Digital Promise
AUGUST 10, 2016
NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. Vancouver Public Schools hosted a Girls Lead the Way summer robotics camp at McLoughlin Middle School.
Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. Now that robots are flipping burgers and reading X-rays—for a fraction of the cost of human labor—learners need to prepare for careers that employ uniquely human traits like self-regulation and communication.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2016
Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. And the reports the district files to the federal court and DOJ don’t include information on achievement.
Edsurge
JULY 10, 2019
They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. The engine will also assess the outcomes of such interventions—information that will help tailor and improve recommendations over time.
techlearning
MARCH 5, 2018
The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. Students who need more time to process content can watch videos or read information their teachers have posted multiple times to support their learning.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. How do we ensure that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple won’t sell these enormous stores of information to advertisers, employers, law enforcement or the military?
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. During the recession, 5.6
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