Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

Dropout 63

Dropout Comparison Data Company 63

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Watch the video to see how it works.

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Dropout Education Data Software 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. My district's purchase of a new blended learning software followed the same formula.

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EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Here's the count-down of the most-listened-to episodes of the year. Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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Dropout Digital Citizenship System EdTech 147

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Florence Xiaotao Ran, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware and the lead researcher on the Tennessee study, explained to me that the dropouts appear to be different types of students than the ones earning more credits. Others schedule computer lab time where students practice math problems on educational software.

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Course Data Dropout Analysis 142

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

And software developers and engineers help streamline communications and manage multiple projects — keeping customers’ lights on and our economy humming. For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Research tells us having a person of color teach them has a positive impact on students of all backgrounds, but particularly on the dropout rates of black students. No single software solution or hiring team can remove these systemic biases. We also know that attracting and retaining teachers of color presents unique challenges.

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Dropout Trends Data Secondary 112

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

He also uses Mobymax, a software that boasts the ability to help students “find and fix” learning gaps in several subjects. Dr. Rick Carter However, Brown stresses that no software works well without support from parents and teachers. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Dropout 117

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Along with a software engineer, he started a nonprofit, EdNudge , to build tools that would help schools deliver personalized nudges to students and parents via text automatically. Colleges already send “ nudges ” and “early-warning alerts” in an effort to boost student retention rates and reduce dropout rates.

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Outcomes Dropout Company Study 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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Dropout Study Report System 96

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2017

One of the reasons that translation software may never replace native speakers is the subtleties in language and context. Our ability to successfully communicate determines our success in almost every personal and professional relationship we have. Communication is a very nuanced thing. It’s that command of subtleties that moves education.

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Education Dropout Industry Meeting 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road.

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Company Training Industry Dropout 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Critics complain that the schools lack rigor and often use software programs vulnerable to cheating , such as Edgenuity. His remarks come amid heavy public scrutiny of online programs, as schools and districts pressured to boost their graduation numbers increasingly turn to computer software to get students over the finish line.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Z-Space lab with AR/VR software ? CAD software. TOOLS THEY USE COXSACKIE-ATHENS ? Google Classroom ? OverDrive ?

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Data Dropout Company Report 111

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software. Ending Social Promotion.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 172

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. Rouguiatou Diallo and Stephanie Castaños of Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. billion in revenue last year.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday.

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Company Dropout Advocacy Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. Students, too, have been struggling with all the new software, said Veronica Tenesaca, a tutor with Saga Education, which matches tutors with traditionally underserved students. Breakout rooms are even harder to monitor.

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STEM Course Report Study 135

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence. Software can also integrate student data into teacher programs to help them track progress in ways unthinkable several years ago.

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 105

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on software investing and majority owner of Illuminate and KDS, facilitated the combination. About Illuminate Education Illuminate Education is a leading provider of K-12 software and services. For more information on: www.alpineachievement.com.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Over the summer, Miami-Dade County Public Schools introduced new online learning software that will make it easier for students and their caregivers to log on remotely and will, ideally, increase participation in online learning this fall, Montes said. Related: Homeless students set adrift by school closures face crisis after crisis.

Elementary 145

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

on his blog , he’s opined that most adaptive software focuses on knowledge acquisition instead of helping students in learning to think and function in modern society. These technologies encourage more self-driven, open-ended exploration—skills that Siemens says are increasingly important for humans to function in their careers and society.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

His laboratory is developing software to animate ASL avatars. Matt Huenerfauth (right), director of the Linguistic and Assistive Technologies Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology, records video and motion-capture data from someone performing American Sign Language (ASL). Photo: John Myer.

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Blended Learning Assistive Technology Report Data 83

MindShift

MARCH 3, 2017

This time, working with the largest school district in West Virginia, they built software that communicated directly with the electronic gradebook that teachers were already using, and they used the phone numbers parents provided on class lists. Bergman told NPR Ed that he has been researching the power of texting parents for about six years.

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Dropout Study Software Outcomes 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In addition to designing and racing cars, students learn how to use graphic design software under the instruction of a special education teacher. The class Cantu described counts toward graduation requirements and is offered for students with disabilities in partnership with the University of Oklahoma.

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Education Elementary Meeting Study 100

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. This is very exciting research!

BYOD 46

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 46

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. 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.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Raritan put a chunk of its relief money — about $250,000 — toward a new software package that helps students map their shortest pathway to a degree. Without the HEERF money, there’s no way the school could have afforded the software, said Raritan President Michael McDonough. They’re talking about long-term goals. So the school used $1.6

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Software Report Adobe Trends 117

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. At 360 High School, also in Providence and serving a smaller but demographically similar student body, I observed teachers use what the school’s principal, Kerry Tuttlebee, calls a patchwork of D.I.Y.

Personalized Learning 110

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Conference strands include Teaching with Technology, Student Devices, Online Learning, Subject Specific Ed Tech, Creative Ed Tech, Web 2.0 & Social Software, and Administrative Support. asks educators/teachers to show how they are using Internet software or sites and mobile apps in innovative and creative ways in their teaching.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Learning Libraries 46

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems? The big ed-tech downgrade news this week makes an appearance in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111