Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. How come none of my professors told me about this heavenly resource? Why aren’t more of my classmates taking advantage of these resources? Why is this blessing of a resource center the university’s best-kept secret?

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2013

Join me Wednesday, April 17th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski on their new book, Leaving to Learn : How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates. From the book''s description :) "It''s an alarming fact: in the U.S.,

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Blackboard Dropout Program Evaluation Learning 71

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Data Dropout Company Report 109

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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They said they’d be back to set her up with resources to help her with parenting. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. For more than two years, she says, “they never came back.”

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. One of the criticisms that’s been aimed at the use of technology in schools, however, is that it is being used solely to prepare users to enter the tech workforce by corralling them into STEM-related subjects.

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Technology Classroom Learning Dropout 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. This shouldn’t be news,” Yarnell says.

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Training Report Dropout System 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Patterson suspects it’s more difficult to assess students’ understanding of the class material with remote tests and quizzes, where students often can consult more resources. The university is known for its Meyerhoff Scholars Program , designed to prepare students from underrepresented backgrounds for STEM careers.

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Education Course Report Policies 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Research is emerging that says, if you can provide a high-quality but achievable level of support … you can start to get them accelerating learning,” said David Rosenberg, a partner at Education Resource Strategies, an education nonprofit that assists school districts. “So So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

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Study Data Report Elementary 139

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Cloud technology is also saving another invaluable resource—teachers’ time.

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Dropout Education Data Software 160

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

But then we know that there are those who continue to have difficulties, and those difficulties really stem into a variety of areas. You can think about these concentric circles kind of stemming out from the site. Schools are absorbing this reality, and often without the adequate resources or staff training or support systems in place.

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Secondary Training System Elementary 184

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course. Shan’s group happened to be all women.

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Study Dropout Groups Course 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Teachers, resources and programs for McDonogh 35 disappeared. Alumni of the historic black high school accused the school district of starving the school of resources as the district shifted its focus from the business of running schools, to the business of authorizing charters.

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Meeting Groups Report Course 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Certainly, Louisiana schools still have limited resources and tools to help struggling students, White said. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. And that means that the retention policy should change with the times.”.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 129

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Now that he was among one of the richest people in the world, thanks to co-founding PayPal and being an early investor in Facebook, he wanted to use those resources to weigh in. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 177

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Parents that do know better often don’t want to deal with the hassle of months or years of court battles, or may not have the time or resources to do so. Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.).

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. Locals worry that some families’ ability to opt out of the traditional schools has diverted resources from the kids who need the most help. It’s about the resources that are available.”.

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Elementary Report Dropout Training 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm. There are gifted dropouts. For instance: Using achievement tests, which better measure a child’s schooling and home resources than their potential. It’s not just Buffalo.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. They help connect families that have legal, housing or medical issues to resources, and they run courses in each classroom on topics like how to deal with strong emotions.

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Groups Meeting Examples Classroom 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

According to the Clark County human resources department, however, the intent of the emergency regulation was to allow for the hiring of out-of-state teachers, a move which up until the signing of the Every Child Succeeds Act would have jeopardized Nevada’s ability to qualify for federal funds. I came from that experience,” said Esparza.

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The dropout rate is around 70 percent. The school is a closed campus, its students are predominantly black and Latino , and only about a quarter of students graduate having completed the basic requirements for admission to a public four-year institution in California. Community college is not perfect.

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Dropout Study Report STEM 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Their stories starkly illustrate the fragile support system that low-income students in public schools with few resources encounter, every step of the way, as they navigate getting into college and paying for it. The filmmakers started a post-film impact campaign aimed at building more resources to help close the college guidance gap.

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Report Accessibility STEM Resources 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

She was sitting in the campus’s Bernhard Center, which offers a mix of fast-food dining options, quiet places to work, a bookstore and other student resources. On Capitol Hill, politicians are lobbying for more changes to increase foster youth’s resources and put a dent in how much they have to spend on higher education.

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System Study Policies Report 111

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

If a student fails to demonstrate mastery of a given skill, they are provided with additional resources and time. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. The school’s new-found desirability means stretching finite resources even further. “We

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 93

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

They added resources in an existing dual-language program at the elementary school level, created a sheltered English learner program for newcomer students in the middle school, and overhauled high school offerings, placing native English speakers and English learners into more of the same classrooms, so they can learn from each other.

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Groups Report Meeting Resources 111

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). .” Via Wired : “Schools Tap Secret Spectrum to Beam Free Internet to Students.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” Resources , But Grasp Is Surface-Level, Survey Finds.”

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” From the press release : “ Macmillan Learning Offers Educators Support for Open Education Resources via the Intellus Platform.”

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50