Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. What is Measuring Up?

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Additionally, online resources provide a wealth of multimedia tools that can enhance engagement and comprehension. Studies indicate that certain students, particularly those with scheduling constraints or in remote areas, benefit significantly from the flexibility afforded by online education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2019

It means that you not only ‘teach’ them but help them ‘learn’ by: Offering them timely help, Providing them the study material suitable to their learning styles, and. All I do is enter my ‘quiet’ room, connect with a structured tutoring system (with all the pedagogical tools I require), and I am all set. Think about that!

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 2, 2016

A one percentage point drop in the 16 percent in-school and out-of-school sophomore suspension rate could lead to a fiscal benefit of $691 million as estimated by the study, because of improvements in areas like earnings and taxes for affected students, and it could lead to a social benefit of $2.2 Suit by Parents, Pro-Charter Group: N.Y.C.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. A gold mine of evidence,” a study she co-authored called it.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Initially, to conduct his studies, he typed out text messages by hand: “Your child has missed class two times this week.” Along with a software engineer, he started a nonprofit, EdNudge , to build tools that would help schools deliver personalized nudges to students and parents via text automatically.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In addition, the troubling nationwide high school dropout rate persists, and college enrollment and retention rates are declining for our most vulnerable populations, further highlighting student disengagement. It provides educators and administrators with the flexibility and tools needed to engage and re-engage students.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. Funding is progressive, but it’s not progressive enough” to provide an equal opportunity for all students, said Jesse Levin, an economist at the American Institutes for Research and lead author of the study. That’s a much smaller $405 funding gap.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg may be a college dropout, but that’s not stopping him and Priscilla Chan from trying to help more students access higher education. Today the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced a grant partnership with the College Board in an effort to expand access to test preparation tools for assessments such as the PSAT and SAT.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. So states are using every tool they can to find and woo them, from direct-mail marketing to tuition discounts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

When my students are study the Haitian Revolution, they learn that Haiti’s crippling poverty can be traced to colonialism. Education is a tool for social justice.”. In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. Education is a tool for social justice.

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System Dropout Education Study 93

Linways Technologies

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Dropout rate : How many students dropped out without completing the course. Retention rate : How many students stayed as opposed to dropouts. Total classrooms and schedules per subject and study program: the number of classrooms, and thereby student strength per department. Number of teachers per department.

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Dropout Education Industry Outcomes 75

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 The same phenomenon is true in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Related: Another tool to improve student mental health? Kids talking to kids. Plenty of students are willing to take on these roles.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. It’s grown into a $500 million market with more than 30 for-profit companies selling predictive analytics tools to colleges. Trying to keep students in school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. This is a great way to focus material on what your class is studying. As a guest, I had most (maybe all) of the tools available to the classroom teacher including sharing the screen, audio, and chat.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Promise programs do help: A 2020 study analyzed 33 programs that provided tuition benefits to students attending local two-year colleges.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

There are countless digital tools available, you just have to find the one that works for you and your families. Without effective and purposeful communication among teachers and families, students have the possibility of falling behind in their studies, show no interest in academics, or become early dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for individualizing instruction using real-time data from an engaging adaptive learning tool to boost elementary classroom performance. Orestimba High School (Calif.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Speeding this up has become a promotional tool. Will there be more? Yeah, we’re betting on it,” said its founder, Brian Weinblatt.

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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. Attendance is an incredibly valuable tool for identifying students in need of additional support early. Reading and math skills are hindered for students who are chronically absent as early as kindergarten.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Abigail Joseph: When I was at my previous school, every year the seventh- and eighth-grade students studied either the Silk Road or the World's Fair. And I know that we have the capacity on the technology side to work with educators to provide fantastic tools. What surprised me the most were the end products.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

With so many web tools out there that solve math problems, it’s easy for Brown’s online students to find a shortcut to answers and the calculations that go with them. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

The test reveals in-context areas of social studies and science in reading passages. I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. Author’s Last Name] deftly delivers a cogent argument to sway his/her readers by [3 CREW SAID Tools].”. . Real world problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. There is no question in the research in the field,” said Micere Keels, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who studies school discipline. Credit: Image provided by Sydney Chaffee.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 136

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. These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Lower dropout rates.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

. – Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. Until recently, teachers and administrators lacked tools to measure the engagement levels of their students in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 There is big tension over purpose and identity.”. Basic questions — Who should O.U. What kind of school is it?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

For students who assume that an expensive college is out of the question, no matter how good their grades are, Levine’s tool could be a breakthrough. ” Back home in Ohio, Yuna and her mother tried the tool. “We If it’s difficult for me, that’s a problem.”. We couldn’t believe it. We laughed it off,” she said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” Mark Christian, director of immersive learning at Pearson, says his goal is “to provide the tools that teachers can use to do the impossible.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. Yet this is about more than counselor numbers; students are pressing for an array of tools and, critically, a culture shift. Counselor burnout is real.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Learning analytics tools now track the digital breadcrumbs that students leave everywhere from signing up for meal plans to completing online homework assignments. University staff who are buying data-driven technology should demand transparency from the companies that sell them these tools, Siemens says.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. This was something we touched on in a recent blog post on a study that found that more than half of students in the US felt “bored” at school.) If this imbalance isn’t a cause for concern among educators, it should be.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Research shows exercise can ease things like panic attacks or mood and sleep disorders, and a recent study in the journal, Lancet Psychiatry, found that popular team sports may have a slight edge over the other forms of physical activity. The study showed that “very simple forms of social support can be beneficial,” he says.

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Exercises Groups Dropout Study 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID now has a $75 million annual budget and many years’ worth of independent studies and thousands of individual examples suggesting that it works. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results. The papers — and the orderliness — are essential tools in AVID.

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