The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Both he and his dad took out loans for Paul to go to college, which covered tuition, but he still needs to buy a few books for this semester, and then there’s rent and food.

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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 Their classroom libraries stock books by Isabel Allende and other Latin American literary giants. “In percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent. and abroad. Dania Vázquez, Margarita Muñiz Academy Headmaster.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core?

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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. These tools can easily be integrated with third-party apps such as LMS, CMS, and other content delivery platforms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE! Did we mention it was LIVE? Register for free at [link].

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). We reach further back in history here, following the track of DeMillo’s previous book Abelard To Apple. Simply snag a copy of the book from your library or MIT Press or the local bookshop or Amazon (etc.),

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - National Library Week. National Library Week is this week, and the theme is "Lives change @ your library®." How does your library manage digital collections?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates. We can say, ‘Is it the paddling, is it the spanking?’ And we can say yes.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Partner Announcements Amazing People Institute : Amazing People Library launch a digital story collection unlike any other.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Learning Management Systems (LMS): provide students’ activity records as well as students’ performance information. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Even as early as 2006 and 2007, it was apparent to sociologists Lori Peek and Alice Fothergill, authors of the book “Children of Katrina,” that students were falling way behind as a result of the storm and its aftermath. Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. I shouldn’t even be in this room with all of these book-smart kids,’ ” he said. “I I shouldn’t even be in this room with all of these book-smart kids,’ ” he remembers thinking as he worked toward a degree as a single father.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 31, 2016

If you want to learn about progressive ideas in the areas of grading, assessment, and homework, check out Joe's book, De-Testing + De-Grading Schools , one of his talks , and his blog. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis. Joe's writing was always informative and inspirational.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. The library is old — and it kind of stinks. school system is a “mess.” Do they feel that way? Magdalena Slapik has been asking them. Other rooms you can’t turn it on.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

While not every arrested student is on the honor roll like Elliott, they all have strengths that Rhodes and her team describe to judges: Some love Harry Potter books; some excel at band or athletics; others have never been issued a behavioral demerit. I hit the books hard, so that I would graduate.”. I hit the books hard.”.

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif. This year, Gov.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. ” “The Case for Learning Platform Grade Book ” by Mindwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The College of New Rochelle on Monday announced 32 layoffs, including 10 tenured faculty members.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, a coalition of organizations focused on literacy, headed by the nonprofit Flamboyan Foundation, holds workshops to train teachers in how to teach reading, stocks school libraries with culturally appropriate books and educates the broader community on the importance of reading. We are making a clarion call for help.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

His death was one of a series of attacks on immigrants in the area, according to the journalist Mirta Ojito’s book on the killing. The ideas stemmed from the group’s twice-monthly meetings at the Patchogue library, where they talked about parenting, navigating their new American home, and the schools.

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Groups Report Meeting Resources 111

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“Dear Mrs. Trump” by Liz Phipps Soeiro – why the librarian refused the books the First Lady sent to her school. ’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.”

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