The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka is her middle name. Where did they go?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Americans and Mississippians and anyone with common sense in the year 2020 understands broadband is as important to modern life as electricity is.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. From the beginning, Rubin and Toledo agreed that the program would have a community-wide impact in this town, where the median household income was just $34,689 in 2020. They need a mentor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data. percent in 2019-2020, according to ACCS data. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread and colleges were forced to go remote in early 2020, Fricks said he worried about students in co-requisite and developmental courses. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 66.37

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning. Since it’s online, teachers don’t notice you’re struggling,” she said. Zyonne Reid, a 15-year-old at J.P.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning. Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

They’ve been letting officials know that while they want to see their friends, they recognize the seriousness of the virus and hope districts prioritize student mental health and improving online learning, especially for vulnerable students. Considering that we’re going completely distance learning for the time being,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

“The [remote learning] experience is not good, and it is leaving a really bad taste for many learners,” Weise told me, noting that traditional universities in crisis mode don’t have a background in instructional design and online learning that could help make remote classes more meaningful for students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

The College Board, which administers the SAT, cancelled the May 2, 2020, test and will be reviewing whether to hold June 6 testing. The organization, which also administers Advanced Placement tests that allow students to receive college credit, announced it in lieu of in-person tests students could take those exams online at home.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

She was 8 in January 2020, when earthquakes rocked the island, closing her school for three months while engineers inspected its physical structures to make sure they were safe for students to return. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Compounded trauma from the barrage of disasters lingers.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via the press release : “ Amazon Announces More Than 10,000 Employee Participants in Career Choice and Expects to Reach 20,000 Participants by 2020.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” Contests and Awards. ” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” Seriously?!

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