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 ?

Education 110

Education Policies System Survey 110

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). We reach further back in history here, following the track of DeMillo’s previous book Abelard To Apple. Another online learning antecedent/alternative appears: Columbia Video Network (1186). What do you make of it?

MOOC 40

MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning. Since it’s online, teachers don’t notice you’re struggling,” she said. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P.

STEM 126

STEM Report Course Study 126

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. As to whether it''s a good thing or not, I''ve just written a whole book exploring some of this in The Battle for Open , so it''s difficult to say in a short answer.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I just like reading and diving into different books, and I like writing about it after I read it, so I know what I learned and what I need to work on.

Report 61

Report Meeting Study System 61

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

We will also discuss favorite online resources, books, and activities for learning, with a focus on materials that empower learners to work things out on their own. This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship.

Libraries 28

Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

You can’t just make an animated phrase book.”. You can’t just make an animated phrase book. “You would think it would be easier, with all the amazing animation in movies. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time. The avatar must respond to the immediate situation. But once a movie is made, it’s frozen in time.

Assistive Technology 67

Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 67

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

System 70

System Education Report Elementary 70

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Report 46

Report Libraries Meeting System 46

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Report 50

Report System Dropout Education 50

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Report 44

Report System Dropout Learning 44

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Report 41

Report Meeting Course System 41

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Chromebook 41

Chromebook Report Classroom Course 41

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Cousins says she is “not a book person.” During her childhood of dealing with family strife, which took her to towns across rural Maine, rarely staying at a school for longer than a year or two, learning was never a priority. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate.

Dropout 91

Dropout Blended Learning Report Course 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

Laptops 145

Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

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. It sometimes takes him hours to type assignments.

Policies 142

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 142

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. She plans to stick with her “beautiful” kids and see them through graduation.

Learning 83

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Common Core 95

Common Core Advocacy Report System 95

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I think people don’t really value reading and books as much as they used to and that is a big problem. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way?

System 50

System Report Examples Study 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Books Gone Wild.

BYOD 52

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

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. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.” “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Thursday, April 24th at 3pm Rethinking Lesson Design with App Flow & Digital Citizenship: A Whole-Community Approach , Common Sense Media presenter, Kelly Mendoza, will deliver two great sessions at the free, online Learning Revolution Conference. See the schedule in your local time at [link].

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff Puerto Rico’s secretary of education, Eliezer Ramos Parés, who is beginning his second year on the job , acknowledges the tough road ahead.

Elementary 103

Elementary Report Dropout System 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

Report 43

Report Groups System How To 43

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Wendy Luttrell, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the book “Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens,” said an increase in pregnant and parenting teens is a “commonsense prediction.”

Report 134

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” Via Edsurge : “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning.” ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

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. ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

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

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55