EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

learning delays. To fine-tune online courses and offerings. The research and analysis in these directions can help educators modify and create adaptive learning curriculum for their students. And adaptive learning is one of the major benefits of online learning as well. detentions. attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

But Altus administrators believe that their formula — using online learning without sacrificing one-on-one interactions between students and teachers — works. The organization also has established partnerships with local businesses and other community groups. And all instruction is delivered one-on-one or in small groups.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

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. The list of students contacted was based on those who did not participate in online learning activities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. she said, because her family was having to move from motel to motel.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”. We’re just triaging.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. The students were also often distracted — trying to learn while grappling with health, financial and family stressors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Experts cautioned that online learning programs can lead to overuse of screens, which can impact behavior, sleep, and social-emotional development. The bill states that these districts have the greatest need due to high incidences of violence, a large number of low-income students and high dropout rates.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

An intelligent learning platform (ILP) for schools and universities might be the tool you’ll start using soon if you’re a teacher, academic institution leader, student, or parent. Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Lower dropout rates. Post answers.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Duncan told Fast Company that he sees Pluralsight, which is reportedly worth more than $1 billion and is funded by Silicon Valley interests , as a way to provide more learning opportunities to a broad group of people, including those who traditionally may not have access to such courses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Credit: Rosamund Looney. Still, fights over masks have flared in other contexts.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No I spoke with a group of students in the program, and I told them, ‘I’m not withdrawing, I’m just going to push through,’ ” Hernandez said. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The first thing the group did, Mickens said, was to start tracking the number of public school students in Oakland who already had a device and internet service, and those who didn’t. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Some colleges and universities are collaborating on such ideas in groups including the University Innovation Alliance and the Marvel Universe-worthy HAIL Storm — it stands for Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners — a coalition of academic innovation labs. A litany of interest groups has been pushing for the I.L.R.,

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

My field was ArtificialIntelligence , but I started experimenting with online tutor groups, producing web pages, etc and migrated into educational technology (as many people did). large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” A group of three appeared to be frustrated.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I do not want to take classes online and I don’t want to miss out on football games and the whole college experience,” Fogel said. She’s in good company within her age group: a stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

They’ve been letting officials know that while they want to see their friends, they recognize the seriousness of the virus and hope districts prioritize student mental health and improving online learning, especially for vulnerable students. Other student groups have also conducted surveys to capture students’ experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

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. There’s a lot of things outside of the school life. Just family, health.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. It sometimes takes him hours to type assignments.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. As more teachers opted in to blended learning classrooms, they reported being able to learn more about each student.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. Some have banded together to call for providing internet hotspots and Chromebooks to millions of students who cannot get online or access lessons. They have art, they have gym, they have lunch and they have teachers they know. And now it’s all taken away.”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. They need to improve the online experience if they are going to continue in this manner.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

This online conference will be free to attend, and you can follow the conversations by using the hashtag #learning14. The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. This is very exciting research!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In one class, Danusis introduces me to a lanky child in rain boots, who clicks through an online math program while chatting about a baby goat that’s being weaned in her backyard. In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Once a dual superintendent-principal in Alaska’s remote Pribilof Islands, Shellinger runs a group, the National SAM Innovation Project, that’s working in Colorado and 22 other states to help principals better plan their days and train colleagues to assume more of their schools’ management tasks. (SAM

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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. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.” I found out about it in a support group,” Exline said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Thursday, April 24th at 3pm Rethinking Lesson Design with App Flow & Digital Citizenship: A Whole-Community Approach , Common Sense Media presenter, Kelly Mendoza, will deliver two great sessions at the free, online Learning Revolution Conference. Prasanna Bharti shared this Ed Tech Review article on project based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That’s probably the three main groups. I’ve only checked out one college, which was on a trip for this group in school. There’s definitely wealthy people that go there, but I feel like, for the most part, it’s middle class, lower class. As far as welcoming, it’s mixed, for sure. There are the rednecks, jocks, and nerds.

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