EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. Source: Mursion and Future Workforce: “ VR Changes the Game for Soft Skills Training ” Of course, money talks. And educators want to know what actually worked in remote instruction.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 In October 2020, a little more than two- thirds of K-12 principals estimated that their students with disabilities would perform somewhat or much lower than they had before the pandemic. At Ulster, we have designed our services around the belief that the student must be at the center of their educational experience.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And it’s not just a problem today — there’s worry that the pipeline of new teachers being trained might be shrinking as well. And the group found that in the fall of 2020-21, 20 percent of undergraduate teacher-education programs had seen enrollment drops of 11 percent or more because of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. In the summer of 2020, I worked with youth organizers in Detroit to conduct listening sessions with youth across the city and state; we wanted to support local organizations in developing their own education justice campaigns.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

For Wiese, it was all a big, expensive gamble — and, in one form or another, is one millions of people with criminal records take every year as they pursue education and workforce training on their way to jobs that require a license. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

This is landmark legislation,” Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy at Girls Who Code, tells EdSurge. They will begin tracking and recording the information in the 2019-2020 school year, with their first submission due in June 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That changed in the summer of 2020. And this past school year, dozens of elementary school administrators started training in LETRS, or Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, which teaches them the “science of reading,” including how students learn to decode letters on the page and form meaning from words.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

On the rare occasions when other teachers who spoke Barrera’s language, Spanish, were asked to help, the conversations still faltered because they weren’t trained interpreters. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012. In 2020, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

As an organization on a mission to build a strong, socially conscious and diverse tech workforce, the past year showed us where we can strengthen our existing practices and sharpen our focus and advocacy efforts to be even further out on the leading edge of innovative learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. Schools Have to Work on Themselves When I started therapy in 2020, I quickly learned that simply attending therapy sessions wasn’t enough to improve my mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. . It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. I see it as a huge equity issue.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Their effort, called the Early Childhood Policy in Institutions of Higher Education Initiative , also aims to establish early childhood policy as a field of inquiry, including at universities, which serve as training grounds for policymakers and hubs of research. approving taxes to support universal preschool programs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These circumstances are squeezing the university programs that train future teachers. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Here’s how colleges are adapting to find and train the teachers of tomorrow. Student loans are scary. We don’t value education.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Since 2020, HHS has been monitoring data from the field, including data that showed a strained workforce. “It The outcomes were the result of many years of effort, advocacy and coalition building, Lloyd notes. In both cases, nothing changed overnight. Direct input from early childhood educators is also part of the approach.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

students learns differently , meaning they have a neurological difference that may make it difficult to process information, according to the National Center for Learning Disabilities , a research and advocacy organization committed to improving outcomes for people with learning or attention issues. One in five U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Schonert-Reichl was a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education at University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1991 to 2020. Schonert-Reichl received her MA in Educational Psychology from the University of Chicago, her Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million. School faculty and staff participate in mock phishing drills and are sent to cybersecurity training.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Her work is supported through the same program that Olasunkanmi participates in, the New York City Department of Education’s College and Career Bridge for All , which trains graduates of the city’s high schools who are currently in college to support high school seniors with their post-graduation plans.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

With their help, the Head Start teachers now have trained professionals to turn to for guidance—and the children get specialized support to address their unique histories and behavioral needs. That is changing. Prescott is bringing on a second mental health worker to share Brown’s caseload.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

And they have a significant impact on student learning: Studies have linked teacher absences and uncertified, less trained subs to declines in student achievement. Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad. Since December, the U.S. Since December, the U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Forefront offers in-person trainings, ranging from teaching companies about implicit bias to helping them recruit better. However, it hopes to build an online content library of trainings for employers. It wants to create a movement of “equity designers” through youth programs, leadership development and educational advocacy tools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

trillion domestic spending bill released last week includes nearly $30 billion in workforce training and other investments that tradeswomen and workforce experts say could help recruit, train and retain women and people of color, who’ve been marginalized by sexism and racism within the construction industry.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. That hasn’t always been easy for college campus center staff, some 70 percent of whom are white.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Despite a pandemic that has labeled child care workers “essential” and raised public awareness of the importance of early care and education, the industry remains “woefully” underfunded and overlooked, says Caitlin McLean, senior research specialist and co-author of the Early Childhood Workforce Index 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The isolation of spring 2020 sent Lindsay Richmond’s 13-year-old son AJ into severe depression. In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. Threat assessment teams are usually trained in this approach. That center offers voluntary threat assessment training to schools.

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