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. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. I’m a private person.”

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 82

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Wells is one of a growing cadre of teachers, professors and therapists who are using the iconic tabletop role-playing game (RPGs) and others like it as tools for teaching, learning and social-emotional development. But Dungeons & Dragons ? Changing your own narrative as a character affects not only you, but your group.

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Education Dropout Gamification Social Media 51

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Founded in 1804 on hills beside the Hocking River in a city named Athens for its ambition to be a center of learning, O.U. Rather than by buying “ads on television” or seeking “success in ball-throwing exercises,” he said, universities “become great when their students become Rhodes Scholars or their faculty win Nobel Prizes.”.

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Study Report Accessibility Course 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic closed schools and launched a national experiment in remote learning that has been chaotic and stressful for millions of American families. What she learned was worrisome. When the coronavirus ended in-person education in March, Alejandra’s school sent home games and simple exercises Christine could help with.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. But these are still the minority online classes.

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MOOC Dropout Exercises OER 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning. Still, staying on top of her kids’ learning this year feels like a full-time job in itself, more work than previous stints on the school PTA.

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 143

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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

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