EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. Ninety-one (91) percent have access to computers, tablets or cellphones. Auburn University awarded him the “Auburn Hero Award” for his work in “reducing dropouts and for helping Alternative Education Schools.” .

Dropout 100

Dropout Smartphone Tablets Report 100

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.

Dropout 59

Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 59

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Most learners have access to a tablet device, iPad, or some other form of smartphone device, but many don't have physical books at home. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Guidelines 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K. programs, and that’s a three-year model that’s automatically a quarter less expensive.”.

Report 102

Report Course Dropout Training 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

During college fairs or campus visits, a college representative using MyInTuition can hand a student a smartphone or a tablet, allowing him or her to input familiar household income information and receive a likely financial-aid estimate on the spot. “I I have a Ph.D. in economics, I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

Dropout 40

Dropout Survey Data Smartphone 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We We didn’t even have infrastructure on tracking devices,” Thomas said.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. They’d rather send her home than work on the issues she was going through,” Curry said. She missed out on a lot of work, a whole lot.

Handbook 98

Handbook Online Learning Learning Data 98