Dropout, Laptops and Online Learning

In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez. That was just so nice.”. It’s pretty crazy right now.

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

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. Redland Elementary Principal Adrian Montes works one-on-one with a student who wasn’t signing on for online learning. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. Native American college students have declined the most, down 11 percent.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. She worked as a home health aide and couldn’t monitor Ezekiel online.

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Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. 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. They have art, they have gym, they have lunch and they have teachers they know.

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting

Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. During her childhood of dealing with family strife, which took her to towns across rural Maine, rarely staying at a school for longer than a year or two, learning was never a priority. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

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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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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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The messy reality of personalized learning

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. You can log on and see what your kids are learning, how they’re doing,” she explained. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

“Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? “ Can personalized learning prevail? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Not sure where you plot this on the “hype cycle.”

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In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

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