Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

Groups 80

Groups Advocacy Company Mobility 80

Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

This translates to limited upward mobility for them and their children; children of parents with low literacy skills have a 72 percent chance of being at the lowest reading levels themselves, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which diminishes the worker pipeline for the future. In fact, according to U.S.

Mobility 150

Mobility Advocacy Data Accessibility 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. Michele Streeter is the associate director of Policy and Advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success.

System 143

System Advocacy Accessibility Policies 143

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2022

Following the murder of George Floyd two years ago, we saw a national mobilization that challenged the beliefs and institutions that sanctioned the behavior of his murderer and accomplices. The Washington Post’s Fatal Force tracker reports that more than 1,050 people have been killed by police in the past 365 days.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Mobility Training Resources 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The program operates in what she calls a “mobile-first environment,” meaning 90 percent of the program is taught on a phone, even though classes are in-person. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Learning 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

As a technology reporter and mommy blogger, you’d think the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat for newborns — an infant seat with a holder for an iPad — would be something I appreciate. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination.

Mobility 79

Mobility Tablets iPad Gamification 79

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He found that 56 percent report children being more aggressive, hyper-active or oppositional than they used to be, and 55 percent report children more shy, withdrawn or anxious. Yale professor Dr. Walter Gilliam recently surveyed 50,000 preschool teachers across the country.

Education 189

Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 189

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Yet it gave itself a D on its report card earlier this year. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I percent, but was also 2.0

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Policies Report Secondary 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Photo: Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report. The policy had been in place for years, an LHSAA spokeswoman said, before The Hechinger Report wrote about it this fall. Opposition to Louisiana’s policy has picked up steam since The Hechinger Report first wrote about it. Previously, the association’s Rule 1.5.1

Policies 108

Policies Advocacy Report Mobility 108

Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

More than a million cases of child identity theft are reported every year and, as school districts continue to introduce students to new technology and advanced digital curriculum, Internet safety education is becoming an increasingly essential tool when preventing cybercrime. Conclusion.

Data 150

Data Internet Safety LMS Student Data Privacy 150

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. We’re doing this because mobility is the American dream.”. Why are we doing this work?”

Advocacy 96

Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. The Hechinger Report has also been partnering with the film , which was shown at SXSW EDU last year. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for The Hechinger newsletter.

Social Media 82

Social Media Advocacy Conference Report 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 113

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

As a technology reporter and mommy blogger, you’d think the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat for newborns — an infant seat with a holder for an iPad — would be something I appreciate. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination.

Mobility 40

Mobility Tablets iPad Advocacy 40

techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

It also provides classroom management and anonymous reporting features, as well as tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. Impero also offers Impero EdLink , a mobile device management tool to help schools manage one-to-one initiatives and BYOD programs.

Software 40

Software Digital Citizenship Handbook BYOD 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

Through a school library’s checkout program, these low-cost mobile devices provide students and households in need with secure, reliable, and safe access to the internet. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Edcamps 54

Edcamps Accessibility Advocacy Mobility 54

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

SAN DIEGO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Internet Safety Labs , a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product safety testing, today announced a big leap forward to help ensure mobile app safety for K-12 students, families and educators with the introduction of the App Microscope. Try Out the App Microscope, It’s Free!

Internet Safety 96

Internet Safety Mobility Software EdTech 96

N2Y

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many parents look forward to the first progress reports that arrive as fall ushers in the hustle and bustle of a new school year. Comments on IEP progress reports usually include language such as Mastered, Making Progress, Some Progress, Not Addressed, or Needs Improvement to describe advancement toward accomplishing IEP goals.

Meeting 52

Meeting Advocacy Report Examples 52

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 30, 2016

According to the Common Sense report, Technology Addiction: Concern, Controversy, and Finding Balance , half of teens and over one-quarter of parents feel they're addicted to their mobile devices. Interested in learning more about our advocacy efforts around digital citizenship and media literacy?

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Advocacy Social Media Mobility 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

Learning 69

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Some critics are raising concern about the qualifications of teachers in so-called dual-enrollment programs where students earn college credit while in high school; the national faculty union is planning a report that questions the quality of some of these programs. Photo: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report.

Course 87

Course Policies Report Study 87

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots.

EdTech 97

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 97

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Go behind the story: Listen to an interview with reporter Emily Tate about her visit to a school working to teach some of the youngest victims of the opioid crisis. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. Alexa Bihner, Ryder’s mother, first noticed these symptoms in her son in late 2018.

Training 174

Training Classroom Report Groups 174

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. The last couple years have brought a renaissance in virtual guidance counseling—both new services and existing ones upping their game with mobile, social media and data analytics.

E-rate 40

E-rate Training Advocacy Mobility 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Gates is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.). Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed. Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. You wanna buy a college education?

Survey 40

Survey Policies Report Data 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2016

Shahid Buttar , Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) on the crucial importance of libraries in the fight to protect privacy rights and intellectual freedom. The Project has issued more than 600 reports based on its surveys that examine people’s online activities and the internet’s role in their lives.

Conference 28

Conference Libraries Survey Advocacy 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off. That’s a common restriction nationwide. We’ll have a P.O.

Policies 68

Policies System Groups Advocacy 68

The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I got this compelling email from good friend and LJ/SLJ/The Horn Book publisher Ian Singer who forwarded a passionate plea to several of us to mobilize, sign the petition to Ensure all school libraries are properly staffed, open, and available for children every day and to get out the word via Twitter. We’ll report it.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Libraries Mobility Social Media 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

Analysis 70

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 70

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. Some districts have defended spending less on higher-poverty schools.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The promotion allows teachers and schools to test out the Bloomz Premium subscription, which offers exclusive tools to communicate and coordinate with their parent community, such as unlimited storage for teachers and administrators, engagement reports, premium calendar, and more. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

Tools 59

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 59

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

“For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Survey 140

Survey Laptops Accessibility Report 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Several public libraries in the state are providing curbside delivery of books to support the initiative, with many schools and districts offering a free book pick-up service with the help of local literacy advocacy groups. Credit: Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Reporting contributed by Neal Morton. School buses.

Accessibility 144

Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

Learning 85

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 85

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., In June, the group mobilized. Together, those supplies cost about $20,000.

Learning 217

Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 217

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Black, Hispanic and Native American first-year students showed even steeper drops in a November report, between 28 and 29 percent. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. The decline in first-time enrollment at community colleges was a staggering 21 percent. It’s just too much.”.

Trends 145

Trends Report Data Course 145