The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They’re opting to wait a year because they don’t like the idea of studying online or missing out on a freshman campus experience. 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. Will these students resume their college careers?

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Report Survey Dropout Comparison 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

Dropout 98

Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

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. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 85

techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

Education 40

Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 40

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.

Dropout 110

Dropout Policies Data Report 110

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. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

Digital Divide 113

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. 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.

Education 130

Education Course Report Policies 130

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. Related: Students who counted on work-study jobs now struggle to pay their bills. Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. Small Business Administration and as U.S.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I couldn’t study the way I wanted to.”.

Study 105

Study Report Course Dropout 105

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Especially during the past two years, the interest and necessity of online learning have skyrocketed. . Students have continued pursuing their studies despite prolonged lockdowns through platforms such as learning management systems (LMSs) and video conferencing software. Lower dropout rates.

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LMS Gamification Learning Dropout 345

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

Survey 110

Survey Report Accessibility Trends 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Students planning to enroll at community colleges are in many cases just starting their applications, sometimes without access to the internet at home. Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home.

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. The decrease tracked with the department’s historical experience with online learning.

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Course System Data Strategy 107

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.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

“For kids, captioning is almost a waste of time,” said Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech affiliated with the Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) , a joint project of the university and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf.

Assistive Technology 72

Assistive Technology Blended Learning Report Data 72

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. But asking Kentiona to look after her younger siblings — and maintain her studies — seemed like too much. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

NEW YORK — Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. My biggest worry is the kids I’ve gotten no response from,” said Rose, who is retiring in June and never expected to end her career struggling with online teaching. And now it’s all taken away.”

Broadband 141

Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 141

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 really important to be working on the ground.”.

Laptops 145

Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

They’ve been letting officials know that while they want to see their friends, they recognize the seriousness of the virus and hope districts prioritize student mental health and improving online learning, especially for vulnerable students. Considering that we’re going completely distance learning for the time being,” she said.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 105

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Ending Social Promotion. – Kylie Mollicone, third grade teacher.

Blended Learning 137

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 137

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. ” Ending Social Promotion. "You’re

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Related: PROOF POINTS: Pace of learning back to normal during the 2021-22 pandemic school year but student achievement lags far behind, data shows. She plans to stick with her “beautiful” kids and see them through graduation.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 90

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. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Caleb’s high school was a two-hour bus ride away, to the Futures Program, another GNETS center located in a building where black students once studied during de jure segregation.

Education 82

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). Neither the Rhode Island Parent and Teachers Association nor the state’s two teachers unions oppose the implementation of personalized learning. There are no exceptions to this.”

Personalized Learning 102

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

School is very important to me because I want to keep studying,” she said. “I Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Even in 2017, before Hurricane Maria, about a quarter of the island’s children lacked internet access and half lacked computers at home. I want to become a nurse.”

Elementary 109

Elementary Report Dropout System 109

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 137

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?”

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?” Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55