A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The leadership of NASSP is well aware of trends in and the value of connected learning and have created a learning experience that will meet the needs of all attendees. So imagine their surprise to discover that a lot of effective learning can take place in shorter blocks of time. Participatory learning.

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Dropout Conference Social Media Common Core 230

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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Mobility Outcomes Accessibility Policies 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. According to its open-source playbook , Adobe teaches this so that apprentices can “learn quickly from their mistakes and build confidence.” This doesn’t have to be hard.

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Adobe Dropout Company Training 98

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

“This acquisition is a very critical building block to scaling the kinds of low-cost interventions that can help families engage students to learn every day,” says Smith. A Nudge to Remember In an age when mobile apps and devices send alerts for just about anything, the idea of sending updates via SMS hardly seems radical.

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Outcomes Dropout Company Study 87

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

It will also involve offering work-based learning experiences that build transferable skills and professional networks and vetting programs with employers and colleges. Every student deserves access to quality pathways providing mentorship, engaging and relevant academic learning and meaningful work-based experiences along the way.

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Education Training Industry Accessibility 107

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Grand challenges facing society, like social mobility, sustainability, equity and the preservation of democracy, grow in complexity and urgency each day. We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility. Along the way, we’ve learned some hard-earned lessons.

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Education Mobility Report Examples 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Today, I lead a company that creates online models for teaching and learning, yet my mission is much the same as it was when I was in the classroom.

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. For example, if people learn that their neighbors are spending less on energy, they are likely to reduce their energy use. We partner with districts to reduce absenteeism because we believe every student deserves to learn every day.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? It''s nearly always a good thing to have people engaged with learning - it''s better than having a population sitting around watching reality TV for instance. I think it is easy to be snobbish about MOOCs.

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Radically improve learning/understanding. That’s good.

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With this in mind, more school districts and local governments are trying to identify lower-cost learning opportunities that can still vault students into well-paying careers. A four-year degree isn’t guaranteed to land you in middle-class comfort, in other words. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Policies Report Trends Mobility 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race. colleges favor the rich.

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Education Policies System Survey 109

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. Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. The teachers also learned that there are a handful of family members in the household, including Johnathan, his mother, a sister and an infant relative. A lone window allows in little light. He knows a lot about posting on YouTube, too.

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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. And upon learning that as a member of the Say Yes operations committee he would be required to work closely with Philip Rumore, his longtime adversary and the head of the city’s teachers union, Radford remembers, “I didn’t see how this was going to work. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 95

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Instructional methods like Genius Hour , the Maker Movement, and STEAM allow teachers to meet high learning standards while supporting innovation. We have the opportunity to implement problem/project based learning and teach our students how to use web tools and social media to solve real world problems.

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Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 332

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Instructional methods like Genius Hour , the Maker Movement, and STEAM allow teachers to meet high learning standards while supporting innovation. We have the opportunity to implement problem/project based learning and teach our students how to use web tools and social media to solve real world problems.

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Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 278

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. Or what I also hear on the economic mobility side is, and now I want to go get that internship, but the internship isn't paid. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund. They need practical career skills.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 174

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. 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 Escaping poverty.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Eliot The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Microsoft Office 365 ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 55

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The psychology class was part of a program run by the nonprofit Fountain House where Lynch, alongside other students who had left college because of mental health challenges, learned how important it is to have basic needs met. The students learn about mindfulness, and sometimes have classes like financial literacy or cooking.

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Course Report Strategy System 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

For a few years the California State University system has had an unusual requirement for professors who win a grant to redesign their courses: They must post a summary and reflection about their teaching in a public Web collection so others can learn from their experiments. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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Classroom ePortfolio Dropout Course 60

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. Not all colleges are being heaped with praise, however, and the contrasts are striking.

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

The survey by Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice included student parents at 171 two-year and 56 four-year institutions, many of whom are poor and people of color and are looking for the promise of economic mobility a college education once provided. Related: How parents of young kids make it through college.

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Survey Policies Groups System 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If this is our chance to reimagine schools , remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn. Black students aren’t the only ones who benefit from efforts to increase the percentage of black teachers in schools.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. Carl Rogers The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Check out all the fun at ISTEunplugged.com.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 51

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

New additions to the already-amazing guest schedule are Henry Eyring on The Innovative University , Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age , and Cable Green on "public funding should equal openly-licensed resources."

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Moodle Dropout Adobe Education 37

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

He was just settling into a routine at school when he learned gangs had murdered his other brother. “We I wanted to learn about more supports that work,” he said. Andrea Stutzman is a teacher who wanted to learn to better connect culturally with parents: “I think it would help me understand my students’ experiences more.”

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Elementary Report Exercises Trends 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

After more than two years of pandemic learning, she wanted to finish her classes and her thesis, graduate and go. Related: Students in conservative states mobilize around Roe v. The end of Yael Benvenuto Ladin’s senior year at Oberlin College in Ohio was in sight. This story also appeared in Slate.

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Accessibility Training Policies Report 26

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Via Edsurge : “ ​Rhode Island ’s Plans to Become a ‘Lab State’ for Personalized Learning.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Higher Learning Technologies ( HLT ) has acquired gWhiz.

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” ” Social emotional learning ! Via Getting Smart : “Extending Social Emotional Learning into the Home.” IXL Learning has acquired ABCya. Mindfulness !

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. What might be the elements of the MOOC revolution? This is the part where someone always cites Arthur C.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55