MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

Connelly, who is pioneering a new course in social and emotional wellness, added: “I don’t know who thought white desks and rolling chairs were good ideas for high school students.”. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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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. Meetings, not so much. Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked.

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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. Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them. But these teachers also know that success requires time and trusting relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Perez said she only learned of the school’s laptop loan program through another Latina student — after she’d already purchased a new computer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. From there, teachers design individualized projects to help each student meet standards. Rothschild asked Cousins how she was feeling about the course, and if she could handle the workload on top of her job. Instead, school was coming to her. You write well!”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

She was making ends meet by working as a cashier at a local gas station, until an injury took her off the job. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Colleges and universities have used much of the federal HEERF money to cover extra costs associated with the pandemic — such as buying more laptops and cleaning equipment, setting up hot spots for students and making up for lost tuition revenue. “After I get her focused, I just say, ‘Ania, you can do this.’ ”. We knew we needed one.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

ver the course of a century, California built the country’s top-ranked public research university and its largest and most affordable community college system. If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. Department of Education says.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. I’ll meet people eventually.”. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. —

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students.

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