EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. Forty-two percent say it happens in classrooms. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012).

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Dropout Smartphone Tablets Report 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers. ” High school dropout rates, workplace readiness, and inter-generational trends reflect a vicious cycle.

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Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 58

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 I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Simms was speaking in the light-filled but otherwise mostly empty classroom-sized space in a co-working building in downtown D.C. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets. Nobody talks about that.”. Then Covid decimated them.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We Some weren’t aware their kids could get a free device or, if they had a device, didn’t understand how to log on to Google Classroom or use Zoom. for only a few weeks.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges and universities prepare them. Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. By Franklin Schargel. The United States faces a serious educational crisis. What can be done to stop the hemorrhaging of these trained and certified educators?

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