Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. Take, for example, the growing interest in Attendance Works’ services.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 205

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. It’s pretty crazy right now. I wake up like it’s a nightmare.”.

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Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

Dropout 125

Dropout Policies Data Report 125

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. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Teacher Juliana Rothschild said that because she can individualize projects for each student, she can tie their interests into their learning. She gives one example of a student who disliked writing papers. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate. And the school gets punished with this.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We That usually means she’s not enrolled any more.”. We had some momentum,” Ward said.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Rosamund Looney, who teaches first grade in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, said that because of the stresses of the pandemic and online learning, “we need to grant a lot of grace and accomodations.” Credit: Rosamund Looney. Over the same period in 2019, the figure was 114.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, college faculty publish papers in journals with conclusions that incorporate policy and practical recommendations. These are three examples of steps that postsecondary schools can take to serve the public good and enhance their perceived and actual value.

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Industry Policies Accessibility Course 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person. But some ambitious concepts are already well into the testing stages.

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Course Pearson Accessibility Company 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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Education Course Report Policies 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students. The ESSR funds expire in 2024.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

She learned remotely either full time or part time for more than a year. Although math is one of her favorite subjects, she found some parts of her coursework challenging when she was learning online. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes.

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Study Data Report Personalized Learning 141

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

He sees some criticisms as missing the point, when, for example, critics spot bad quality in classes, but don’t notice their rapid correction (1218), a point Clay Shirky made back in late 2012. Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253).

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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

We publish the math, showing how we address these issues, and share all our motion-capture recordings with the world,” said Huenerfauth, so that other labs can replicate and build off their findings.

Blended Learning 85

Blended Learning Assistive Technology Report Data 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Princeton University, for example, this year admitted only 1,896 students from among 32,804 applicants; Georgetown University had its third year in a row of record-low acceptance rates. “In In the elite schools there will be growth,” he predicts.

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Education Policies System Survey 121

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For example, I’m really interested in languages, so I’m taking two languages right now. For example, Mrs. Reese, she’s like my second mother. We have about 500 kids now. The school’s so small, you kind of know everyone. It’s really diverse. We focus on gifted education. You can really kind of go in whatever path you want.

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System Report Examples Study 64

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Again, the result is stunted learning. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. For example, the Title X Family Planning Program funds clinics that provide contraception and other care (except abortion) to millions of low-income and uninsured women.

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Report Accessibility Social Media Outcomes 141