EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

More and more employers are eager to hire potential candidates who already have hard skills in core IT areas , such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and user-experience design, according to LinkedIn Learning. All of this adds up to one unfortunate conclusion — our country’s skills gap isn’t just hurting our energy infrastructure.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. Usually, when new hires succeed, so does the company.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Yet most legislators and educators do not have access to these articles. We can move more expeditiously.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As a consequence, he said, “I’ve seen my students’ ability to learn, to write, to comprehend material plummet” — including the many, Hunt pointed out, who are destined to go on to work as history teachers. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. When a Millennial or Gen Z-er accesses a new consumer app, it is as simple as opening the morning newspaper is for their parents or grandparents. This is not a case where more programs and more people will make a difference.

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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 Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”. I have literally hung up the phone and had to cry, because the problems are so deep.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He could make cuts, but that was complicated in his industry, and would likely only speed the downward spiral. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There exists another example of diversity that is often overlooked, but which is finally gaining more visibility and attention in higher education and in various industry sectors: neurodiversity. Neurodiversity describes a natural variation in our species, typically in terms of how one learns and/or operates.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Rensselaer Polytech language students learn Mandarin Chinese by conversing with AI avatars. The learner, the learning provider and the employer all are speaking different languages that don’t interconnect.”. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times. MANCHESTER, N.H. Related: Is California saving higher education?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Last fall, nearly six and a half years after my SMART board was fixed, I started a new job and became a deeper learning coordinator, leading the implementation and creation of an edtech ecosystem for the entire Reynoldsburg school district. My district's purchase of a new blended learning software followed the same formula.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. You’re talking about an industry that believes in marginal change. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K. This is a not-uncommon faculty refrain.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2011

The scientific management system we use in educational leadership today tends to bring us consistently to the four failures of information learning and applied action identified by the 9/11 Commission Report: failures of management, imagination, policy, and capacity. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. PedsAcademy offers kids rare opportunities for engaging, high-tech learning while they’re at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando. Learning through hospital stays.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

But she has no interest in the food industry. Nearly 80 percent of students with learning disabilities had jobs, compared to 45 percent of those with autism and 55 percent of those with an emotional disturbance, the federal report found. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. At this time, the bakery job suffices.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In each place, the P-TECH model brings together a school district, a community college and local industry. Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Learning can happen anytime, anywhere. Geographic and socio-economic factors no longer have to be barriers to learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

The cloud can serve as a force multiplier in achieving this goal, putting additional tools to enhance student learning directly into the hands of educators. Indeed, hundreds of millions of students, educators, and researchers in more than 200 countries and territories have access to education technologies and online curricula running on AWS.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Having access to a social network of other people who have dealt with similar experiences is very beneficial.”. Alisha Jucevic for The New York Times. A GED and a college degree, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. I think the whole industry is going to have to do this.”. Related: The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. If we’re serious in this country about diversity, equity and inclusion, community colleges are where these students are learning,” said Martha Parham, the AACC’s senior vice president for public relations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

We stayed open the entire time,” said Dawn Hall, the principal at Lincoln Park, which offered its students the option to learn online or in-person for most of the past school year. She said staff did everything they could to stay in touch with their students, most of whom opted to learn from home, during the school year. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I That didn’t make Deas feel any better. She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Several Pennsylvania universities and colleges have started scholarships for students from rural Schuylkill County, a onetime coal-producing area, using millions from a foundation set up by textile industry entrepreneur John E. Morgan, who came from there and who, with his wife, developed the waffle stitch used in thermal underwear.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

. “The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? “ Can AR/VR Improve Learning? Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ U.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Well, I guess I need to keep an eye on how the tutoring industry rebrands itself what with all the investment dollars it’s receiving. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Let’s not worry that there are many people who do not have access to electricity, let alone Internet, let alone digital devices.). “ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? Accreditation and Certification.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Ever wonder how stories covered by popular edtech outlets – such as edSurge, eSchoolNews, Tech & Learning, and THE Journal – get selected? Who would have ever guessed that open access publishing leads to the wider dissemination of ideas? Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology.

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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?”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” Google is acquiring machine learning contest site Kaggle. That’s UC Berkeley.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry.

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