The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. Their number one concern, across all racial and demographic groups, was access and inclusion in special education. Families are our partners,” she said. “We There’s also an issue of context.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

But Caposey, the superintendent of Meridian CUSD 223 in Illinois, added that the pandemic also forced them to realize “massive equity and access issues.” As a district in a small, rural community, they suffered from the kind of broadband access issues that were spotlighted by the pandemic. Quite frankly, I’m embarrassed,” Caposey said.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Yet today’s students have more access to information and resources beyond the classroom than any prior generation. One of the first videos she found was titled “10 Science Projects for Elementary School Students,” which demonstrates a simple experiment and explains what is happening. She sought out YouTube videos.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Entrepreneurs and investors packed Holon’s conference, eager to hear more about the global research and analytics platform’s latest survey results and reports on latest trends and ed tech for teaching and learning. Sweden is instead embracing printed textbooks, teacher expertise, handwriting practice and quiet time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Studies of the Perry preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and the Abecedarian preschool in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented higher levels of educational attainment and higher earnings for children who attended. The second lesson is to wait patiently for long-term benefits to emerge even when elementary school test scores disappoint.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Homeless families are not required to provide documentation, he said. Slowly, she has tried to replace the missing documents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Because of COVID-19, we did not want to have a lot of paper materials, and I created a checklist for my students to audit and make sure that all of the students can access the textbook because that can be a real issue as you go to e-books. . Make sure that they understand when they are supposed to report and what their hours are.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. This 2020 review of the research confirms that. Book reading is so important for kids,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Sadie Dittenber from Idaho Education News contributed to this report. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. took at least one online course.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It’s difficult to get good internet access in Garrett County, Maryland. Due to Wi-Fi issues and a learning curve with the district’s online platform, in spring 2020, Garrett County families and educators struggled to access remote classes. The county lies in the Appalachian Mountains, full of peaks and ridges, trees and rivers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

To get her son even modified access to the regular kindergarten curriculum, Barlow would need to show that his potential to learn exceeded his test scores. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P., It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. If you want to see the original Watergate Affair documents, you can find them on NewseumED. They are patient and unbiased.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Vega-Tatum has held jobs before, but College Corps is different. More than 15 percent have lived in California for years, but lack the immigration documentation necessary to qualify for most financial aid. The creators of the program hope other states will replicate it.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For most of my career, I’ve worked toward creating access for children who have historically been excluded from high-caliber educational experiences in education and technology. I believe that if we can open up access to these experiences, it will serve as a vital step toward resolving the inherent educational inequities in our society.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2024

His 1990 book “Dumping in Dixie” documented the systemic placement of polluting facilities and waste disposal in communities of color, as well as those communities fighting back. ACTS just won a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to expand the program. Bullard has been called the father of the environmental justice movement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers. The 18 percent disadvantage for Black candidates was calculated after controlling for education, years of experience, type of school (elementary, middle or high school) and location (city, suburb or rural area).

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA, noted the importance of having safe WiFi access. She suggested beginning with a clear mission statement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. Before Savannah took the SAT, she faced the extra step of documenting her disability to secure extra time. This is no accident.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question. This story about nudging was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report. Teachers are doing their best in an unprecedented and constantly changing situation, but the varying amount of training districts are providing has created a patchwork of quality and gaps in accessibility. Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. Lawrence County, Tennessee, where its three high schools recently joined a college access effort that is closing the rural-nonrural education gap. serving more than 3,000 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

This document spells out what services and accommodations students with disabilities must get from their school districts. Experts say that’s common, and parents often don’t realize what rights their children have when it comes to accessing a full day of school. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

One drawback of the study is that it relies on self-reported grades that students disclose on an optional survey when they register for the ACT. The College Board, which administers the SAT, has also documented grade inflation by comparing SAT scores with high school grades. “Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S. Technology Literacy Challenge Fund.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Before they can read, preschoolers and early elementary school students sit with teachers and watch and listen as stories are narrated to them. Read” mode builds up children’s English vocabulary so they can access traditional books, too. Subscribe today! Story time is a classic part of the school day for the nation’s youngest learners.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Not only does advanced reading still offer the best, most sophisticated access to information, it also offers a crucial way to develop our minds. It’s time we became a nation of readers so that more than 13 percent of us can access the numerous benefits that thousands of years of culture have entrusted to written words.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

The Canopy Project has documented hundreds of examples of what is possible when stakeholders work together to reimagine the future of education. This story about personalized learning was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. Another 8,000 had a documented exemption, such as no internet access or an inability to leave home to pick up academic paper packets. Again, he picked the wrong answer. Schools get creative.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families. Out-of-School Access Chart.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, more commonly known as E-rate, is a federal program through which schools and libraries can apply for funds to purchase hardware, internet access, and telecommunications to connect their students to learning opportunities.

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