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. Consuela Robinson, 35, returned to college in 2017 after dropping out more than a decade earlier, working two, sometimes three jobs to make ends meet.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. The conversations that are happening are happening outside of staff meetings.”. Other students struggled with the freedom of toting the personal Chromebook laptops the school gave out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

To increase the number of Americans with degrees by 33 percent in less than a decade, colleges will have to get much better at serving the kinds of students who have historically fallen through the cracks, and they will have to do so fast to meet that target. Graduation rates for poor students haven’t budged much in the past four decades.

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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 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. College counselor Brad Ward meets with school principal Katy Dunlap at Terra Linda High School. She and her colleagues hope to reach every senior by email, phone or social media. That’s a problem, says Dunlap.

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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. I’ll meet people eventually.”. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. —

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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. Meetings, not so much. Meetings, not so much. So many meetings.”. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Coding he liked.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Twice per week for 45 minutes, students meet with about 10 of their peers and one teacher. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” But they also saw benefits.

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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.

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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 Choi wouldn’t put a target on further expansion.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When teachers at Cable Elementary in San Antonio couldn’t reach four siblings who attended the school this spring, Monica Williams of Communities in Schools was able to arrange a meeting with them at their grandmother’s house. Williams arranged to meet the children at their grandmother’s. Credit: Monica Williams.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Newcomb High School is a public school located in the Navajo Nation, around 70 miles south of the Four Corners Monument where New Mexico meets Arizona, Colorado and Utah, in a school district that spans almost 3,000 square miles. Jake, who, like Curley, is Navajo, lived up a remote mountain road with no cell phone service. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Now, during morning meetings via Google classroom, Glick is the one being peppered with questions – and often she can’t answer them. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

She was making ends meet by working as a cashier at a local gas station, until an injury took her off the job. 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

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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

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 24, 2024

Dan Hurley, CEO of the Michigan Association of State Universities, said enrolling students over the age of 25 is critical to meeting the states goal of 60 percent of adults having a certificate or a degree by 2030. Related: Proof Points: Lessons from college dropouts who came back Wyatt doesnt contact the university on her behalf.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. 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

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MARCH 3, 2017

.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. School district boasts it’s giving laptops to migrant students.

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