The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan. Barbara Kantrowitz.

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Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 111

Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2017

For the last year, working groups focused on maker-centered learning and research in the League of Innovative Schools have joined forces to focus on the research behind the national wave of enthusiasm in maker learning. Dr. Clapp and meeting participants dove into questions like, What is making? What is its value in education?

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Learning Meeting Outcomes Assessment 167

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

In response to the President’s call for commitments to computer science education for all , 37 school district across the country — from Vermont to Alaska — ­have committed to offering high­ quality computer science (CS) and computational thinking curriculum to over one million students. Coordinating with the private sector.

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Digital Citizenship Elementary Microsoft STEM 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. But it really kicks in during middle school.

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Broadband Technology Assessment iPad 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Before the pandemic, Patricia Woodward’s son Zion struggled in school. That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. The Fairfield County School District might seem like an unlikely place to have embraced virtual instruction.

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Survey Course Online Learning Accessibility 127

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. The district has struggled since then to pay off its construction debt. In the predawn hours, around a curve, the community’s high school, a modern brick and glass edifice, beams out of the darkness.

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Report Elementary System Data 86

edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

When many schools and districts address equity problems, they tend to look at the big picture and overall outcomes. By combining the small group focus with short cycles of improvement, schools can truly create a system where every child is receiving the best possible education. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Learning Conference Outcomes Elementary 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This profile is the third in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. Bringing about change in schools is complex. Mastery Design Collaborative supported some of these schools through their redesign process.

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Personalized Learning Learning Education Elements Elementary 60

MindShift

MAY 13, 2021

This week has brought a few dizzying updates to the year-long school-reopening story. What does all of this mean for schools? The vaccination expansion is certainly good news for families and for school leaders who want to see their middle schools fully reopen. In some states, masks in schools are already optional.

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Guidelines Classroom Policies Conference 38

MindShift

AUGUST 3, 2021

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has a message for schools across the country ahead of the new school year: Students need to be in classrooms. “Schools are more than just places where students learn how to read and write — they’re communities. In South Carolina, Gov.

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Classroom Education Strategy Data 46

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

We had recently got a new building and we were adding on to our school district. So they did some research and found out that buying one of those is a little bit out of our school budgets…. How to update Google Streetview Images. Donnie: So they said, “Mr. Piercey, is there anything we can do to kind of update this image?”

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Google eBook Classroom iPhone 196

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 6, 2020

As states navigate the COVID-19 landscape, Governor Henry McMaster of South Carolina has provided an example of how governors can invest federal dollars to create new educational opportunities for students. Low-income students were among the most negatively affected.

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Education Examples Accessibility Learning 28

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

INTERACTIVE TOUCH PANELS GIVE ALL STUDENTS A VOICE Cypress-Fairbanks ISD is the third largest district in Texas, covering 186 square miles and serving 115,000 students. To provide the district with the technology it needed, the community voted in favor of a $1.2 After LearnSmart, they earned an average of 84 percent.

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Personalized Learning Study Software Chromebook 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Edgenuity highlights schools, districts implementing blended learning. As schools and districts try to better meet the needs of students with different learning styles, blended learning programs are becoming increasingly popular. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools has a commitment to ensuring success for every student.

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Blended Learning CMS Learning Outcomes 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Many school districts said they did not attempt to negotiate prices with Apple.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But it also speaks to the school itself, which less than a decade ago, was on the brink of a total bankruptcy and collapse. “It It was about as big a mess as you can ever imagine,” says James Henry Russell, who left his previous role as superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District to become president of the college in 2011.

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Software System Technology Data 73

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

How innovative districts are exposing more students to coding and closing the participation gap. Endorsement by the White House is valuable to those new to introducing computer science (CS) in the classroom, as well as others, like members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , who have championed CS for years.

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STEM Elementary Robotics Mobility 40

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 4, 2016

A new project that seeks to “fundamentally rethink” the role that assessments play in student learning has issued 12 grants to schools, districts, and other awardees focused on fashioning makeovers of testing systems. The new grantees include: the Henry County, Ga.,

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Assessment Common Core Facebook Chromebook 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Los Angeles School police officer Henry Anderson on his beat at Robert E. Peary Middle School in Gardena. Department of Education over the treatment of black students in local schools. The district’s black students are disproportionately targeted by police officers who work in the schools, the complaint alleges.

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Training Report Analysis Resources 40

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For many schools, incorporating technology is a journey that’s been years in the making—and there are still plenty of uncharted changes to come. For that reason, the third annual DLD aimed to be much more than one tech-filled school day. In 2008, the high school graduation rate at Winterboro High School was 63 percent.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

[link] Conference Wrap-up Amy Garmer Director, Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries, Communications and Society Program @amygarmer As Director of the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries, Amy is leading a multi-year initiative to explore, develop and champion new ways of thinking about U.S. public libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

At the same time, the number of digital tools used across schools and districts seemingly multiplied. Over in Massachusetts, Becky Csizmesia, who was teaching music to elementary students at Silvia Elementary when schools closed, had a similar problem with communication apps. K-12 school districts.

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Schoology Training Digital Learning Elementary 200

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The School of Information at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor, and this event is being held in collaboration with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. public libraries. She is the author of the Dialogue’s 2014 vision report, Rising to the Challenge: Re-Envisioning Public Libraries.

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Adult after adult was testifying before her school board about its plans for reopening. Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. “How This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Resources Instructional Materials OER Elementary 89

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Also, this week, thanks to my invited participation in the National Governors Association regional summit, Meet the Threat: States Confront the Cyber Challenge , I published a new post “ How Should We Address the Cybersecurity Threats Facing K-12 Schools? But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

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Study Course Report Classroom 98

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While not every piece speaks directly to K-12 education issues at present, they all speak to the wider milieu from which our conceptions of public education and consumer technology are derived. Yet again this week, I’ve needed to update my post on the W-2 phishing scam victimizing school districts across the country.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While not every piece speaks directly to K-12 education issues at present, they all speak to the wider milieu from which our conceptions of public education and consumer technology are derived. Yet again this week, I’ve needed to update my post on the W-2 phishing scam victimizing school districts across the country.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Students in a Granite School District preschool classroom learn about the letter T. But preschool in this struggling Utah district is far from ordinary. So, in 2013, the local United Way, which had been assisting this district with its preschool programming, made a deal with Goldman Sachs and the J.B. &

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Report Elementary Advocacy Company 61

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

Students attend classes at Brooklyn Lab School Submitted photo. SAN FRANCISCO — Erin Mote is a technologist and hands-on middle school principal with a strong belief in the power of personalized learning. Yet when she talks about the future, she is clear about how hard looking ahead can be. “We Does it work? Does it work?

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Personalized Learning Blended Learning Learning Common Core 81

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Tri-Share debuted as a possible solution, a public-private partnership to help modest-income families shoulder the high cost of child care and, in turn, allow Michiganders like VanBlaricum — most of whom are women — to re-enter and remain in the workforce. And then one day that spring, he sketched out an idea. Photo courtesy of Breitner.

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Company Industry Accessibility Meeting 178

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via The New York Times : “For Trump and DeVos , a Florida Private School Is a Model for Choice.” ” More on Trump’s visit to a school via The LA Times. Also via The LA Times , more on Trump’s call for a school voucher program. “ Betsy DeVos Says HBCUs are Pioneers of School Choice.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice – or a vote – in their children’s education, according to a News21 state-by-state analysis of school takeovers. More than 5.6 average is 15.5

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Elementary System Company Data 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

So instead, some 275 Lafayette families sent their 4- and 5-year-olds to schools across the district for the free, month-long summer program, which aims to cram the basics of preschool into 20 half-day sessions. Some small studies suggest they may boost students’ later performance in school. By the final class on Aug.

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E-rate Elementary Study Report 63

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The August school board meeting in this South Carolina community started with a plea for grace. It’s the most important tool we have right now,” a parent told the Lexington-Richland 5 school board. A school board member resigned on the spot the same night, making way for a special election to fill his seat. “We CHAPIN, S.C. —

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