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3 Strategies to Combat Summer Learning Loss

Digital Promise

NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. Mineola Union Free School District made iPads available to students all summer long.

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Challenging Educational Technology

The Electric Educator

Researchers have failed again and again to show that students using computers in classrooms will improve test scores, lift graduation rates, and reduce dropouts. Dan Rezac If you think the iPad (or any other idevice) is the answer to life''s questions? The third error they make is to indulge in magical thinking.

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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

In the years since, the district has made a number of structural changes – including redesigning its grading system, changing the length of class periods in the high school, switching from iPods to iPads and better using those devices to transform instruction rather than just provide a new medium for traditional activities – but Robins said the most (..)

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. As he passed, some students said “Hey, Mr. Nate” and high-fived him.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Most learners have access to a tablet device, iPad, or some other form of smartphone device, but many don't have physical books at home. What is available to my learners at school and at home?

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Can kids get passionate about learning — and develop the persistence to follow where it leads? One school has a plan

The Hechinger Report

In a Lego robotics expedition, fifth- and sixth-graders hunched over iPads trying to figure out how to make their robots move. During the Elm City expeditions, such persistence was evident. Children encountered problems and were driven to find solutions. A group of three appeared to be frustrated.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Shawn Young, chief executive of Classcraft, a tech company that produces educational games and other products, likens the current momentum around social-emotional learning to past trends such as the push to bring laptops and iPads to every student.