eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

6, 2021 – VHS Learning, an accredited non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, has appointed Dr. Yolanda D. We are honored to welcome her as a VHS Learning trustee.”. About VHS Learning. Boston – Dec. Johnson to its board of directors. Dr. Johnson holds a B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. Why not learn something while we’re here?”.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 73

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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Education Survey Learning Dropout 89

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Parents in both the virtual and blended learning programs are interviewed before students enter to ensure students are supported throughout the online learning process at home. We sit down with students and create a personalized learning plan for each of them. Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 107

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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Education Dropout Course Study 122

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia. McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform.

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Dropout Course Assessment Secondary 100

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. That growth ended up exploding as the acceptance of online learning grew, then got an unexpected boost from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Data Dropout Industry Competency Based Learning 157

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Students risk getting stuck in deficient online programs for weeks or even months without the support they need and falling behind in their academics.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Now Williams and school staff are heading back out into the field, trying to relocate the siblings and other children who’ve gone missing and reengage them in learning this fall. They replaced the hodgepodge of learning platforms and apps with more uniform systems, eliminating multiple passwords and making them easier to navigate.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Those learning remotely from afar are classified as enrolled and are not among these empty seats.) 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.

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Report Dropout Survey Comparison 137

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Over months of reporting, the AP learned of students and families avoiding school for a range of reasons. 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.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 113

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A district offers students 6 instructional models—an approach that has led to zero dropouts. We have implemented a ‘zero dropout’ policy that does not allow students to drop out of our district,” he said. Next page: How the district juggles PBL, online learning, and more.

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Dropout How To Learning Policies 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This study of data has now grown into a dedicated field and Data Science learning is becoming a sought-after career. Data Science leverages modern technologies like AI and machine learning in continuously adapting to various scenarios where security might be a concern. learning delays. Get an overall view including: attrition.

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Data E-rate Dropout Adaptive Learning 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. Often that involved thinking differently about how, when and where teaching and learning actually occur. Opportunities for online learning. Weekly Update.

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 61

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” .

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

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

JUNE 4, 2018

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. “It Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Cousins says she is “not a book person.”

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 101

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

It's about the front page story covering the announcement that some colleges are planning to offer 'cut price' qualifications that rely on a combination of podcasting, online learning and remote self study. Will colleges who wish to cut the costs of their programmes stomach such a dropout statistic? I think not.

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E-rate Education Dropout Online Learning 53

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. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, teachers want their students to master content, develop a love of learning and move on to the next grade. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. If you don’t have a relationship with them, they won’t learn,” said Glick, who has taught many of her students for both seventh and eighth grade. “In

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Emerging at the height of the pandemic, pods (or “hubs” as they are sometimes called) were organized primarily by middle-class, college-educated parents and community groups to provide safe, supportive spaces for virtual learning. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 89

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. When you don’t have basic needs met, you can’t learn.”. “I I have literally hung up the phone and had to cry, because the problems are so deep,” Ward said. Seventy percent said they were falling behind.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 142

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Meanwhile, an e-learning student got in trouble for filming another student during class without permission. Few have received much guidance from administrators on how to handle discipline issues that arise in remote learning and in school buildings where education has been reshaped by new health and safety guidelines.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Greenfield model uses some rather commonplace strategies, such as integrating online learning, small-group instruction and greater parental and community involvement. Where the model pushes boundaries is in the addition of learning experiences called “expeditions.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Robotics Learning Report Common Core 97

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

We all remember classmates who sat in the back of the room, eyes glued to a comic or dog-eared paperback, anything to escape a learning environment that did not—or could not—engage them. Many valid questions have been raised about online schools. How do you know learning is happening? Where is the accountability?

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, 12, had been having panic attacks about school even before a letter arrived at his home last month, threatening legal action for his alleged absences from distance learning. The sixth grader has been attending online class from his home outside Austin, Texas, since August, and having difficulties adjusting.

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So he has no idea if they’re learning. So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. For many students it’s been a lonely year, and algebra is tougher to learn while peering at a screen, say teachers and researchers. “I

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STEM Course Report Study 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her high school had recently closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and shifted to distance learning. 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 Escaping poverty.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. Because everyone is in a really different environment at home.” Credit: Sophia Hammer.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Education Secondary Dropout Online Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. Remote learning didn’t hold their attention. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

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

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Education Course Report Policies 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 141

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Online preschool has become a contentious topic nationwide. Subscribe today!

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 52