Dropout, Elementary and Student Engagement

Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Reports highlight that many students struggle with self-discipline in an online environment, leading to higher dropout rates compared to traditional settings. Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education.

Classroom

Classroom Study Online Learning Accessibility

Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2019

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Related content: 5 discussion tools to fuel student engagement.

Dropout

Dropout Secondary Advocacy Elementary

OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Some districts mandate lottery admission processes — but voc-tech schools often prefer to review students’ disciplinary and attendance records before admitting them. For instance, if a student engages in horseplay while holding a welding torch, students and teachers could be put at risk. The stakes at voc-techs are high.

Dropout

Dropout Industry Secondary Elementary

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Why does that matter? All schools are equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. COLUMBIA, Mo. Teaching'

Student Engagement

Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data

What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base Study Assessment Dropout

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. . The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown. Why does that matter?

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They still are, but as the academy enters its sixth full year, its student outcomes are drawing praise from a variety of sources, even while administrators note that steep challenges remain. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

Learning

Learning Dropout Report Elementary

OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Many students engaged in honest and vulnerable conversations about their feelings with friends and family for the first time. With the pandemic conversion to telehealth, many teens initially felt more confident than their parents or guardians navigating the online health portals.

Handbook

Handbook Groups Meeting Study

Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. And, the goals for students engaged in this type of learning include self-esteem, empathy, motivation, and commitment.

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout

5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children. “The first week that we did virtual education, we missed 350 students,” Mathews says.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting

To solve for ALL kids, start with ONE…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. And, I’ll share an intuitive 8 step approach you can use to tackle big problems like student engagement or work completion. Okay, great.

System

System Case Study Course Examples

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. They’ve got to have a focus on the younger students, on the students who are transitioning to high school.” Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement.

Dropout

Dropout Chromebook Report System

Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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. We don’t have eyes on our students.

Elementary

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops

“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. We’re seeing some issues with student engagement, and we’re also seeing some issues with students just having the stamina to make it through a whole day of school, make it through five days in a row of school.

Elementary

Elementary Broadband Dropout Assessment

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Improving reading skills and SEL through text-based discussions

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement

What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

To solve for ALL kids, start with ONE…

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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