The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Poor internet, a lack of laptops and hotspots, and instability at home are the factors most commonly cited for making participation in online learning difficult for kids. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In a knit cap and long-sleeve raglan T-shirt, Clause was hovering over his laptop in the co-working space that serves as Rivet’s Richmond outpost, not far from the shipyard where women were recruited into service during World War II by a poster featuring the fictitious Rosie the Riveter, from whom the school took its name.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

He spent more than one morning at his family’s kitchen table, staring at his laptop, his thoughts frayed. Brown said students told his group that since the lockdowns started, their most persistent problems have been lack of internet access, child care and food. Philadelphia, a nonprofit that works to help low-income adult students. “If

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Teachers say they appreciate the chance to work more closely with the students, along with a small group of their colleagues, and believe it’s helped contribute to a drop in disciplinary incidents.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. To submit your question or vote on our next topic, click here. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. and $11 per hour.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student. Other groups, like the local United Way chapter, have also helped out.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

The district formed a multi-stakeholder MTSS team—parents and caregivers, community partners and non-profits, school board members, government officials, and local law enforcement—gathering their perspectives through surveys, focus groups, and anecdotal feedback.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. A Latinx student group that Contreras advises, ALMA, has also withered, he said, with only a handful of active members now, compared to perhaps two dozen in the 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. For teenagers with severe anxiety, the school has recently brought in mental health experts and formed parent groups on its campus to provide extra support. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate. Instead, school was coming to her.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

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 She’d created a Facebook group at the start of the school year for families of the children she taught.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

New Rochelle teacher Rose has no idea if lack of internet or laptops are the reasons some of her students haven’t gotten in touch, although she suspects that’s sometimes the case. Glick’s school gave out iPads and laptops to students who needed them, while committees at her school are going door to door to track down the non-responders.

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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. As students work on their laptops in the common area, teachers come around to work one-on-one with them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Without data, advocates like Fink worry that disproportionate disciplinary measures against already-marginalized groups could be hiding in plain sight. For the better part of the school year, they tried to learn from home.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On an unremarkable November morning, Jimmie Conner is hunched over his laptop at a dining table in an open-concept kitchen flooded with light. He would have a curfew, but one that allowed him to attend evening classes and discussion groups (11 PM on weekdays). FULLERTON, Calif. — He knew he’d also have to maintain a GPA of 3.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

And pregnancy is more common among Hispanic teens than among teens in any other racial or ethnic group, except American Indian and Alaska Native teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Colleges and universities have used much of the federal HEERF money to cover extra costs associated with the pandemic — such as buying more laptops and cleaning equipment, setting up hot spots for students and making up for lost tuition revenue. “After I get her focused, I just say, ‘Ania, you can do this.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

No racial or ethnic group constitutes a majority here; 39 percent of residents are Hispanic, 38 percent are white, 14 percent are Asian and 6 percent are black. The group provides paid fellowships for students to spend a semester lobbying politicians on college costs. More than a quarter are immigrants.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. I was used to seeing a group of people I already knew. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — remembered Rammacher.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” “A new kind of billionaire” is this b t: “The new definition of a billionaire is a person or group of people, that can touch, teach or influence a billion people.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

million in funding from Wellcome Trust, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Four Rivers Group, Ashton Kutcher, LVMH, Xavier Niel, Bill Gates, Benchmark, and Founders Fund. Testing company Examity has raised $21 million from University Ventures and Inherent Group. School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students.

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