Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Here’s how it works: Sign up for a free version of Nepris (it comes with one live virtual session and access to hundreds of recorded sessions).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

That behavior seems to be headed for the history books. A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. When a Millennial or Gen Z-er accesses a new consumer app, it is as simple as opening the morning newspaper is for their parents or grandparents.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

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. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says.

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edWeb.net

MAY 4, 2022

In Fayette County Public Schools, there are family engagement coordinators in every school, and those coordinators played a similar role in providing laptops, hot spots, books, and food during the pandemic. In addition, the students receive similar books to read on their own. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Anthony Abraham Jack is the author of the new book, “The Privileged Poor,’’ which looks at ways elite institutions can do a better job with scholarship students. Jack’s book is based on deep research at a so-called “Renowned University,” where he conducted interviews with more than 100 scholarship students. (He

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. “Giving them access to the SEEK program is giving them $4,000 a year,” said Friedman. CUNY kicks in additional funds to cover their fees and gives them a stipend to pay for books.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. Not all colleges are being heaped with praise, however, and the contrasts are striking.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. She couldn’t rely on her mother, who has never attended college and was just as confused.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. She can read the same books as her peers ― even if they’re in a modified format. It would not work for Matthew, Comeaux suspected. . • That has to be worth something. “It

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The book includes a chapter Hartlep helped write, which shows that work college students, on average, graduate with less debt than those at private and public four-year universities. Higher Education.” Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

The first error that technology enthusiasts make is to overemphasize the importance of students’ access to technology in schools and underestimate teachers’ influence on students’ learning. Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr is not an educator, but has written several books regarding the impact technology is having on society.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Maria Romo-Gonzalez, a 22-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley, struggles with spotty internet access; her mom’s salary as a grocery store cashier doesn’t allow for extras.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pandemic era’s wide-scale disruption also makes it a good time to consider changing long-held educational practices, said Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan who is co-writing a book about new ways of assessing students and has tried some in his own classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library. There’s nothing to say they read fewer books or cover less content. And all instruction is delivered one-on-one or in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The chapter of his book devoted to gun violence and gun control is particularly compelling. He laments that his tenure in Chicago will be remembered for this more than for creating community schools, increasing access to Advanced Placement classes in high schools, and raising the high school graduation rate by 12 percentage points.

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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. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices. What offers a wealth of literary resources?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 We have to make space for them to access the content.”. One reason seems to be that it gives them access to grade-level content that otherwise might be unavailable for months or years as they learn English but end up falling behind in other subjects.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

The treatment was a multifaceted and expensive program that included not only free tuition and books for three years, from 2015 to 2018, but also a $50 a month stipend. Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 She has opened the books to faculty and students, holding meetings with them complete with PowerPoint presentations in which she’s spoken frankly about the problems. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Youth who remain in the child welfare system until age 21 have more time to access federal financial aid and assistance from social workers. DHHS staff work from the Seita office to help students access state grants and to provide other support. Tinai says the Seita program has been a support system for him from day one.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Several Pennsylvania universities and colleges have started scholarships for students from rural Schuylkill County, a onetime coal-producing area, using millions from a foundation set up by textile industry entrepreneur John E. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. How can teaching technology help improve effectiveness in the classroom?

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” It’s more balanced that the introduction and chapter 1.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. At the same time, programs to fight this phenomenon are expanding amid a growing body of research suggesting that they work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

The Oregon Tribal Student Grant covers tuition, housing and books at public institutions and some private universities for undergraduate and graduate students belonging to Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

That’s the core argument of a new book by Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education at the innovation-focused Christensen Institute. Creating adult networks for students. The mission of most schools is to expand what students know. But maybe they should care about the people students know, too. Networks matter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. She plans to stick with her “beautiful” kids and see them through graduation. They need a mentor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

You can’t just make an animated phrase book.”. For kids, captioning is almost a waste of time,” said Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech affiliated with the Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) , a joint project of the university and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf. “You

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. One of Jackson’s first graders has missed some 20 days of school this fall because of various challenges, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2019

How such decisions are made are clearly explained in education writer Paul Tough’s insightful new book, “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.”. Related: Fixing a higher education caste system that screams inequality.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

“In those 50 years there has been only one program that has shown any validity at all in helping low-income and minority students: lowering class size,” said Spring, who wrote a book attacking programs like AVID called “Weapons of Mass Deception.” “[E]very dollar you put into AVID is a dollar you take away from lowering class sizes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Most evenings after work he hits the books in pursuit of an associate’s degree in business administration. “The student is the one who takes the classes, but it’s a family event.”. Since his daughter Alexis enrolled at St. Mary’s, Robert Aranda has gone back to school himself.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

Being able to have a discussion about … books is a lot of what I did in high school,” she said. “I Not only will students in its early grades do more research and weekly writing, they’ll start to learn good studying, note-taking and organizing strategies in fourth grade. I didn’t feel overwhelmed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In high school, his teachers gave general tips on how to handle college work, such as using an assignment book to keep track of your due dates. He’d talk to his professor about not having the book. That’s very easy to tell somebody,” Hendricks said. People talked about it loosely. This way, he has constant reminders about his workload.

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