Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Nationwide, teachers are nervous about getting back into the classroom, citing health and safety concerns as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into a new school year. Depending on their district, some of those teachers may get their wish. That’s the thinking, anyway, behind a new lawsuit filed Sept.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

School meals have long been a bedrock for low-income and food insecure communities, but new research shows that food insecurity has climbed significantly since the beginning of the pandemic, leading many families to rely more heavily on free meals, snacks and groceries provided by their local public schools. percent higher than it is now.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Newark, NJ – Offshore wind company Bluepoint Wind is announcing today the winners of grants to further STEM education for 10 teachers from schools across New Jersey. Each educator chosen by the Company will receive $1,000 worth of interactive STEM kits from KidWind , an international leader in renewable energy education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

As digital leaders, it is important to cultivate systemic conditions in education that support and nurture a growth mindset for these students, while allowing them to utilize their technical expertise. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Tue, 02/06/2018 - 09:13. by Steven LoCascio.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Yet the Brentwood Union Free School District suspended Martinez for more than six months. Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Relying solely on aggregated state standardized test scores and demographic characteristics of students attending a given school, the periodical ranked elementary schools and middle schools within states and school districts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced that it has been selected by Pittsburgh Public School District , the largest of 43 districts in Allegheny County and the second-largest district in Pennsylvania, to provide 24/7 online tutoring for all students in grades K–12.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 9, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Due to an increase in teacher shortages around the country, the need to hire highly qualified teachers, especially teachers of color, is challenging school district leaders to rethink and revamp their recruitment and retainment efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In most places, information about how often this happens is hidden from the public, but in districts where data has been made available, it’s clear that Black students are more frequently subjected to these removals than their peers. “I The ER trips, they say, often follow months, and sometimes years, of the students’ needs not being met.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2019

Getting into large school districts, like those in Los Angeles or Chicago, is the stuff of dreams for many education technology entrepreneurs. The New York City Department of Education, the largest in the nation, covers 1,800 schools serving nearly a million students.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What does navigating the New York City subway have to do with teaching computer science? Even better, this kind of “unplugged” approach to teaching computational thinking may be the path that will help us address a looming educational chasm: how to ensure equitable access to computer education across the globe.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Now a senior at New York University, Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors navigate applying to college, a process she personally recalls being dominated by concern about finances and a general sense of anxiety because no one in her family did it in the United States before her. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Academic achievement in Massachusetts, historically the highest achieving state in the nation, fell so much during the pandemic that the state’s eighth graders now score below those in New Jersey in reading, and in math, an 11-point drop nearly ties Massachusetts with Utah. Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2022 NAEP.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.” 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2020

Several years ago, officials in the San Francisco Unified School District realized their attempt to engage parents in their child’s literacy development was falling flat. During the 2013-14 school year, the district decided to try something simple: text message tips for parents. Rebecca Honig, Head of Content for Ready4K.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2020

To support school systems, including New York City Public Schools, in obtaining Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other essential materials, SDI, Inc. , a leader in digital supply chain services and solutions, is launching PPE as-a-Service for K-12 education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

Their respective fields may vary widely, but what unites this particular group—on the 10-year anniversary since the fellowship was first launched—is their commitment to transforming early childhood education. And moving forward, it will maintain that focus for every other year of the fellowship. Meet four of them below. Brenda, Ms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced that it satisfies Level II requirements (Moderate Evidence) of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for its on-demand tutoring services. Highlights include: – Students who used Tutor.com had higher GPAs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2015, East Upper and Lower Schools—formerly East High School—in Rochester, New York entered into a unique partnership between the New York State Education Department, Rochester City School District and the University of Rochester. The University of Rochester became that education partner.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

a leader in digital supply chain services and solutions, and the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) are expanding upon a 20 year partnership to extend cleaning, maintenance and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) materials to non-public schools. SDI, Inc. ,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Education experts were raising questions and expressing concerns about teaching shortages long before COVID-19 came into the picture, but the pandemic exacerbated the issue. Many schools and districts, including mine, scrambled to find quick fixes to keep the doors open during the height of the pandemic and in its wake.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the number of local students who were chronically absent, a term that refers to those who miss 15 or more school days of the academic year. On March 16, the district closed schools to help contain the outbreak of COVID-19.

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techlearning

APRIL 16, 2020

The New York City Department of Education launched a remote learning program in the nation’s largest school district in a week

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The family switched schools, and at their new school, she felt the educators pushed children, particularly those who are Black, into sports, when she would have liked to see them encouraged in math and science. Franetta Sinsabaugh’s frustrations with her children’s schooling had been building for a long time. It was a rough transition.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Communicating with non-verbal children is not a new task for Tererro, who has a young daughter with Autism. The demands of raising her daughter made it challenging for Terrero, who has a high school education, to find stable work that fit her child care schedule. The tell-tale signs of a temper tantrum began.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. The data on this is clear.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

About 14 percent of all public school students receive special education services, and for many of them the switch to remote learning has been difficult on families and the schools that teach them every day. To that last question, Sean Arnold, a STEM coach and special educator for the New York City Department of Education, has a suggestion.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The living room may not have been what New York City’s mayor had in mind a year ago when he ran for re-election on the ambitious promise of free preschool for all of the city’s 3-year-olds. New York City recently introduced a plan that would bring 3-K into home-based childcare. That door is now open.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 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. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Neither is the federal Department of Education. So educators are tackling that homework themselves. A new effort aims to take these homegrown research projects a step further. The sweep of the coronavirus across the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Just 22 percent of students in the district are Black, Latino or multiracial, but in some lower-level math classes a disproportionate share of the kids were from those racial groups. This is the look of the Ithaca City School District’s new effort to limit tracking — or separating students by perceived ability — in middle school math.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The community college’s math department didn’t consider it a math course. Although statistics was an accepted general education math course at institutions around the state, and the class used a valid inquiry-based pedagogical strategy, the math faculty nevertheless felt that the course needed to cover more algebra. The only problem?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

A separate survey found that 26 percent of teachers are “afraid for their physical safety” while at school and report “dread” when the new school year starts in August. In response, districts nationwide are investing in human and technological resources to improve security for students, teachers, and parents.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I was angry that the mayor and district leaders were gambling with the health of students and my fellow teachers and leaders. That moment sits heavy on my mind because this is not an infrequent occurrence in education. In moments of crisis, decisions are made without consideration of the impact on educators' mental and physical health.

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