The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. The book is part of a social-emotional learning strategy used by Washington-Lee Elementary School and a growing number of schools nationwide. BRISTOL, Va. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Les suministramos laptops y tabletas, así como puntos de acceso a wi-fi a todas las alumnas que lo necesitaban”, dijo Hall. Ella dijo que el personal ha hecho lo que ha podido para mantenerse en contacto con las alumnas, la mayoría de las cuales optaron por recibir sus clases desde sus casas durante el año escolar.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Much of Barela’s vision will remain.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. In Wood’s suburban Massachusetts district, elementary school educators were so concerned about their students they held a car parade , driving through streets and shouting greetings from a distance. Will we get yearbooks? said Glick. “I

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. “We were just trying to get through.”. National figures tell a similar tale. racial group. We just weren’t prepared to handle the loss of the school as an internet hub,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said. The hands-on work isn’t as good as the teacher,” Kentiona said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. work on laptops during class. By earlier accounts , this program helped lower the number of high school “dropout factories” with increased graduation rates and boosted test scores in about two-thirds of the schools in the program. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We Any time a student or student’s family member got sick this year, school staff reached out and encouraged them to get treatment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

He toggled between Minecraft on his laptop endlessly stacking blocks on a virtual grid and social media on his phone. Many are high school dropouts. He lets students, who increasingly come in reading at an early elementary level, do the GED prep class at their own pace and tackle the tests in their chosen order.

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