functions could be transformed by digital scholarship. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)?

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. The program is research-based, said Lynette Guastaferro, chief executive officer of ERM’s parent company, Teaching Matters.

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How To Training Report Dropout 43

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was concerned and afraid of what might happen to her, but you cannot cut their wings,” said Aranda, an operations manager for a talent supply chain company. Most evenings after work he hits the books in pursuit of an associate’s degree in business administration. When Alexis accepted an offer from St.

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Report Study Groups Video 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

DALLAS — It’s not uncommon for college students to work to save money for everything from books to spring break vacations. The companies select them,” Sorrell said. Participants from the college’s Summer Bridge program traditionally leave their mark on campus in the school colors of black, purple and gold. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow.

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Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Lynette Tannis, author of a book about educating incarcerated youth and an adjunct professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, said she sees more examples of what shouldn’t be happening in juvenile justice facilities than examples to celebrate.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 65

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. I’ll never be back in a place like this again, because I’m closer to being ready for a job as a border patrol officer.”

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Dropout Assessment 159

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

I’m working currently on a book about why people choose college. Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to the company.) Over a million students drop out of college each year. But the collective cost is significant. As Nathan D.

Dropout 89

Dropout Policies Report Study 89

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Her years of assembly line work at Ford left her with debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome, but Perez said she wanted to make it back to the company — off the assembly line, as a manager.

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Dropout Laptops Study Report 108

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. Barentine, a single mother, hasn’t been around as much as she would like to help to coach Hayden through his difficulties.

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The trend has been propelled by some public universities’ attempts to compensate for budget cuts by luring higher-income and out-of-state students with newer (and more expensive) housing, and by a separate, little-noticed phenomenon of pricey off-campus student apartments being built by private real estate-investment companies.

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Policies Dropout Study Trends 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. But now, I love school math, because I’m learning better.”. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

This is classism and racism at the worst and most profound level,” said Brier, co-author of the new book Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education. Presidents of flagship universities argue that their institutions have a huge economic impact on their states by creating the most graduates and startup companies.

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Policies Dropout Analysis Trends 73

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. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

Education 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report Federal funds paid for a private company to run an afterschool academic recovery program at El Coquí this school year. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout. We’ve never seen such a need in the history of Puerto Rico,” he said. “We

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Elementary Report Dropout System 102

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A new book makes “ The Case Against Education.” Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. It’s decidedly not something to give to a high-school junior looking to get into college.

Dropout 84

Dropout Data Training Secondary 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

California students spend an average of $2,020 a month, or $18,180 per nine-month academic year , on food, housing, books, supplies and transportation, a survey released in September by the California Student Aid Commission, or CSAC, found. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. This year, Gov.

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. “ Do Medical Schools Still Need Books?

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” The company has raised $16.5 The digital clicker company has raised $49.4 Top Hat has raised $7.5

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Tressie McMillan Cottom on her new book on for-profits , Lower Ed , and on credentialing and inequality in a Q&A with Inside Higher Ed. Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Go, School Sports Team!

Education 46

Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Really looking forward to this new testing company though! million total. million total.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Tressie McMillan Cottom’s new book on for-profit higher ed reviewed by The New York Times. .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law. She made $9.6 ” Contests.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“Dear Mrs. Trump” by Liz Phipps Soeiro – why the librarian refused the books the First Lady sent to her school. Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.). From the HR Department.

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” I’ve got Joshua Hunt’s new book The University of Nike sitting here on my desk. Here he is in The New York Times : “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: College Athletics and Its Corporate Sponsors.”

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60