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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. These basic tenets can guide our stance: 1.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. The Illinois system is far from fixed.

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STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside

The Hechinger Report

school system is a “mess.” That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. The post STUDENT VOICES: The education system encourages students to be dead inside appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Do they feel that way? . Magdalena Slapik has been asking them.

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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts. In addition, The Hechinger Report obtained data from seven community college districts, representing 19 of the 116 community colleges in the California system.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school. Much as she loves technology, Wilkins-Walker said, “I have never wanted to be an online teacher.”. Online learning was challenging for many students.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

Edsurge

From the start, access has been the defining achievement of online learning. For a couple of decades, I championed online learning for its ability to uproot entrenched ideas in education, especially by engaging students in active learning, a pedagogical style rarely practiced on campus. Or so I thought.

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