The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Critics complain that the schools lack rigor and often use software programs vulnerable to cheating , such as Edgenuity. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Some students reported finishing a course in two weeks. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

She and her colleagues have had to intercede in evictions, deliver supplies and report children in dire circumstances to child protective services since the start of the pandemic. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on?inequality

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Company Training Industry Dropout 136

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Repayment rates for loans are lower for students who withdraw from college, like Bowie, compared to those who graduate, according to federal data. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Dropout Study Report System 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

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Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 93

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. Our data suggests that CIOs are less part of academic decision-making than we would hope,” he adds. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies.

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Lower dropout rates.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

MindShift

MARCH 3, 2017

My wireless company sends me a text alert when I’m about to use up my monthly data. This time, working with the largest school district in West Virginia, they built software that communicated directly with the electronic gradebook that teachers were already using, and they used the phone numbers parents provided on class lists.

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Dropout Study Software Outcomes 28

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). His laboratory is developing software to animate ASL avatars. Photo: John Myer.

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Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 66

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. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Irvine, Lake Elsinore, and Santa Clara, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Centennial , CO (July 03, 2018) Illuminate Education , the company transforming K-12 instruction through education intelligence solutions, has merged with IO Education, SchoolCity, Alpine Achievement, and Key Data Systems (KDS). million students in 43 states.

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Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 175

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

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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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story on school counselers is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

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 96

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. Anyway, Techcrunch reports that “WeWork takes meat off the menu as part of environmental policy drive.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. The Business of Job Training.

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Keep playing that data drumbeat.

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Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Secret CPS report spotlights big vacancies, lopsided options for students.” Via The Hechinger Report : “For students teetering on the edge financially, micro-grants help them finish college.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Good grief. Even worse?

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

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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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

The allegations center on reports that Paris, through inappropriate means, asked legislators to provide state funds to the college, a Christian institution in Arkansas.” “ EdX To Retire Foundational 6.002x Platform,” Class Central reports. ” GitHub touts automated testing on its blog.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via Vox : “Brazilian media report that police are entering university classrooms to interrogate professors.” ” Then, “A Day Later, Football Coach Out at Maryland,” Inside Higher Ed reported. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” National) Education Politics.

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

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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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

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.” Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use.

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40