The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. He earned an A in his AP calculus course, but scored a 2 on the AP exam, which required him to retake the course in college.

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Education Course Report Policies 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It had been 26 years since the 45-year-old sat in a math course, but in January she found herself surrounded by fellow students, many as young as her sons, at Wallace State Community College, where she now is working on an associate degree to be an administrative assistant. I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Opportunities for online learning. Some students may require a more flexible learning schedule than the typical school day allows. percent in 2015-16.

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 61

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Online learning was challenging for many students. Then the pandemic arrived.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. I’m very worried. practices solving?

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STEM Report Course Study 126

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 93

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Among other things, its members talk about the obstacles confronting students. “I Gregory VanDyke Jr.,

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a little hard to map out an exact perfect scenario, but ensure that those kids have a tutor, ideally, a certified and experienced teacher, and if not, someone who’s getting a lot of training and support, and that those tutors are meeting with those kids from day one of the school year, if not before, to help them catch up,” said Socol.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We have community meetings every Monday and Friday, and we just talk about what work we have done, what achievements people have done, and everybody comes together. I applied with my FAFSA just to check if financially I would be good, but not to start courses or anything like that. Lawrence High was just too much people in one class.

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Report Meeting Course System 41

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

At Threshold, program staff get to know students through an extensive initial interview process, learning about their backgrounds, previous academic experiences and what kinds of requirements they still need to graduate. From there, teachers design individualized projects to help each student meet standards. I don’t like science.”.

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Dropout Blended Learning Report Course 90

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. Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them.

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

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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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

They’ve been letting officials know that while they want to see their friends, they recognize the seriousness of the virus and hope districts prioritize student mental health and improving online learning, especially for vulnerable students. “We’re going to be online for the whole fall semester.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The McKenna Center functions as a home for the pods, but pod leaders and students have flexibility to decide where and when to meet to accommodate students’ schedules. Ten pod leaders serve five high schoolers each, meeting individually and as a group every week after school, said Karla Arevalo, the program coordinator.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 81

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” ” Trump’s favorite techie is, of course, Peter Thiel. Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.”

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. How has online video changed our expectations of that? ” Online Education and Teaching Labor.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55