The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. Now, with far more applicants in the pipeline, “I only see pre-hiring assessment gaining momentum,” Price said.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

20% of all new hires leave the classroom within three years. Through our innovative Learning Engagement System (LES), districts can build a custom library and even create and sell their custom training. On the up-side, I became a relative expert in art projects. I was the clinical director at a residential facility for teens.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The challenge of attracting students into and graduating them from education departments at colleges predates the pandemic, experts say, and yet the pressures of the past two years have worsened the situation at some institutions. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

A few years ago, when colleagues and I recognized the need for launching a remote undergraduate degree in a highly in-demand field, we moved ahead for months with plans without routinely consulting faculty members along the way. It’s unwise to launch new remote programs in fields new to the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

These are among the ways “employers are creating the solutions they need in order to deal with their talent demands,” said Bridgette Gray, chief customer officer at Opportunity@Work, a nonprofit that encourages employers to hire more people without degrees. College, Gray noted, may not be right for everyone. Just don’t try to quit.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Then, nearly overnight, our world—and the job market with it—suddenly and wrenchingly changed. As we enter a recession, many experts believe that the unemployment rate will spike well into the double digits—to 15 percent according to Goldman Sachs , or as high as 32 percent according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2019

When the Gresham-Barlow (OR) School District (GBSD) hired Dr. A. Katrise Perera as the superintendent in July of 2017, she set out to listen and learn from students, parents, staff, and community members how to best serve our students. Related: 3 ways technology & innovation are transforming classrooms. Develop pathways.

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edWeb.net

JULY 29, 2022

These elements include: Inclusive Design: Sessions held with 30 workers in frontline sectors who were paid consulting rates. Iteration: Collaborative sessions with LER technical experts and pilot platforms to develop and iterate on inclusive design principles and user profiles. Eliminating Inequities in the Hiring Process.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 2, 2023

To ensure effectiveness and program quality, they implemented an ESSER plan, staff and student surveys of STEM time, allocated time to go to professional development workshops, and consulted with other districts on best practices for grant implementation. Blog post by Laura Smulian , based on this edLeader Panel.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

It’s not just a matter of, ‘Let’s hire someone in infrastructure.’ ”. Much of the infrastructure economy is also facing a “silver tsunami” of retirements in the next decade; experts worry there won’t be nearly enough younger workers to fill those jobs. Brookings estimates about 10 percent of the infrastructure workforce — about 1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

But as many academic leaders look around for help going online, they often can’t find experts at their own institutions with the experience and skills to build a virtual campus, or to run the sophisticated marketing efforts it takes to attract students around the country and around the world. But be careful.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

To be clear, both Coursera and edX are growing—in fact both have seen accelerating use during the pandemic, with some experts saying this marks another MOOC moment. It [can] create this cycle that naturally leads to the winner-takes-all,” says Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant. It’s important to our partners.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our first conversation is with Rachel Romer Carlson, co-founder and chief executive of Guild Education , headquartered in Denver. In May, Guild announced it had bought the consulting firm, Entangled, to accelerate its growth. Carlson has raised $228.5 million in funding and the company is valued at more than $1 billion.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“If you don’t have a teacher that has a strong background in word work, or how to crack the code of reading, they’re not going to know how to target specific needs and then support the child in their classroom,” said Rachel Logan, a literacy specialist who consulted schools nationally on equitable practices.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

No one ever hires me to say "everything's going to be okay,” of course. I am utterly exhausted by all the pontification and speculation about what is going to happen in the coming weeks and months and years to our world. It'll be a boon for those futurist consultants. von Neumann was a consultant at RAND.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The Ability Gap The biggest problem with the Technology Integration Specialist (TIS) is that as soon as a school hires one, it sends a message to other faculty that they no longer have to strive to be proficient in this area since it’s someone else’s job. Every teacher has a colleague he consults for tech help.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

Credit: Nigel Barker for The Hechinger Report Pracademics can also help their purely academic colleagues keep up with changes happening outside the classroom, said Jo Painter, a nurse consultant in adult mental health who also works as a senior lecturer in nursing at Sheffield Hallam. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A Canada-based company the district hired started scouring public posts for threats and “cries for help” last month. The Chicago program – called “Supporting Our Students” – is part of a national trend, as more districts have started paying contractors for social media monitoring services in recent years.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2020

Daphne Williams is a former teacher who became a consultant working for a large educational company and currently works full time as an Instructional Designer. I eventually left for a job as an educational consultant for a large technology company, and luckily all of my coworkers were really kind about my decision.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The pace of mergers and acquisitions has given rise to the self-described first full-service university and college merger consulting firm, Higher Ed Consolidation Solutions. The university nature of our institution lets us do things our competitors can’t do.”. Will there be more? Willamette now may add a joint B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the decade since the last recession, Missouri Western had kept hiring, increasing the number of full-time faculty by 5 percent as its undergraduate enrollment was plummeting by nearly 25 percent. Try our Financial Fitness Tracker. This story also appeared in NBC News. But that was only part of the problem. Colleges in Crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Later, math is what most often keeps students from graduating from college, experts say.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

So when the alumnus, who worked for Microsoft, told him that the Redmond, Washington-based technology behemoth would be hiring huge numbers of people to specialize in data analytics, he went back to the campus to fast-track a new degree program in that subject. Faculty, he said, “are the ones who are the educational experts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Shortening the school day for students with disabilities as punishment for their behavior is illegal, experts say. Related: Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities? When it comes to a modified day, specifically for behavior, what we really look at is the safety of our students,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

Experts also cite intensifying public skepticism about the value of a degree and the cost of getting one, which has soured many people on the idea of higher education — and community college students on the prospect of going further. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. percent in the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s one of a small but growing number of places where experts are testing new ideas that will shape the future of a college education, using everything from blockchain networks to computer simulations to artificial intelligence, or AI. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Unlike transcripts, I.L.R.s

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

That gives a school district like ours a source of revenue for the next 20 years that we can rely on for technology.”. Finance experts agree that school bonds offer substantial savings over most other types of borrowing, given that bonds are backed by a reliable source of funds: property taxes. Borrowing that $16.2

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

“Even if I chose not to finish, I would still have these pieces and I’d say, ‘Look what I’ve done,’ as opposed to, ‘I have two years of college’ ” but nothing to show for it, said Nelson, who works as an information technology consultant and hopes to move into an administrative role. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2020

Experts say that’s why federal funding is critical. Related: Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter. It is unclear how many will be hired back. If either she or her husband needs treatment for Covid-19, she said, “we may permanently close down and lose our home.”. It’s intense.”. Credit: Pyrena Hui.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 16, 2018

our founder and CEO. These philosophies have inspired his work, and ours at EdTechTeam, for years. Following the guidelines outlined by the state, we had developed a vision for the kind of learning we wanted to see in our schools. Get your copy today.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 20, 2015

Our school houses the Center for STEM Education for Girls , and recently opened the Design Den, a place for students to imagine, design, and create. This year, our high school geometry students studied angles and the Pythagorean theorem, then designed children’s soccer goals out of bird netting and PVC pipes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Also in concurrence with Simon’s vision of more dynamic, data-guided teaching, colleges have begun hiring instructional designers. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Ted Fujimoto is President of Landmark Consulting Group, Inc. ,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Concerns about ownership of data: “I don’t want to risk the vendor going out of business or changing its hosting agreement that holds our data to ransom.”. Skepticism that the cloud is more secure: “Even if the applications are hosted, cybercriminals can still access our data if they hack our network.”.

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MindShift

APRIL 26, 2017

They consult with school leaders around the world for their company Educating Modern Learners. Through his work as a consultant he has worked with several districts he thinks are moving in the right direction. We wanted to share important things about our staff in terms of what their vision is for learning,” Fessler said. “We

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

This news may be a surprise to many higher-education experts and business leaders who might expect a computer science-related area to be the fastest-growing STEM field. Our graduates are getting excellent jobs in industry with a statistics degree. Research & Experimental Psychology 66.1 4,723.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

After having trouble finding skilled employees for his corporate headquarters, Butt brought together San Antonio school superintendents, business leaders and workforce experts to explore school models that could give students the academic foundation and skills required for jobs in fast-growing, well-paying local industries. Weekly Update.

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