The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Many of the Webster upperclassmen simply walk by the City Year members, but several younger students stop and engage in conversations about a shared love of video games or binge-watching YouTube clips. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. The world of education has adopted digital learning as a reliable way of delivering instruction, assessing student progress and supporting better academic outcomes.

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Trends E-rate Gamification Game-Based Learning 368

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. For someone to say that [K-12 and higher education] are not linked, I think that's way off.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% For students who may not have access to these tools and are near an Ancora Education partner school, access to computer labs is available at no charge.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

Providing Education and Support Services. The district has also engaged local adults in sharing their love of reading with students through live events pre-pandemic and then via online videos during remote learning. The post Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement appeared first on edWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Youth are given an opportunity to earn money by generating new works including songs, poetry, and videos which the organization in turn publishes. Visual artists document performers and produce photographs and videos that carry the messaging out online long after the PA is packed up. Louis creative work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Education. It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. Related: How higher education lost its shine. It’s not a retail company. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 3, 2021

They are discovering a lot of what their children are doing is having information fed to them that they could have easily learned by watching YouTube videos. How to Opt Out, Not Dropout, of School For parents with teens who are considering continuing to learn from home there is How to Opt Out, Not Dropout, of School.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. First, students can observe the behaviors of their teachers and other educators around the school. Learners need to believe that educators at their school understand them and care about them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2019

Online tutoring is an option that I and many of my like-minded friends (school teachers, professors, research scholars, professionals, and academicians) love because it ensures us a steady side-income doing what we love – providing educational support to students in the remotest corners of the world. Think about that!

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 10, 2020

Especially for large classes, it is easy to lose the thread of the conversation, to not remember what topic was taught yesterday or for a student to get distracted because his little brother is playing video games in the next room. Maggie Brennan is an international education consultant based in Argentina.

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User Generated Education

MAY 23, 2016

When education is done “right”, learners often feel and experience the following in their both formal and informal educational environments: Joy. It would just require a shift in the education world’s mindset. Wonderment. Intrinsically Motivated. Accomplishment and Pride (in themselves and in their work).

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In some ways, they are — but there’s still a lot to learn from them, says Harvard Graduate School of Education Lecturer Todd Rose. He knows the mindset well; before he was a Harvard professor, he was a high school dropout.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. The constantly growing needs of the education sector have added to the pressures of teaching.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

While debate about professional development expands, educator hopes for feeling supported are shrinking. If we can’t effectively support our educators then expecting them to reverse the concerning trends of high school dropouts (more than ¼ fail to graduate H.S.), With research from the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Teachers can assign videos to their classes with the new ‘Assignment’ function. Teachers create the video list and Nepris emails it to students, to be viewed through their Nepris accounts. Educational Applications.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

LearnWell, a leading mental health services company in K-12 education, announced it has expanded its services through an agreement with Comprehensive Counseling LCSWs, a New York-based counseling practice. Mental health challenges will affect nearly half of all students at some point before age 18.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“Ongoing research shows that family engagement in schools improves student achievement, reduces absenteeism, and restores parents’ confidence in their children’s education” (Garcia & Thornton, 2014). Educational technology is an effective way to communicate with parents. with using Remind. Creating contact lists makes this easier.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Video subjects ranged from reading stories to health to dance to origami.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” Kindle location 1093).

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

And, perhaps most remarkably, the fear that immersive role-play might damage vulnerable adolescents has been replaced with the radical notion that D&D might actually be saving lives and, according to educator and filmmaker Maria Laura Ruggiero, even the world. Hacking the Education Narrative. The Return of the King.

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Education Dropout Gamification Social Media 51

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It was back then that he delivered a TED talk on the topic of whether schools kill students’ creativity —and today, that video has been viewed over 43 million times, currently holding the title of “most popular TED talk of all time.”. For Robinson, his background in education extends all the way back to when he graduated from college.

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

AUGUST 16, 2015

Since the early days of computers, many of us dreamed of how computers were going to revolutionize education. We didn’t know exactly how it was going to work, but we knew that the “personal” computer made it possible to individualize education. Is it surprising that the e-learning student dropout rate is up to 50%?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The school, which already incorporates baseball into its educational programs, was a natural fit for MLB’s new initiative, Summer Slugger — a baseball-themed digital math and literacy program that allows students to hit home runs with word problems and strike out batters through multiplication and division. Higher Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2013

Join me Wednesday, April 17th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski on their new book, Leaving to Learn : How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates. Charlie has served as an independent consultant to education and business since 1976.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

We can channel that money, instead of building new jails and prisons, to educating the children that are in those jails and are not being served. In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 94

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. Educators have also adjusted to teaching online, and this trend is here to stay even if most schools have reopened their doors. Lower dropout rates.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. A few weeks after the first meeting, Shark Tank called me with a request to send in a an eye-catching and creative video pitch. After the video, they invited me to participate in the show.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.” But the Atlanta metro area seems to be a hotbed, despite the policies’ disruption of children’s educations. The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Today, students have choices when it comes to their education; technology has enabled new school models and a growing number of students are finding success through personalized pathways. How do you know that a student hasn’t just logged onto their computer and wandered off to play video games? How do you know learning is happening?

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. Higher Education. He previously served as the district’s special education supervisor.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

DECODING DIGITAL LITERACY: Ask 450 educators to define “digital literacy,” and you’ll likely get dozens of answers. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” Think about it like a car.

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