The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”. Empowering Clinicians.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This flaw in higher education is not obscure; it is codified into federal law. However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty. Families cannot afford to wait. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Her parents wanted to get her a special education designation — and all the supports that came with it. The short answer, according to special education lawyers and advocates across the country, is no. Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. But that doesn’t stop it from happening frequently.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Digital equity is one of the most complex and urgent issues facing 21st-century educators. Digital equity is one of the most complex and urgent issues facing 21st-century educators. It’s an economic concern, as schools consider how they can ensure equal access for all. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. Palmer High School.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. Likewise, higher education institutions have tried various strategies to boost student enrollment but haven’t stepped back to ask, “Who is not completing applications?” Department of Education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This spring, while educators were pivoting to new teaching frameworks from home, I witnessed students shifting into new roles too. In fact, the remote learning made necessary by the pandemic provides a unique opportunity to deeply examine the foundations of our educational system and make some much needed improvements.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. Students who lack citizenship documentation—sometimes called “ Dreamers ”—may be excluded from last-dollar programs, Marshall says. It’s understandable.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In addition, the district is providing cybersecurity education to employees and students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast A recent edLeader Panel, “ Utah Spotlight: A ‘State’ of Alignment ,” featured experts that included Rick Gaisford, Education Specialist, Education Technology and the SETDA Chair Elect, Utah State Board of Education; Melanie Durfee, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Called SwiftStudent , the website walks students through the documents and forms they need in order to submit a financial aid appeal to their institution’s aid office. Department of Education. The foundation was established last summer by Seldin and her husband to support projects related to immigration reform and higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed. The goal is to offer hope.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Bloomberg is echoing other Democratic contenders in his new higher education plan, which calls for making two-year public college tuition-free for all and debt-free for the lowest-income students. Bloomberg championed an education agenda that President Donald J. Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I That’s because the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. She purchased notebooks for the kids so they could document the growth of the sunflowers, soil, seeds and water.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. The Education Department says that last year about 17.5 Erika Turner and her husband have 11 children between them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. Slowly, she has tried to replace the missing documents.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low quality, limit access States had until 2018 to come into compliance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Who has access to it? But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. Nearly twice as many teachers (86 percent) now say technology is “very important” in education, up from 44 percent before the pandemic. How is that data being used?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Not all of the initiatives to solve these problems have succeeded. Those spending more?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2022

Teachers can no longer download any app they want and use it the same day—every piece of instructional technology must be vetted for how it relates to educational goals and checked against software the school already has. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). This is wonderful news in light of recent attempts to stuff a free public access requirement into OER definitions. (I emphasis added).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So the dean asked Perreault and Gretchen Kopmanis, technology services office manager and Mac team lead, to devise a pilot program that would help low-income students get access to laptops—and maybe even improve their enrollment and retention rates, too. There’s a high population of high-income students here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Using data well “ensures that students aren’t just counted but that each student counts,” says Data Quality Campaign (DQC), a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization that works for changes in policy and practice around data flow. But DQC has a healthy resource bank that provides ways to support and join its advocacy efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

As the leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of the disability and higher-education communities, we are committed to working together to continue the progress made in recent years to welcome and support college students with a wide range of disabilities. This is no accident.

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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. Sign up for the higher education newsletter. Black students.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

And the reason that it is so important to us, is because there is a lot of documentation that is not out there anywhere else. It’s a statistic that now we can put out there because we have documented evidence. It was never documented. Now we have documented evidence that that’s not exactly true.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When she’d shown up at the financial aid office of a Houston Community College campus at age 19, she was told she couldn’t receive tuition money without documentation from her parents—the same parents from whom she’d been estranged for three years. The scales that measure higher education costs are usually set in thousand-dollar increments.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. Kim shared that she and her colleagues often describe advocacy in the context of the neverending burden of Sysyphus.

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