Assessment, Dropout, Online Learning and Policies

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

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? Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

EdTech

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study

Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

But this innovation is at odds with a generations-old notion of what school should look like and it is spurring debate of the merit of online schools. The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea.

Dropout

Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning

After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

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. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report.

Education

Education Course Report Policies

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why,” said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. “No Related: Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

Data

Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops

Education's Online Futures

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.”

MOOC

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband

Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We believe that the development of everything from policies to facilities to lesson plans should be guided by our compass roses, Critical Attributes of 21st Century Education and the Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

BYOD

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.” Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core

The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Personalized learning, meanwhile, is as ascendant a reform as ever, boosted by many of the same philanthropic entities that have promoted charters: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary

Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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. The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.” “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled.

Education

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System

Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal policies still disadvantage the island, the result of a “quasi-colonial relationship,” said King. take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022.

Elementary

Elementary Report Dropout System

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Those clinics] were a major place where young people go to get care,” said Rachel Fey, vice president of policy and strategic partnerships at Power to Decide. “So Although the Biden administration reversed the rule last year, it’s unclear how many clinics have returned.

Report

Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

Education's Online Futures

Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The messy reality of personalized learning

Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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