The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

And software developers and engineers help streamline communications and manage multiple projects — keeping customers’ lights on and our economy humming. For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety.

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Training Dropout STEM Company 114

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

Dropout 80

Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Critics complain that the schools lack rigor and often use software programs vulnerable to cheating , such as Edgenuity. His remarks come amid heavy public scrutiny of online programs, as schools and districts pressured to boost their graduation numbers increasingly turn to computer software to get students over the finish line.

Dropout 98

Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. He’d hit “absolute rock bottom.”.

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Company Training Industry Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

While general education classrooms at Covina High School in this town in the Valley east of Los Angeles were stocked with algebra and geometry books, Parry was given a book that covered only basic math. Parry said his room was a “horrible little classroom in the back of the campus that no one knew existed.” Sign up for our newsletter.

Dropout 92

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 92

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Data Dropout Company Report 106

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. Breakout rooms are even harder to monitor. And often teachers haven’t had time to cover anything in depth.

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STEM Report Course Study 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Each classroom operates differently — independence has one look in kindergarten and another in fifth grade — but students display a striking sense of academic self-awareness. “I In the classroom, if you want, you can sit at a table. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. Bringing data into college classrooms amounts to a “cultural transformation,” she argues, and requires leaders who are bilingual—speaking “IT as well as the academic.”.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. At least that was the case for a few months before a screw fell from the ceiling and landed in the middle of my classroom. My district's purchase of a new blended learning software followed the same formula.

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EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” “ Are ‘Smart’ Classrooms the Future? I’m starting on that project soon, and my god, this all looks so grim.

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. The siblings logged on for the remainder of the school year.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 142

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Final Notes Updates Last Week for "Reinventing the Classroom" Presentation Proposals. Submissions are due by April 25th. Ed Tech Month + PowerUp WHAT WORKS. More information and registration here.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Via Honi Soit : “University abandons Cadmus anti-cheating software.” Education in the Courts.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. .” The former Chicago Public Schools head pleaded guilty to fraud charges last year.

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

“How a Faculty Trip to Silicon Valley Changed the Classroom Experience,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Via Edsurge : “Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With AR/VR in the Classroom.” The company has raised $182.3

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. “ Robots in the classroom ? ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems? Despite Magic Leap being vaporware (backed by some $2.3

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Salesforce , the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students.”

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Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom. We want YOU to present at the Reinventing the Classroom conference on May 1st - all about the impact of ed tech on the classroom experience, and kicking off our self-proclaimed May as "Ed Tech Month." A Look At Physical And Digital Spaces Conversations Classroom 2.0

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

When they separate you into different classrooms it can just debilitate you,” he said, adding that the content was “dummied down.” Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom. When he got to high school, it was more like treading water.

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Education Elementary Meeting Study 92

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Data and “Research” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Study details tool to help professors measure how much active learning is happening in their classrooms.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

I wonder how many schools and districts that use the software have done this? ” “More Than Half of School Expenditures Spent on Classroom Instruction ,” says the Census Bureau. .” ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

“ Apple ’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms,” according to The New York Times. The company, which makes multimedia presentation software, has raised $30.2 ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Raritan put a chunk of its relief money — about $250,000 — toward a new software package that helps students map their shortest pathway to a degree. Without the HEERF money, there’s no way the school could have afforded the software, said Raritan President Michael McDonough. They’re talking about long-term goals. So the school used $1.6

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Software Report Trends Adobe 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life?

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96