Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. At the time, teachers wondered if students were really learning or just remembering long enough to get the reward.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 10, 2016
NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. For many young people, the summer ‘opportunity gap’ contributes to gaps in achievement, employment and college and career success.”
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2018
In other words, for every dollar we invest in high-quality pre-K, dropout rates decline. Effective, blended learning—a combination of in-class work with a teacher and technology-delivered instruction—is the best way to accelerate student learning. That will never happen.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing.
Edsurge
JULY 11, 2017
The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2018
Researchers have been skeptical of similarly mixed results from other approaches that, like Threshold, rely heavily on technology, such as blended learning programs, in which online work is integrated into classroom settings, and virtual schools, where students primarily learn through online learning platforms.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2020
The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.
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