2021, Dropout and Online Learning

VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

6, 2021 – VHS Learning, an accredited non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, has appointed Dr. Yolanda D. Boston – Dec. Johnson to its board of directors.

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Dropout Secondary Learning Course

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

Dropout

Dropout Policies Data Report

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. Another Boston student became severely depressed during online learning and was hospitalized for months.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instructor Brandon Smith discusses using online tools with students in an intermediate college algebra class at Wallace State Community College’s Hanceville campus on the first day of classes for the fall semester on Aug. The decrease tracked with the department’s historical experience with online learning.

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Course System Data Strategy

Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While the number of districts currently operating pods or hubs is unknown, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonprofit, created a database to track more than 300 pods in early 2021, finding that about 7 percent of the programs in this sample were run by districts. Navarro began working with Jason in May 2021.

Learning

Learning Report Elementary Dropout

Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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 he has no idea if they’re learning. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Your stories.

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STEM Course Report Study

How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Some universities have already waived the testing requirements for the class of 2021. “I really hope colleges next year will understand all the crap that is going on right now and be more lenient.”.

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

“It’s becoming blatantly apparent that the year they spent in remote learning did not allow them to mature properly,” said Thiebeau, who teaches biology and forensics in a room decorated with animal bones and a taxidermied bear head. Online learning was challenging for many students.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories.

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Study Data Report Personalized Learning

After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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. He said the fall 2021 semester of first-year calculus was the most difficult he’s had in his 50-year career.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. 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. Records show Tameka rarely called back.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary

OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Last spring, tens of millions of students were forced online as their institutions made the emergency transition to remote instruction. Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals.

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Survey Report Accessibility Trends

Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Deishangelxa, 9 years old at the time, struggled with virtual learning and fell far behind. In August 2021, after successive waves of infection saw schools open and close, in-person schooling finally resumed for students on the island, but not for long. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students.

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Elementary Report Dropout System

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JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” ” Via Edsurge : “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ IoT to Represent More Than Half of Connected Device Landscape by 2021.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles

OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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