The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Related: Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs. Despite what skeptics say about online courses, Altus administrators insist that their curriculum passes muster. Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say.

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Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. That’s why innovative educators across the country are implementing creative programs to better meet those needs. Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all.

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Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 40

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. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 77

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

And while that makes her sad, it’s not what bothers her most after 34 years in the classroom. “My 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. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning.

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. Bookbags hanging outside a classroom in Delia Dávila de Cabán School in Toa Baja, an elementary school about 25 miles outside San Juan. Teachers across Puerto Rico say they have received little assistance in meeting their students’ changing needs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning. If I taught to the middle, I could lose the ends.

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Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The McKenna Center functions as a home for the pods, but pod leaders and students have flexibility to decide where and when to meet to accommodate students’ schedules. The state has contracted with Prenda, an online education provider, to hire “guides” to supervise multi-age pods of five to 10 children.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

But they also worry that if students don’t receive adequate counseling and other support to cope with emotional challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, there will be a surge in behavioral issues and punitive discipline when more children return to classrooms. “I Credit: Rosamund Looney.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 142

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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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

At Threshold, program staff get to know students through an extensive initial interview process, learning about their backgrounds, previous academic experiences and what kinds of requirements they still need to graduate. From there, teachers design individualized projects to help each student meet standards.

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Dropout Blended Learning Report Course 90

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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Education Course Report Policies 127

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses.

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STEM Report Course Study 126

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 131

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

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. 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. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

As another part of the information-gathering effort, #OaklandUndivided tapped into data from the online learning platforms schools were using — Google Classroom and Clever — to see which students were logging in through a computer or mobile phone to access online resources. for only a few weeks.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. A prevailing sentiment among the teachers is how impossible it is to effectively support students in the classroom while ignoring what happens once they leave. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

It’s a little hard to map out an exact perfect scenario, but ensure that those kids have a tutor, ideally, a certified and experienced teacher, and if not, someone who’s getting a lot of training and support, and that those tutors are meeting with those kids from day one of the school year, if not before, to help them catch up,” said Socol.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Snyder heads out of his office and into classrooms. Snyder says he likes to get into classrooms when he can, and he will soon conduct formal teacher observations for the state’s evaluation system. But today he still has a few more things to do before tomorrow’s meeting with the board. Around 10 a.m.,

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Elementary Training Report Policies 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Sunday, April 26th at 7pm TechEducator Podcast: 10 Ways to be a Rock Star Teacher in your Classroom , Are you interested in creating dynamic hands on lesson plans that leave your students wanting to come back to class the next day? Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students.

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Libraries Game-Based Learning lynda.com Trends 28

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” More on the politics of online education in the politics section above.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

. “Faculty,” as this year’s ECAR study put it , “have a love-hate relationship with online teaching and learning. Most faculty agree that online learning makes higher education available to more students, but few agree that online learning helps students learn more effectively.”

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