eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Advocates of online learning cite flexibility and access, while proponents of in-person instruction emphasize social interaction and hands-on learning. In online learning vs. classroom learning research debates, both sides grapple with balancing effectiveness and equity.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Classroom Learning E-rate 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic. But nature abhors a vacuum.

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Data Dropout Industry Competency Based Learning 177

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. Just ask a parent trying to take the place of educators while working from home.).

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia.

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Dropout Course Assessment Secondary 107

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. A passionate educator, Dr. Johnson supports educational leadership development, scholarship, service, and helping students envision and attain their postsecondary goals.

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Dropout Secondary Learning Course 84

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It's about the front page story covering the announcement that some colleges are planning to offer 'cut price' qualifications that rely on a combination of podcasting, online learning and remote self study. Just how was the decision to offer 'cut price education' arrived at? Image by Steve Wheeler Cut price education?

E-rate 53

E-rate Education Dropout Online Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. The number of new students is down 23 percent. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Report Survey Dropout Comparison 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity.

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 106

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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Education Secondary Dropout Online Learning 58

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Gone is the urgency to find the students who left — those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

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. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

Dropout 126

Dropout Policies Data Report 126

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

We can channel that money, instead of building new jails and prisons, to educating the children that are in those jails and are not being served. In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance.

Personalized Learning 114

Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 114

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Data Science: Moving into the education sector. When imparting education is becoming more digitized day by day, can decision making for the same using data science be far behind? The education industry, like any other, is highly sophisticated. It comes with the promise of deciding the course of education. learning delays.

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Data E-rate Dropout Adaptive Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. The Charter School of San Diego is one of the schools using that program, yet its educational model has drawn praise.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

The program’s creator, Emanuel Pariser, is a longtime Maine educator who has worked with at-risk youth at private and independent schools in the state. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Related: Held back, but not helped. Weekly Update.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 101

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.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

Dropout 40

Dropout How To Learning Policies 40

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

Blended Learning 177

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 177

techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all. Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. That’s why innovative educators across the country are implementing creative programs to better meet those needs. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

Education 41

Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 41

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Few have received much guidance from administrators on how to handle discipline issues that arise in remote learning and in school buildings where education has been reshaped by new health and safety guidelines. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Credit: Rosamund Looney.

Guidelines 144

Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. But this innovation is at odds with a generations-old notion of what school should look like and it is spurring debate of the merit of online schools.

Dropout 60

Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. Opportunities for online learning. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances.

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STEM Course Report Study 136

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.” DeMillo links Crow to good old and doomed Fathom.com (1152).

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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

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. In synchronous classes, it is enough for a student to be present. It sometimes takes him hours to type assignments.

Policies 144

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. In my last newsletter, I looked at some of the first bills to tackle education this year. Subscribe today!

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning. “All

Digital Divide 125

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 125

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s one of a small but growing number of places where experts are testing new ideas that will shape the future of a college education, using everything from blockchain networks to computer simulations to artificial intelligence, or AI. One of these would transform even the way that students pay for higher education.

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Course Pearson Accessibility Company 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. It is learning support at exactly the right time you need it to be successful,” said Vicki P. It helped out a lot.”.

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Course System Data Strategy 117

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. The constantly growing needs of the education sector have added to the pressures of teaching.

Technology 52

Technology eBook Gamification Classroom 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Higher education is often at the forefront when it comes to researching and reforming other industries, but when reimagining its own institutions, things operate at a dawdling pace. Rather than ask, “Why is higher education so expensive, saddling students with debt?,” We can move more expeditiously. First, we must reframe the question.

Industry 113

Industry Policies Accessibility Course 113

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

They agonized over college costs and decisions, uncertain how drastically the virus would reshape their family’s finances and their educations. Weise, author of the new Lifelong Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet, and a senior vice president for workforce strategies at Strada Education Network. She didn’t.).

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 108

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday. By Guest Blogger Andrew Ujifusa. Former U.S.

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Company Dropout Advocacy Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Report Policies Trends Mobility 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Robotics Learning Report Common Core 99