Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Distance learning began March 23. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. “We encourage students to attend every second of every day,” says Simon.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Prior knowledge is one of the key concept in educational research that fundamentally reshape our understanding of how learning occurs. This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. They will also likely depress high school graduation rates, cause a spike in dropout rates, and negatively impact final educational attainment. In the U.S.,

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

There are many reasons behind high dropout rates , but many seem to stream from the same sources. Educators know their students and know how to meet their learning needs. Kids are naturally attuned to one type of learning activity or another. Students everywhere enjoy a gamified learning environment, no matter their age.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This past week, we traveled to the Golden, Colorado to attend the Conference of Online and Blended Learning (COBL), put on by the iLearn Collaborative. Here is what we learned: In his opening keynote, Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, asked the audience, “Why student-centered learning?” A few chimed in.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. 2/2) To learn the steps that may be required to get your aid: [link] For help w/ FAFSA, visit www.commonapp.org/fafsa Examples of nudging text messages sent to students that proved ineffective. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Related: Is it finally time for year-round school?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Significantly higher dropout rates. Grade-level retention was one of only five factors that negatively impacts student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the years, the girl, who is now 15, was suspended at least five times, by Hatten’s count — until the coronavirus pandemic brought a halt to in-school learning. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again. This story also appeared in The Nation.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 139

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner’s district, is schools will become hubs, teachers will become learning accelerators, and students will become co-authors of their own education. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 They learn something in one language and build on it in the other.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

More and more employers are eager to hire potential candidates who already have hard skills in core IT areas , such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and user-experience design, according to LinkedIn Learning. All of this adds up to one unfortunate conclusion — our country’s skills gap isn’t just hurting our energy infrastructure.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program. Driving Innovation Award: Hyundai Motor America.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Studies have often found that Black students learn more from same race teachers. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.) Teacher diversity statistics in 2020-21. Public school teachers are overwhelmingly white but most students are not.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. But to the parents, it’s worth it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We At the end of our data collection in the fall of 2020, their degree completion – the elementary algebra group and the stats group – they’re not that different,” said Douglas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Online learning was challenging for many students. Then the pandemic arrived.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Students with learning disabilities are more likely to be suspended or expelled from school and less likely to graduate from college than students without learning disabilities. Students living in poverty underperform, compared to those who are more affluent, on every measure of achievement at all stages of development.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Experts cautioned that online learning programs can lead to overuse of screens, which can impact behavior, sleep, and social-emotional development.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

SAN DIEGO — Vista High School principal Anthony Barela had a vivid image of what school here could look like after a $10 million grant to reimagine learning: Rolling desks and chairs, with students moving freely and talking about their work. We’re literally learning as we go along. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. In Maryland, 14 percent of students in special education dropped out of school.

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Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

I was curious to learn what advocates of alternative schools say we should do to help them. According to Eskolta, most are coping with some combination of poverty, disabilities, mental illness, homelessness, domestic violence, bullying, being a new immigrant and learning English, taking care of siblings or parenting their own children.

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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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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

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. Then, as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Duncan decided to close three low-performing elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 102

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. COLUMBIA, Mo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. People are looking for shorter forms of learning during this time. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? They don’t know whether they have two months, three months.

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 137

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Eighty-five percent of students in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District receive free or reduced-price lunch. Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. In elementary school, when I brought home reading material and worksheets, she’d sit with me at great length to make sure I understood the lessons.

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Dropout Study Elementary Report 87

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

As the importance and benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become more widely recognized, many teachers have struggled to combine this type of learning with their required curriculum. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.

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Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout 43

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. As soon as Covid hit in March 2020, Curley recognized how difficult it would be for her school district to transition to remote learning. “We were just trying to get through.”.

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Dropout Report Groups Laptops 142

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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