The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Those learning remotely from afar are classified as enrolled and are not among these empty seats.) Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. In total, data showed students owed the district $10 million for all debts. The median debt forgiven was just $41. “If

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Now Williams and school staff are heading back out into the field, trying to relocate the siblings and other children who’ve gone missing and reengage them in learning this fall. They replaced the hodgepodge of learning platforms and apps with more uniform systems, eliminating multiple passwords and making them easier to navigate.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

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. Often that involved thinking differently about how, when and where teaching and learning actually occur. Opportunities for online learning. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” .

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . LMS-related features.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Many valid questions have been raised about online schools. How do you know learning is happening? Where is the accountability?

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. The Fuel Education ® Transformation Awards program celebrates schools, districts, or organizations that are successfully transforming the way teachers teach and students learn.

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Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Meanwhile, an e-learning student got in trouble for filming another student during class without permission. Few have received much guidance from administrators on how to handle discipline issues that arise in remote learning and in school buildings where education has been reshaped by new health and safety guidelines.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It is learning support at exactly the right time you need it to be successful,” said Vicki P. National data showed if they had a little bit of support, they could take a college-level course and not have to go through the entire of developmental course load.”. percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 139

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. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Students risk getting stuck in deficient online programs for weeks or even months without the support they need and falling behind in their academics.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? It''s nearly always a good thing to have people engaged with learning - it''s better than having a population sitting around watching reality TV for instance. I think it is easy to be snobbish about MOOCs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. But Dee says the data suggests a need to understand more about children who aren’t in school and how that will affect their development. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Rensselaer Polytech language students learn Mandarin Chinese by conversing with AI avatars. Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). That reading deficit slows their learning in every other subject. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 66

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

“The missing link is counseling, starting in middle school,” Carnevale said, noting that counselors should be well versed in everything from college costs to different kinds of loans, guided by data about careers and colleges, and dedicated to what students, not institutions, need.

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Education Policies System Survey 110

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With this in mind, more school districts and local governments are trying to identify lower-cost learning opportunities that can still vault students into well-paying careers. A four-year degree isn’t guaranteed to land you in middle-class comfort, in other words.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. Because everyone is in a really different environment at home.” Credit: Sophia Hammer.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. This story also appeared in HuffPost. Escaping poverty.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 197

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Enrollment skyrocketed to nearly 300 students.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

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.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

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.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In one class, Danusis introduces me to a lanky child in rain boots, who clicks through an online math program while chatting about a baby goat that’s being weaned in her backyard. In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Future of Learning.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 97

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. Check out all the fun at ISTEunplugged.com.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. because of climate change, and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from the learning setbacks that come with them. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Department of Education report.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 102

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Tagged on: March 2, 2017 K-12 Predictive Analytics: Time for a Better Dropout Diagnosis | RealClearEducation → Is this sponsored content?

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EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Even though there is data that shows how pregnant teens can be supported and can be definitely on an educational trajectory of success.”. LaTavia BigBack, 21, with her daughter.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 134

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

. “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43