techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for individualizing instruction using real-time data from an engaging adaptive learning tool to boost elementary classroom performance. Orestimba High School (Calif.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

Education 40

Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Related: Another tool to improve student mental health? Kids talking to kids. Plenty of students are willing to take on these roles.

Accessibility 92

Accessibility Training Dropout Survey 92

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. Until recently, teachers and administrators lacked tools to measure the engagement levels of their students in the classroom.

Student Engagement 40

Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data 40

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. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Human variation is not an inconvenience, in this view, but a tool for engagement.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 100

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. He will be engaging and empowering 5th graders next year at Claude and Stella Parson Elementary School. What a summer. Casey Korder has been an educator in Las Vegas, Nevada for 10 years.

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In Sydney Chaffee’s ninth grade humanities class at Codman Academy, a charter school in Boston, students have access to “fidget tools” to help them release energy when they get antsy. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. Credit: Image provided by Sydney Chaffee.

Personalized Learning 138

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

We were devising ways to get our students money to fix their cars or cover medical bills long before such emergency aid garnered significant attention as a student success tool, and we’ve continued to prioritize it during the pandemic. That kind of family-based approach — in which every problem is a relevant problem — is a hallmark of HBCUs.

Digital Divide 141

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October. Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said.

Analysis 123

Analysis Report Data Policies 123

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. We know when communities experience that kind of emotional overwhelm, they're often looking for tools.

Secondary 178

Secondary Training System Elementary 178

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The "Age of Reason"/"Industrial Revolution" system of scientific management system accomplishes exactly what it was intended to do one hundred and thirty years ago - high dropout rates, gender-differentiated pay, widget-learning, and Theory X leadership styles.

Industry 50

Industry Dropout Policies System 50

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2023

Fortunately, other data sources are available, from school site visits , student and teacher perception surveys and other tools that many school districts already utilize (think: graduation rates and statistics on student discipline). And it’s true that expanding the number of tools we use to measure school quality will take some adjustment.

Dropout 141

Dropout Outcomes Data System 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

There’s a really interesting study of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which looked at grades and also performance on standardized tests in math for elementary school students. Again, elementary school students who took the test in the afternoon did worse than those who took the test in the morning. Many schools do.

Education 128

Education Learning Elementary Groups 128

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

Blended Learning 132

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

Classroom 54

Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 54

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. But students may not have the skills, tools or proper supports to keep going.”

Dropout 95

Dropout Report System Meeting 95

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. There are gifted dropouts. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess. So it makes it harder for us to grasp the importance of whatever we’re learning and connect it to real world issues and things that are going on in our community.”

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

For the last two years, Summit has set out to replicate its success, not by opening more Summit schools, but by offering other schools free tools, training and support to transform themselves. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Districts and schools should provide professional development to teachers and staff members to give them tools to help refugee students. Let’s make sure that we are doing our best to ensure that these students have all the tools they need to reach goals that are essential to both them and their families.

Meeting 107

Meeting Survey Study Report 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Polygenic scores are a potentially useful new scientific tool. Polygenic scores are a potentially useful new scientific tool. You’re basically developing a tool that’s only useful for one segment of the population,” Harden said. “If It’s really not a puny predictor at this point,” Domingue said.

Data 58

Data Study Assessment Report 58

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Why are women locked out?

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Personalized Learning 96

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. work on laptops during class. Photo: Jackie Mader. Choice alone won’t do it.

System 40

System Dropout Instructional Materials Strategy 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

Elementary 103

Elementary Report Dropout System 103

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

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. Tagged on: March 2, 2017 K-12 Predictive Analytics: Time for a Better Dropout Diagnosis | RealClearEducation → Is this sponsored content?

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Maybe they have to watch younger siblings at home, or there’s something happening at school — there’s a bullying issue or they’re particularly stressed out about one of their classes,” Terech, a former elementary school teacher, told lawmakers at a House Education Committee hearing this year. Terech has vowed to revive it next year.

Elementary 82

Elementary Report Dropout Data 82

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” “ Can an Online Tool Depolarize Campus Discussions? – in Edsurge gives me pause: “Elementary School Wellness Program Helps Young Males of Color Cultivate Their Identities.” Via AZ Central : “ Primavera charter CEO gets $8.8M

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.” ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” ” Via NPR : “ Advanced Placement Exam Scores In Alabama On The Rise.”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Summer camp provider Gakko has raised $6.5

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50