Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention? Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech Is Part of the Problem.

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Dropout Digital Citizenship System EdTech 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

In Texas — where the energy system failed those who depend on it — and elsewhere, our infrastructure is only as good as the technology that supports it. Build company-specific programs that focus on recruiting and/or customized training. It’s hurting our global competitiveness, our businesses and our communities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

He has more than 20 years of experience growing small companies and optimizing portfolio management. Ripple Effects’ suite of PreK-12 digital programs provide a differentiated, multi-tiered system of support that empowers both students and educators to develop the social and life skills necessary to thrive in an academic setting.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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EdTech Education Policies Assessment 123

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

District leaders will need to have and communicate a clear, powerful vision about where the school system is headed in order to guide the way forward. As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In spite of mankind’s amazing potential, it is an ironic truism of modernity that our US educational system is losing massive numbers of young learners each year to boredom, stress, and disengagement (1, 2). We know that labeling and stratifying children are a disservice to both the individual and the educational system. (6).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Georgia State’s analytics system color codes a student’s risk of dropping out and Robinson’s file was showing yellow, a sign that his plan to go into nursing was risky. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts. In addition, The Hechinger Report obtained data from seven community college districts, representing 19 of the 116 community colleges in the California system.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. A Maine-based foundation kicked in another $100 million.

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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. Select the type of expert you’d like based on occupation, company, or industry (optional if you don’t have a preference). If desired, attach documents potential presenters can review to prepare.

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Flipped Classroom Industry Dropout Common Core 150

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. While state higher education funding in Texas doesn’t consider institutions’ retention rates, the TAMU System makes them glaringly public in an online dashboard.

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Dropout Report Policies Data 99

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Mark Edwards—the 2013 national superintendent of the year who taught thousands of educators how technology can play a pivotal role in improving academic results—will join Discovery Education in August, the company announced today. based company. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts.

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Education Company Dropout Policies 75

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. Vicki: (laughs). Do Something.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Why not throw in the grading system while we’re at it?”. Many proponents of un-grading say it addresses the unfairness of a system in which some students are better ready for college than others, have to balance school with work or are first generation and feel extra stress to perform well as a result of it.

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Assessment Report Dropout System 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] The prospects there are very difficult,” Smith said.

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Dropout Study Report System 89

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

American profit and revenue are often attributed to the outsized efforts of strong CEOs, lead financiers and highly-competitive companies. To make it as an ed tech start-up, to grow into a successful online institution or company or to maintain a dominant position, sales must rise, and do so quickly and constantly.

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Outcomes Conference Dropout Training 71

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. He points to the learning management system as an example. This focus on the learner is a big mistake.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Now we hear from Julia Dexter, co-founder of Squiggle Park, a game-based reading company. Before starting an education company, he was a middle school teacher for 10 years, and he shares how an interaction with a student made him realize just how hard it can feel to try and really reach all students to give them equal opportunity.

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Learning Dropout Company Groups 155

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. Switches, routers, panels and projectors. Cornhole, crane games, magic shows and light-up swords. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP).

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This shouldn’t be news,” said Damon Yarnell, Dickinson’s dean of academic advising, after leading an orientation for new faculty about its early-alert system in a quiet classroom on the college’s distinctive campus of grassy quads bounded by historic limestone buildings. Faculty care about their students, Espinosa said.

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Training Report Dropout System 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. The book also calls for ending legacy admissions, ensuring that colleges enroll at least 20 percent of their students from low-income families, and treating high school, college and career training as one system. Education as the great equalizer ?

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Education Policies System Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

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. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 68

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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Dropout Comparison Data Company 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company.

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STEM Report Course Study 127

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Data comes from many sources : Student Information Systems (SIS) : provide demographic and academic data. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information. Other systems: provide multiple types of information. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Something tells me that a loose projector hanging from the ceiling was not what Thomas Edison imagined when he proclaimed that motion picture would transform our education system. The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers.

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EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

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. Because as he’s said publicly many times, he feels the higher education system has what he sees as an irrational following, like a religion.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 176

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. There’s just a sense that we need to do something because we’re losing so many people out of the system. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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Study Data Report Elementary 137

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Forty-nine percent subscribe to product delivery plans , from meal kits to shaving supplies to media, including streaming and music platforms, according to the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. The Illinois system is far from fixed. But no one could argue that it has not improved.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 65

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Several public universities offer the option for this purpose, including some California State University System campuses, the University of Minnesota, Rutgers, Ball State and North Carolina and North Dakota state universities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

We’re about to start a national system of urban work colleges as well as a national consortium or urban work colleges,” its president, Michael Sorrell, said in April. The companies select them,” Sorrell said. Many work-college advocates believe the time is right. You have to compete.”.

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Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 90

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2018

Many education technology companies do the opposite: they deepen the moat around the castles of affluence. Many education technology companies do the opposite: they deepen the moat around the castles of affluence. I cannot make any predictions about how many great new justice-oriented K-12 companies will be formed this year.

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