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

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

These short courses last from as little as a few weeks to as long as a year and don’t confer a traditional college degree but, instead, end with a certificate. They’re like the Wild West of education. These vocational courses are often housed in the non-credit, continuing education departments of community colleges.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Dropout prevention Featured on eSchool News School Administration Top News blended choice choose pathways PBL student agency'

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

LearnWell, a leading mental health services company in K-12 education, announced it has expanded its services through an agreement with Comprehensive Counseling LCSWs, a New York-based counseling practice. Mental health challenges will affect nearly half of all students at some point before age 18.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

The ASU+GSV conference in San Diego—where more than 4,000 people gathered this month from the education, edtech, publishing, venture capital and private equity sectors—is a hard conference to describe to typical education professionals, or to teachers who are on strike in states across the country. Why is this?

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“Ongoing research shows that family engagement in schools improves student achievement, reduces absenteeism, and restores parents’ confidence in their children’s education” (Garcia & Thornton, 2014). Educational technology is an effective way to communicate with parents. with using Remind. Reference Garcia, L. & Thornton, O.

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

At a table with stacks of flyers advertising scholarships, a family confers quietly with a counselor. Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. The advice is free.

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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

APRIL 23, 2019

Those are some of the examples educators shared with us on this week’s podcast. In this series we'll hear directly from educators who attended the EdSurge Fusion Conference last fall. In this series we'll hear directly from educators who attended the EdSurge Fusion Conference last fall.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. When James Smith became principal at Snowy Peaks three years ago, the school was a dropout prevention program on turnaround status. EdSurge is on the road.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 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. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. for former general education students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A rare brand-new nonprofit university, NewU has a comparatively low $16,500-a-year price that’s locked in for a student’s entire education and majors with interchangeable requirements so students don’t fall behind if they switch. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

It’s here that I find time to finally sit and reflect on this year’s journey into amazing new educational adventures with more on the way. Let’s see, you made a transition from a PC to Mac operating system, you are learning and are continuing to learn the power of Google Apps for Education. Just the waves, nature and prana.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

Now and then, I have the privilege to interview some great thought leaders in the field of education. This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. 1) You’re currently professor of educational technology at the British Open University.

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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 Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Over the course of the past year, we have lost three innovative educators. Because each educator was generous with sharing their thoughts and ideas, they leave behind a digital legacy that can live on to inspire others. Below is a little insight about each of these educators. Joe Bower, Deven Black, and Bob Sprankle.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 10, 2015

Audrey Watters and Maarten de Laat Education writer and journalist Audrey Watters describes herself as a recovering academic, serial dropout and rabble rouser - her blog also carries the epithet 'trouble maker'. It was therefore with great anticipation that delegates at the 2015 EDEN Conference in Barcelona, gathered to hear her speak.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 It’s expanding graduate programs and providing custom education for area businesses, increasing income from those sources by 46 percent. Many are desperate to fill seats; higher education institutions of all kinds had nearly 2.1

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Wednesday, April 29th at 4pm Common Sense Media Webinar: Helping Students Make Good Digital Decisions with Digital Compass , Join Common Sense Education for a webinar to celebrate the launch of their newest free education resource, Digital Compass. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Our intent is to provide an honest and updated view of where we are, the real benefits, and the challenges to overcome when using learning analytics as educational technology. there are multiple benefits of following a data-driven approach to education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Meanwhile higher education is facing a far more meaningful supply and demand crisis. And vast inequities remain in both the enrollment and graduation rates for minority students, a recent American Council on Education report found. Related: It’s time to change the conversation about college admissions. Ted Mitchell, a former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Brittany Jefferson says one of the hardest things about being incarcerated is not being around to help her children with their education. She tells them: “You only get one education, so you really need to be focusing hard if you want to do something successful in life.” Credit: Christine Zuniga. Read the series.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Part of a cadre of advisers deployed by the state to prod more Tennessee high school graduates into college, the women in this conference room have suddenly found their jobs to be much harder. Proportion of 14- to 18-year-olds who think education is necessary beyond high school: 45 percent. Last year, it was less than 53 percent. “He

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Finding an alternative presented yet another obstacle for the former hairdresser in her quest to get a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the University of Alaska at Anchorage, which sent the day care center packing because of budget cuts. Education Department data. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. Related: Test prep to get into vocational education? Employers do.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The catch was, Thiel wanted to announce the program the very next day — at a previously scheduled on-stage interview he was doing at the influential TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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