Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Education is complicated. And some of the toughest issues educators face don’t fit neatly into a short article. Sometimes the best insights come by hearing education leaders work through their thoughts or struggle to explain their challenges. High School Dropout. New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Personalized learning is currently emerging as one of the biggest trends in education. So, how can educational institutions offer a personalized learning environment for students without having to divide them into smaller groups based on their interests and level and get a separate teacher for each group? What is personalized learning?

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

Education is just different than it was pre-pandemic—many school leaders think it shouldn’t go back to the way it was before when schools used systems developed in the 20th century. Currently, AASA is looking for demonstration districts to implement their recommendations and transform education. In order to improve U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In some ways, they are — but there’s still a lot to learn from them, says Harvard Graduate School of Education Lecturer Todd Rose. He knows the mindset well; before he was a Harvard professor, he was a high school dropout.

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Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This points to an even greater shift that’s being unfolded in the education industry. To pick up from our previous blog , we are exploring more into the workings of a higher educational institution and it’s efficiency improvement through executable, measurable, strategies. Quality assurance. That is at least till these recent times.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2019

Online tutoring is an option that I and many of my like-minded friends (school teachers, professors, research scholars, professionals, and academicians) love because it ensures us a steady side-income doing what we love – providing educational support to students in the remotest corners of the world. Think about that!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? Paul Tough’s new book deftly explored why standardized test scores like the SAT inevitably tilt elite college admissions towards rich students, as does their ability to pay in full. million donation. Fair admission tests?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. The constantly growing needs of the education sector have added to the pressures of teaching.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 10, 2020

Not only is focus and concentration an issue for kids of any age studying from home, but issues with spotty Internet access or lack of a stable Wi-Fii creates dropouts in audio or video. If that is not possible, find a background with something simple like a desk, some books, a plant or a picture frame.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

While debate about professional development expands, educator hopes for feeling supported are shrinking. If we can’t effectively support our educators then expecting them to reverse the concerning trends of high school dropouts (more than ¼ fail to graduate H.S.), With research from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

The effect of systemic racism and historical oppression on students of color, especially as manifested in the school-to-prison pipeline, is an issue that educators cannot ignore. As a white educator, it is my duty to educate myself and work against this injustice. Related : The future of proficiency-based education.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This includes specific facts, theories, and principles that they have learned in past educational experiences or through personal pursuits.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers. They moved special education classrooms to be more centrally located. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Her answer: Users or educators need only request their Standards be added and it can be done quickly. Educational Applications. The education community is not like the business world. Insider Tips.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” It’s more balanced that the introduction and chapter 1.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Even with his impressive list of accomplishments, Elliott worried that his education would be derailed. “I Related: From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration. Educators can change this,” she said. Educators can change this.”. But my school had my back.”.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

I''m a big supporter of educational technology. To this end I have begun to read and follow several critics of educational technology. He is quick to call out the assumptions that many educators make regarding the use of technology in the classroom. I''ve put one of his books The Shallows , on my reading list for this summer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2016

That one educator that they really clicked with and that had a lasting influence even years later. It’s not just a matter of their grades, although high school dropouts are much more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. It’s one of the most difficult, yet rewarding, jobs because of the profound impact teachers can have on students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

British author and speaker Sir Ken Robinson is known for several accomplishments, from his books to his professorships to his TED talks. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college. Honestly, we know what works in education, and what doesn’t,” he said. “We

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. Please tell me about the motivation behind your first SAT prep book. McGraw-Hill noticed was I was doing and offered me a book deal. How did the idea to propose your book and courses to the Sharks arise?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. Everything seems to be on the table right now.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. 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. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Higher Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Thank you, Pam for your time and wisdom and I hope everyone has enjoyed this four-part series with a truly remarkable educator. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Vicki: So, educators, we’ve gotten so many great thoughts here. I’ll shelve books. Vicki: Yeah.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Some experts think institutions of higher education—not former students—are partly to blame. Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Despite a hot economy, millions of young people are stranded without work and are not continuing their education beyond high school. For those of us involved with education reform, workforce development or HR, that’s no surprise. That behavior seems to be headed for the history books. It's not working."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2013

Join me Wednesday, April 17th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski on their new book, Leaving to Learn : How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates. From the book''s description :) "It''s an alarming fact: in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

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. As educators in Nevada, we are always hearing negative noise about the district where we work. In order to do this, I tapped into the valuable resources available to educators free online.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Grawe’s forecasts for the number of students at two-year community colleges and four-year institutions are published in his book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education , with updates on his website. ” Related: Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

There we got the chance to learn what was on the hearts and minds of educators—some who are just beginning their personalized learning journey and others grappling with new challenges that have emerged from years of implementation. The shift towards student-centric can be hard for schools at first. Snowy Peaks High School in Dillon, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. Department of Education in 1980. Much of what you hear about education is a lie, he argues.

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