The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Perez said she only learned of the school’s laptop loan program through another Latina student — after she’d already purchased a new computer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate. This story about high school dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. As students work on their laptops in the common area, teachers come around to work one-on-one with them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Like many colleges, we’ve created a laptop loaner program to meet the needs of both on- and off-campus students by providing year-long access to reliable, new devices. Related: Recent racial incidents involving police are enraging students at our HBCU, and for their sake we need to open as soon as we possibly can.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 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. points higher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In a knit cap and long-sleeve raglan T-shirt, Clause was hovering over his laptop in the co-working space that serves as Rivet’s Richmond outpost, not far from the shipyard where women were recruited into service during World War II by a poster featuring the fictitious Rosie the Riveter, from whom the school took its name.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

He spent more than one morning at his family’s kitchen table, staring at his laptop, his thoughts frayed. But last week, with the campus closed due to the coronavirus, his refuge and the resources that came with it were suddenly gone. His mom eventually came home after her shift at McDonald’s and sat down next to him.

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Once ready, hit play, adjust the playback speed if you like.and I dare you not to close the lid of your laptop like I did, just to process what I just heard. It's also not a perfect simulation -- over the course of 8 to 10 minutes, there are several strange pronunciations, moments of flat affect, glitchy audio, and/or sound dropouts.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Additionally, the school is getting close to having one laptop for every student, and a 3D printer gives students in technology classes a chance to go beyond the conceptual stage of design. Class participation and effort are separated out so students can’t squeeze by with good behavior and obscure a lack of concrete knowledge or skill.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Some have not signed in for a single remote class, and many have not picked up the laptops and hotspots offered by Terra Linda. These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. She denies making this request and says she sought legal help to get them back into school. For the better part of the school year, they tried to learn from home.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. To submit your question or vote on our next topic, click here. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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.

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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.

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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. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With schools mostly online, nearly one in four public school students in Detroit aren’t logging in or showing up , the superintendent says — many because they don’t have laptops or Wi-Fi. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Poor internet, a lack of laptops and hotspots, and instability at home are the factors most commonly cited for making participation in online learning difficult for kids. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. When I asked what she thought about the criticisms of laptop-based learning, she demurred. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

New Rochelle teacher Rose has no idea if lack of internet or laptops are the reasons some of her students haven’t gotten in touch, although she suspects that’s sometimes the case. Glick’s school gave out iPads and laptops to students who needed them, while committees at her school are going door to door to track down the non-responders.

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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

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. Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Colleges and universities have used much of the federal HEERF money to cover extra costs associated with the pandemic — such as buying more laptops and cleaning equipment, setting up hot spots for students and making up for lost tuition revenue. “After I get her focused, I just say, ‘Ania, you can do this.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

On an unremarkable November morning, Jimmie Conner is hunched over his laptop at a dining table in an open-concept kitchen flooded with light. FULLERTON, Calif. — The house, in a pleasant Orange County neighborhood with a park, a reservoir, and horse stables, is furnished in a modular style.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Related: Proof Points: Lessons from college dropouts who came back Wyatt doesnt contact the university on her behalf. In addition to offering credit for prior learning, the university used state grant funding to offer microgrants to help students pay for non-tuition-related expenses, such as car repairs, child care, textbooks and laptops.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Not getting into the classes he needs is a big fear for student James Soberano, a San Jose State freshman majoring in computer engineering who was pecking away at his laptop in the student center. “I It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

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. Students at Lovett Elementary in Clinton, Miss. 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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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students. ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.”

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JULY 28, 2017

“ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? . “ Should big data be used to discourage poor students from university? ” asks ZDNet. ” asks the Pioneer Press. “ Can personalized learning prevail? ” asks Chester E. ”).

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