The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

After Green Mountain College in rural Vermont shut down in 2019, its 155-acre campus was put up for sale for $20 million; the campus eventually sold at auction for $4.5 The most recent scores are from 2019-20. and running a deficit in 2018 and 2019, the most recent years for which tax documents are available.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Founded in 2008, Knewton blazed its way into the edtech industry with bold proclamations about its adaptive-learning technology, which it then licensed to digital curriculum providers. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division. In its latest fiscal year earnings summary (for Nov. 1, 2018 to Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

From 2008 through 2022 the state removed elected boards in seven districts, all but one of which had higher proportions of nonwhite students than the state average. Its 2019 score of 59, an F, rose to 78 in 2021-22, a high C, during a period when academic outcomes around the country were getting hammered because of the pandemic.

Outcomes 89

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract. That’s cool.’”

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Libraries Study Exercises Course 157

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Without a degree, she had to work low-wage jobs to pay off the settlement of $2,900, which she was finally able to do in 2019. Under a little-known state regulation , New York’s attorney general is allowed to sue students if a state public university claims they owe tuition — or overdue library fines or unpaid parking tickets.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Smithsonian offer parts of their collections to be organized and made accessible by employing the services citizen volunteers. The Library of Congress was an early adopter of archival crowdsourcing. The first set of publicly-transcribed materials will be released in early 2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2019, were not disclosed. One of them will be a complementary addition to Weld North’s portfolio: Odysseyware , a library of online courses covering career and technical education along with K-12 subjects, often used for intervention and credit recovery.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

OpenStax Director of Research Philip Grimaldi and other authors asked the same questions in their 2019 article Do open educational resources improve student learning? The original OLI-Statistics course comes to mind here, as reported by Lovett ( 2008 ). ” Difficult to discern indeed! Instructional design matters.

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 162

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

After all, employers may be likely to pay for access to online course libraries and job-focused microcredentials rather than longer degree programs. The typical reimbursement amount is down as well. Microcredentials that stack into degrees, fitting together like lego blocks into larger wholes, could be key.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Jones says he's particularly proud that the college has increased graduation rates among black students, going from from 5 to 22 percent from 2008 to 2016. Moving Forward These days, students at Texarkana College can be seen coming in and out of the library. But who will be leading those future initiatives remains to be seen.

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Education Company Study Libraries 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2020

He is the author of Free Play (Penguin, 1990) and The Art of Is (New World Library, 2019). In 2008, after her column "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog “ Free-Range Kids.”

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Company Microsoft Software Libraries 41

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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Report Course Study Policies 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Santana has been teaching the course at Philadelphia’s Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice since 2019. In 2019, then Gov. Santana goes deep.”

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Study Course Report Classroom 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The privilege of attending is costly, at $57,642 for the 2019-20 academic year. But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report.

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Data Report Strategy Study 92

Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

I don't work in a school or a library. I don't maintain the learning management system or the library management software. By 2019, about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online" — Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn (2008). I'm not a practitioner in the field. I don't teach. Maybe it will.

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Khan Academy Course Conference Technology 126

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Simplifying a Complex System Most states that evaluate child care and pre-K centers calculate a star rating based on a complex constellation of metrics—everything from teacher-student ratios to whether the books in the library are stacked at eye level.

Tools 89

Tools Udemy System Training 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But after a year, Woods realized that his college experience just wasn’t the same as that of his classmates who made friends in the dorms, hung out in the dining halls and stayed late into the night at the libraries. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. THIBODAUX, La. He decided to take out even more money to join them.

Report 75

Report Trends Data Analysis 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

On her first job as an apprentice, in 2008, men called her “the pookie princess” after the sealant she used to close ducts that snaked along the ceilings of the tract homes where she worked south of Seattle. It was early 2008, and there was a building boom; the union was taking just about everyone, including women. “I

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Industry Training Conference Company 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Only about 55 percent of students who started at a four-year school in 2008 had bachelor’s degree six years later. At the time, public budgets were reeling in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, and states were cutting funding for public universities. January 16, 2019. Trying to keep students in school. Tuition was rising.

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Data Dropout Company Report 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. We can say, ‘Is it the paddling, is it the spanking?’

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In his district, their journey to digital equity began in 2008 when they realized if they kept education as is, they would be preparing children for a world that no longer exists. Vrain Valley School District (CO). Dr. Haddad has served on several community Boards of Directors throughout his tenure. Join the Community.

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System Digital Divide E-rate Education 54

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Her husband, Sanford Johnson, co-founded Mississippi First in 2008, advocating for better education, including pre-K, for a sexual health curriculum that went beyond abstinence — and charter schools. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. That is, rather than students buying textbooks separately (or buying used textbooks or checking them out from the library or sharing them with a roommate not buying textbooks at all), the cost would be bundled with tuition and fees.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Enrollment in traditional teacher-preparation programs dropped 35 percent in the decade between 2008-09 and 2018-19, and fell further during the pandemic. Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

Survey 21

Survey Elementary Advocacy Report 21

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. In 2008, after her column "Why I Let My 9 Year Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog “Free-Range Kids.”

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. .”

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Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53