Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Such punitive actions do not have to be reported by the teacher and school, she noted. Rebecca Klein contributed reporting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. One tutor, Kingsley Esezobor, 38, is a graduate student in computational data science and engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

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.”. Enrollment in developmental English courses decreased from 9,338 in 2017-18 to 5,284 in 2018-2019, according to data provided by the Alabama Community College System.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Her schools is teaching students to set goals and take charge of their learning. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. When Dan D.

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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. . Lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Some 10 percent of high school seniors who were planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else, the consulting firm SimpsonScarborough reports. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. 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. The post When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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

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. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Related: One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. This story about academic innovation was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship. This is done through the development of skills in ICT, employable skills as well as entrepreneurship. At the end of the program, the youth are empowered to start their own ventures and equipped to thrive in the labour market.90%

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. 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. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 83

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. By early April, Washington County reported two deaths from the coronavirus. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In response, students from around the country – from Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona to Washington and California – are making their voices heard by arming themselves with data, testifying before school boards and petitioning local and state lawmakers. Considering that we’re going completely distance learning for the time being,” she said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. As more teachers opted in to blended learning classrooms, they reported being able to learn more about each student.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” “All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction. .

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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. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

In our community’s next webinar, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will share the results from Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, a report from a national survey of over 1500 parents of children ages 2-10. Education Revolution Google+ Community The Data Driven Education Trend. This is very exciting research!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. But skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that undermines communal values, accelerates privatization and turns public schools into big data siphons. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

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. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.

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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? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. 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. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. All are illegal, yet commonplace.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” ” The Hechinger Report asks , “What can Betsy DeVos really do?” Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Whether or not the product has failed or enrollments have fallen or the promises were always mostly b t, to this day, the big MOOC companies and their famous founders remain in the headlines: “ Andrew Ng Spreads the Gospel of AI With a New Online School ,” Wired reported.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” ” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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