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. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

Dropout 40

Dropout How To Learning Policies 40

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. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?” A few chimed in.

Personalized Learning 60

Personalized Learning iLearn Learning Dropout 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As a consequence, he said, “I’ve seen my students’ ability to learn, to write, to comprehend material plummet” — including the many, Hunt pointed out, who are destined to go on to work as history teachers. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”.

Case Study 102

Case Study Study Dropout Education 102

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground.

Dropout 122

Dropout Survey Accessibility Report 122

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. At least 32 states now make funding contingent on success rates, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures , including the number of degrees awarded and student progress toward degrees. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Choose as many as you like.

Dropout 97

Dropout Report Policies Data 97

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. What analysts have learned so far is both encouraging and disappointing. As with current Pell grants and student loans, taxpayers don’t want to fund a new pool of dropouts.

Dropout 81

Dropout Industry Training Data 81

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Taking action is the ultimate goal of any learning analytics process.

Learning Analytics 62

Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

What have we learned that can make a difference for the next folks coming through?” In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” I can’t believe we were doing that to students, adding that extra barrier,” she says. What are the lessons here?

Policies 121

Policies Dropout Analysis Course 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

Data 106

Data Dropout Company Report 106

The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

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. Soon we will be changing learning for students from 3-12 grade across a district. Impacting the learning of roughly 11,000 students. Cohort 1 is on training 7 of 12.

Conference 40

Conference Chromebook Training Dropout 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Joe Bower @ joe_bower Joe Bower began inspiring me several years ago when I came across his blog, " For the Love of Learning " where he shares his distaste of grading and blogs and his admiration for the work of Alfie Kohn. I was shocked when I learned he was taken from us too soon and too young as a result of an unexpected, heart attack.

Social Media 43

Social Media Dropout Guidelines Libraries 43

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.

Dropout 28

Dropout MOOC Flipped Classroom Conference 28

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. The idea was to get my students to learn that books are an enjoyable form of entertainment and to do so by giving them choices. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. That’s because colleges and universities have long been measured by how many “credit hours” students spend in class — 120 to graduate, typically divided into three credit hours per course — rather than what, if anything, they learn during that time.

Report 102

Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students.

Libraries 28

Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

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. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

Personalized Learning 98

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The teachers also learned that there are a handful of family members in the household, including Johnathan, his mother, a sister and an infant relative. We’re coming to build a relationship with you because we know that you’re an expert on how your child learns, and we as educators can learn a lot from you.”.

Report 111

Report Elementary Study Conference 111

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Craig Brock teaches high school science in Amarillo, Texas, where his freshman biology students are currently learning about the parts of a cell. Students who are learning English as a second language make up about 10 percent of the population in U.S. and speak little or no English, Brock often has to get creative.

Instructional Materials 28

Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

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

Industry 50

Industry Dropout Policies System 50

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. Amy Nalesnik, a 29-year-old pregnant mother of two, who had to find another place to put them after the day care center at her university shut down. Courtesy of Amy Nalesnik.

Groups 40

Groups Dropout Report Examples 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families. What she learned was worrisome. Ekwerekwu was 16 and a top student when she learned that her father was incarcerated. And they are not there right now.”.

Report 109

Report Exercises Video Education 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. “We Read more about Blended Learning. based think tank. Really, it’s misnamed.”.

Outcomes 47

Outcomes Report Data Blended Learning 47

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That leaves schools in much of the country, including Arizona, free to punish most students for missing learning time by forcing them to miss even more. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school.

Dropout 100

Dropout Analysis Policies Report 100

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. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

Facebook 175

Facebook Company System Dropout 175

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Nearly 80 percent of students with learning disabilities had jobs, compared to 45 percent of those with autism and 55 percent of those with an emotional disturbance, the federal report found. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. He is saving money to buy his own home. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

Outcomes 91

Outcomes Education Report Survey 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. Rather than operating schools, it is our job to approve who has the privilege to operate a school,” Lewis said at an October 2018 press conference. There was an expectation that we would succeed – always,” Ivory said. Related: As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools.

Meeting 84

Meeting Groups Report Course 84

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. At the heart of personalized learning is building a positive relationship with every student, every single day.”.

Personalized Learning 102

Personalized Learning Learning Competency Based Learning Secondary 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Eliot The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning.

BYOD 52

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The organization has produced attendance resources for schools, which include talking points and tips for school and community leaders, and it held a conference in September to help educators create attendance teams and develop comprehensive strategies for their own schools.

Elementary 92

Elementary Learning Report Data 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, teachers want their students to master content, develop a love of learning and move on to the next grade. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. If you don’t have a relationship with them, they won’t learn,” said Glick, who has taught many of her students for both seventh and eighth grade. “In

Broadband 139

Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

I’ve learned there is no ceiling on what wealthy and ambitious parents will do and pay for when it comes to coveted private school admission. In Austin, Texas, last month, I listened to Jacks talking about his new book at the SXSWedu conference , before a packed audience. but it’s all part of the broader inequality permeating U.S.

Policies 96

Policies Report Accessibility Analysis 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. Carl Rogers The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Submissions are due by April 25th.

Conference 51

Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51