The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

But asking Kentiona to look after her younger siblings — and maintain her studies — seemed like too much. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If Occasionally we see him on Facebook. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? When social studies teacher Todd Heuston stands in front of his students on the first day of class in Anchorage, Alaska, he knows some of them just aren’t interested. You can unfriend someone on Facebook or mute specific phrases on Twitter. Forty percent?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. She''s put together a list of the best artiles on Classroom Management, Reading and Language Arts, STEM, History and Social Studies, and more. Read more about this study here. Volume 3 of Karen Cameron''s Best of the Week is out!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Last August, for instance, the Center on Reinventing Public Education published a brief field report from their ongoing study of personalized-learning initiatives warning that some schools focus on the “iconography” of personalization — the technology or the project-based learning — but sacrifice rigor. It’s easy to do it superficially.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? Bull also worries that these screens infringe on student privacy, especially in light of Summit’s proximity to Facebook.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to generate a model that explains how teachers make sense of creativity in the learning of mathematics and how teachers promote or fail to promote it in the classroom. Learn more here.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.” And there’s more on for-profits and student loans in the research section below.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via ESPN : “Ravens OL John Urschel , 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Speaking of imperialism, The Guardian covers a report from Global Media which describes Facebook’s Free Basics program as “ digital colonialism.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” ” “Study of the Week” from FdB : “Of Course Virtual K–12 Schools Don’t Work.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Mark Zuckerberg on “Building Global Community” via Facebook. ” Via The New York Times : “Universities Face Pressure to Hold the Line on Title IX.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

University of Nebraska political science professor Ari Kohen “liked” a photo on Facebook depicting a defaced campaign sign for Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” ( The Atlantic and Vox also wrote up this study.). ” asks Daniel Willingham.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via NPR: “ To This Scholar, For-Profit Colleges Are ‘Lower Ed’ ” “ For-Profit Schools Rebound Under Trump,” according to the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education. ” Via The MIT Technology Review : “Big Questions Around Facebook’s Suicide-Prevention Tools.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via the BBC : “ Facebook Reports BBC to Police Over Investigation Into Child Sex Images.” ” More on this story and concerns about how Facebook moderates content via Techcrunch.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The survey also claimed that students prefer short classes (eight weeks or less), and they spend far less time studying and working on assignments than they should be – at least according to Department of Education requirements for credit-bearing coursework. It has some 2500 “beta testers,” Edsurge reported in February.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

. “ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” “Dear Mrs. .” ” Immigration and Education. .”

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” ” Bible study, I’m guessing. The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. ” That is the race for the Michigan Board of Education. What’s next?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

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