The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. Opportunities for online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Recent studies show that COVID-19 has only exacerbated these trends with students reporting increased anxiety and depression symptoms and over forty percent of students stating that they have attempted to seek mental health care during the pandemic. Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic.

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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.

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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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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 Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. SPECIAL REPORT. Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Some 10 percent of high school seniors who were planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else, the consulting firm SimpsonScarborough reports. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

After implementing the combination of the tiered placement and co-requisites, the system reported a 43 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental English and a 32 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental Math. The decrease tracked with the department’s historical experience with online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

She added that it’s frustrating that “the places with the least resources seem to be the ones being most creative and student-centered, and the places with the most resources, with a few exceptions, are finding solace in that May 1 deadline.”. And so I think that this could be really clarifying and useful in that way.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The Hechinger Report is running 10 excerpts from the project, to give our readers a sampling of what students really think. Photo: Magdalena Slapik for The Hechinger Report. No resources. It was just not a very helpful experience, partially because of the resources and the time. Caleb Carman, an 11th-grader at Fiorello H.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Wednesday, April 29th at 4pm Common Sense Media Webinar: Helping Students Make Good Digital Decisions with Digital Compass , Join Common Sense Education for a webinar to celebrate the launch of their newest free education resource, Digital Compass. This is coupled with free online learning, career based mentoring and apprenticeship.

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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 These relationships are proving crucial now in organizing and spreading word of resources that are available to families. Read the series.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Rebecca Conley with Maine Public for The Hechinger Report. Teacher Juliana Rothschild said that because she can individualize projects for each student, she can tie their interests into their learning. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online. He was never a frequent user of computers, instead playing video games on a handheld device, and has found adjusting to the school’s online learning platform challenging.

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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. They didn’t have to do that.”. It helped me a lot,” she said. I can’t do my jobs.

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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. Considering that we’re going completely distance learning for the time being,” she said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. “We Ending Social Promotion. is three years.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

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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. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

In our community’s next webinar, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will share the results from Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, a report from a national survey of over 1500 parents of children ages 2-10. Two excellent resources for your classroom, library, or media center from our friends at Common Sense Media.

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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. His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Her teachers never acknowledged her growing belly, and the school counselor had no suggestions for outside resources. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report. She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. And recently, the U.S.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. State and Local) Education Politics. Via Reuters : “U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Whether or not the product has failed or enrollments have fallen or the promises were always mostly b t, to this day, the big MOOC companies and their famous founders remain in the headlines: “ Andrew Ng Spreads the Gospel of AI With a New Online School ,” Wired reported.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “Documenting Maine ’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.” ” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education.

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