Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. About 90 percent of students in SCSD qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and only about half go on to post-secondary education, usually community college.

Libraries 53

Libraries STEM Secondary Study 53

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Three of five states that have most reduced their funding per public college and university student from 2008 to 2016 are southern, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , a Washington D.C.-based State funding in Georgia has also fallen, and tuition in the University of Georgia system has doubled since 2008.

Education 40

Education Industry Report Policies 40

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I've never stopped thinking that I can help higher education faculty with these struggles by sharing what I've experienced and learned since 2008, when I discovered GTD and my life and career were transformed by it. Grading for Growth and Intentional Academia are secondary hubs -- long-form writing that has a special place.

Social Media 52

Social Media Twitter Case Study System 52

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Research shows that spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009). Sometimes these are called “STEAM” to reflect the inclusion of the arts.

Pearson 28

Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy. But that wasn’t a thing then.

Elementary 67

Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Higher Ed Inflation Hits Highest Level Since 2008.”

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Proponents of programs like the one in Oklahoma say they help the oil and gas industry replenish its aging workforce by stirring early interest in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. In 1960, educators helped revamp API materials that eventually made their way into 25,000 secondary schools.

Industry 54

Industry Education Company Groups 54

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Aaron Swartz, 2008. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145