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Here are five trends that have the potential to allow new models to take root: 1. As I’ve noted before , alternative high schools, or dropout-recovery programs, are well-suited to forging competency-based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels. The post 5 trends for seeding CBE growth appeared first on Christensen Institute. MORE
Fuller’s report encouraged employers to push back against the trend: “Once the logic of resisting degree inflation takes root in an organization, it soon permeates different aspects of the organization’s culture — and eventually embeds itself at the heart of its strategy,” the report states. Higher Ed K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty Race MORE
It’s a worrisome trend. Coronavirus and Education Early Education Map to the Middle Class News Adult learning Column community college Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Parents MORE
With that in mind, it’s important to keep an eye on the myriad of digital education trends that are currently shaping up the industry. Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020. Here are a few e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020: Video learning. MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts High school reform Personalized Learning Rural schools MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Technology access MORE
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. MORE
Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. “We should maintain a focus on preventing teen births, but we also need to help improve the educational attainment of women once they become teen parents,” said Jennifer Manlove, a sociologist at Child Trends who co-authored the report. MORE
He called the virus “something of a moment of judgment for higher education, a shock that will accelerate [negative] trends that are already underway,” as well as one that could finally open the door for systemic policy change. MORE
It found a small, statistically significant bump in math (3 percentage points) and a “similar trend” (but “not significant”) in reading. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized Learning teachersDan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. DALLAS — In December 1997, a sixth-grader at Dan D. MORE
It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized LearningIn tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Photo: E. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. MORE
Trends in efforts to quit smoking also vary by educational level. Childhood traumatic stress from violence , abuse , corporal punishment and neglect contribute to educational outcomes such as excessive absenteeism, school dropout and school performance. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The interconnection between education and health is well established. Take, for example, smoking. MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Higher Ed News Adult learning Betsy Devos for-profit education Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completionThe U.S. MORE
I’m not referring to the temporary remote and hybrid solutions brick-and-mortar schools have employed during the pandemic, but the related and separate trend of school districts setting up new online learning programs, such as full-time virtual schools and district-supported learning pods. MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Personalized Learning Rural schoolsAt the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. MORE
From that survey, two results point to trends that could become game changers for K–12 education: First, 32% of administrators said their school systems now offer learning hubs where students can get in-person support while schools are closed. According to corroborating data from the American School District Panel, district leaders confirm that virtual schools aren’t just a trend likely to fade away once vaccination is widespread. MORE
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. MORE
Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student. K-12 Curriculum Data and research Discipline Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma poverty Principals Race Social emotional MORE
It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education completion . Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems. MORE
He says legislators must act now because given trends in immigration and the added challenges because of the coronavirus, “I think every district in the country is going to see a surge next year when it comes to need.” ADELPHI, Md. MORE
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. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched. Marksville High School is part of that upward trend. K-12 News achievement gap Funding Graduation and dropouts Parents poverty Race Rural schools Segregation teachers MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. K-12 News achievement gap Data and research Graduation and dropoutsHigh school students from Jackson Public Schools gather to discuss ways to improve district schools at Jackson Convention Complex in Mississippi last week. Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report. MORE
Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. MORE
As a fall semester transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, a startling trend is emerging: Students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, are leaving college at an alarming rate. MORE
” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts. Where enthusiastic faculty insist on teaching emerging trends or technologies they are compelled to do so as extracurricular courses. MORE
These positive trends, Carroll-Scott argues, are the cornerstones of future academic progress. MORE
This trend opens up huge meaningful job prospects for those who are good at certain subjects. Naturally, dropout rates of online teaching courses are lower than those of traditional classes. If you’re searching for alternatives to teaching in a classroom and you’re a stellar teacher, you have a lot of options. MORE
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. Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide. MORE
The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold. Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Andre Perry Columnists Higher Ed Opinion achievement gap Curriculum Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education affordability Race STEM Technology access MORE
Administrators used it to monitor trends and determine the neighborhoods and schools with low participation, then readily provide individual schools with data on which students weren’t signing on. MORE
He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? Higher Ed K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion online learning STEM teachersThe labor market value of a college degree has softened, stirring concern that a bachelor’s is no longer a gateway to the middle class. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. MORE
But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”. Higher Ed K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Mental health and trauma poverty Social emotional MORE
The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts teachers MORE
In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 MORE
California part of national trend. Higher Ed News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education completion Race TestingAnthony Rodriguez and Juneba Sulaiman both passed a college-level statistics class last summer after a placement exam indicated they weren’t ready for college-level math. Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. MORE
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education affordability Higher education completionThis report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college. MORE
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 3, 2019
With that in mind, it’s important to keep an eye on the myriad of digital education trends that are currently shaping up the industry. Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020. Here are a few e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020: Video learning.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2018
Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. “We should maintain a focus on preventing teen births, but we also need to help improve the educational attainment of women once they become teen parents,” said Jennifer Manlove, a sociologist at Child Trends who co-authored the report.
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The Christensen Institute
MAY 8, 2018
Here are five trends that have the potential to allow new models to take root: 1. As I’ve noted before , alternative high schools, or dropout-recovery programs, are well-suited to forging competency-based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels. The post 5 trends for seeding CBE growth appeared first on Christensen Institute.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
As a fall semester transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic continues, a startling trend is emerging: Students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, are leaving college at an alarming rate.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Administrators used it to monitor trends and determine the neighborhoods and schools with low participation, then readily provide individual schools with data on which students weren’t signing on.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 7, 2020
It’s a worrisome trend. Coronavirus and Education Early Education Map to the Middle Class News Adult learning Column community college Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Parents
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2020
These positive trends, Carroll-Scott argues, are the cornerstones of future academic progress.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts High school reform Personalized Learning Rural schools
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? Higher Ed K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion online learning STEM teachersThe labor market value of a college degree has softened, stirring concern that a bachelor’s is no longer a gateway to the middle class. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 26, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Personalized Learning Rural schoolsAt the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 4, 2019
Fuller’s report encouraged employers to push back against the trend: “Once the logic of resisting degree inflation takes root in an organization, it soon permeates different aspects of the organization’s culture — and eventually embeds itself at the heart of its strategy,” the report states. Higher Ed K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty Race
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 30, 2018
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education affordability Higher education completionThis report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized LearningIn tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Photo: E. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 30, 2019
But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”. Higher Ed K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Mental health and trauma poverty Social emotional
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5
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. In Avoyelles, these trends have become deeply entrenched. Marksville High School is part of that upward trend. K-12 News achievement gap Funding Graduation and dropouts Parents poverty Race Rural schools Segregation teachers
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2018
It found a small, statistically significant bump in math (3 percentage points) and a “similar trend” (but “not significant”) in reading. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized Learning teachersDan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. DALLAS — In December 1997, a sixth-grader at Dan D.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 13, 2017
California part of national trend. Higher Ed News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education completion Race TestingAnthony Rodriguez and Juneba Sulaiman both passed a college-level statistics class last summer after a placement exam indicated they weren’t ready for college-level math. Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student. K-12 Curriculum Data and research Discipline Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma poverty Principals Race Social emotional
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2019
Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Higher Ed News Adult learning Betsy Devos for-profit education Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completionThe U.S.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 29, 2018
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. K-12 News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Technology access
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 3, 2018
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. K-12 News achievement gap Data and research Graduation and dropoutsHigh school students from Jackson Public Schools gather to discuss ways to improve district schools at Jackson Convention Complex in Mississippi last week. Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report.
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. Over the last decade, we’ve seen educational institutions—from K-12 schools to colleges and universities—make tremendous strides in seizing the opportunities that modern technologies provide.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 16, 2017
The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts teachers
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 7, 2017
It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education completion . Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 14, 2020
He says legislators must act now because given trends in immigration and the added challenges because of the coronavirus, “I think every district in the country is going to see a surge next year when it comes to need.” ADELPHI, Md.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 26, 2020
He called the virus “something of a moment of judgment for higher education, a shock that will accelerate [negative] trends that are already underway,” as well as one that could finally open the door for systemic policy change.
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.
The Christensen Institute
APRIL 6, 2021
I’m not referring to the temporary remote and hybrid solutions brick-and-mortar schools have employed during the pandemic, but the related and separate trend of school districts setting up new online learning programs, such as full-time virtual schools and district-supported learning pods.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2018
The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold. Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Andre Perry Columnists Higher Ed Opinion achievement gap Curriculum Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education affordability Race STEM Technology access
Digital Promise
JUNE 3, 2019
Trends in efforts to quit smoking also vary by educational level. Childhood traumatic stress from violence , abuse , corporal punishment and neglect contribute to educational outcomes such as excessive absenteeism, school dropout and school performance. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The interconnection between education and health is well established. Take, for example, smoking.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 24, 2019
This trend opens up huge meaningful job prospects for those who are good at certain subjects. Naturally, dropout rates of online teaching courses are lower than those of traditional classes. If you’re searching for alternatives to teaching in a classroom and you’re a stellar teacher, you have a lot of options.
Neo LMS
OCTOBER 2, 2018
” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts. Where enthusiastic faculty insist on teaching emerging trends or technologies they are compelled to do so as extracurricular courses.
The Christensen Institute
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
From that survey, two results point to trends that could become game changers for K–12 education: First, 32% of administrators said their school systems now offer learning hubs where students can get in-person support while schools are closed. According to corroborating data from the American School District Panel, district leaders confirm that virtual schools aren’t just a trend likely to fade away once vaccination is widespread.
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