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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Even online schools, where data can be more available due to vibrant learning management systems, are guilty of merely scratching the surface of data capture and analysis. What’s being missed?

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

That information is based on a survey distributed to adjuncts who are AFT members and, through social media, to adjuncts who are not members of the union; 1,043 responded. Fewer than half of adjuncts say they’ve received the training they need to help students in crisis, the AFT survey found.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs). According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. The system displays user-friendly competency-related graphics.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

Edsurge

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. Repairing the Damage Getting teachers to stay is possible, but it requires a great deal of systemic change.

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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Digital tools such as digital assessments, grade books, and learning management systems enable teachers to efficiently manage classroom activities and personalize instruction for diverse learners.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

Prior to Covid-19, Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, surveying nearly 167,000 students at 227 institutions, found 39 percent of participants had been food insecure in the previous 30 days, and the numbers are now worse. Over the past few months, we have identified several ways the U.S.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

After a survey from the initial pilot cohort of a hybrid Spanish class that we launched in 2014-2015, we found that 100% of the hybrid students in both sections of the pilot successfully completed the class, compared to 85% of the students in the 7 totally asynchronous (online) sections of the Spanish 1A class running in the same semester.

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