Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Now here’s something we’re realizing about our current education research: Too few educators feel that the research that the US government supports has a tangible impact on their work in the classroom. Last March, I was appointed as Director of the Institute of Education Sciences. Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 16, 2019

A recent article in the Omaha World Herald highlights efforts in Nebraska to curb the rise of this disturbing content. In Millard Public Schools, located in Omaha, NE, educators establish from the onset that transparency is key. Last year, Gaggle helped save 542 students from suicide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

But many of the industries needed to complete this work are already struggling to find skilled labor — despite relatively high salaries and comparatively good benefits — in a nation that has put more emphasis on bachelor’s degrees than vocational education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronic absenteeism emerged as a top indicator that affects students’ educational experiences. Scott SchmidtBonne is the Executive Director of the Research Division in Omaha Public Schools. Previously Emily was a consultant at The Bridgespan Group where she advised K12 and early childhood education clients. Join the Community.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 22, 2017

The Common Sense Education team will be at ISTE this year. It's the perfect bundle for two educators planning to boost a culture of good digital citizenship in their schools next year. Join any presentation of ours, our Common Sense Educators, or our partners, all listed below. What's in this mysterious package?

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Adjusting Course

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Earlier this year, my wife and I were invited to travel to a Ben Rector concert in Omaha, Nebraska to help celebrate a friend’s 40th birthday. If this blog post resonated, you might like my newest book, Reclaiming Our Calling: Hold on to the Heart, Mind, and Hope of Education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

The latest quarterly earnings for publicly traded education technology companies was especially rough for 2U , which revised its loss guidance for the year and stated that it expected enrollment challenges to its core business of running online graduate programs with universities. That sent the stock for the Lanham, Md.-based

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Evans was brought in as Superintendent of Omaha Public Schools (OPS) to institute change processes that resulted from a needs assessment. In the second year, the cohort added another 100 educators. Nearly four years ago, Mr. Mark A. The cohort was further enhanced by leadership from Wendy Loewenstein.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Vicki: OK, remarkable educators, remember that if you’re on that morning commute like many of you are when you listen to the show, so this when you get to school, Don’t do this while driving. Tony Vincent used to teach fifth grade in Omaha, Nebraska. You can actually turn off In App Ratings and Reviews. But it is REALLY very exciting!

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Comfortably 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2012

Maggie Mintken, Assistant Principal at Grand Island Senior High, and I had a great discussion this summer as a result of her first Edcamp experience in Omaha last spring that was organized by Josh Allen. We recognized the need for a "workshop by educators, for educators" in Central Nebraska. We put our heads'

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

It’s terribly confusing, but perhaps no coincidence, that three of the world’s most prominent consumer technology companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft—each boast a “Classroom” tool aimed at K-12 educators and students. So what’s what—and what should educators and administrators know when choosing between the big three?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Department of Education. Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Monica Nguyenduy, a senior at Ralston High School in Omaha, Nebraska, “really went into the college process blind,” she said.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

"Content delivery can be done online, but you need to focus on their skills while [students] are in class because it's difficult to focus on individual skills during a synchronous lesson with, say, 15 or more kids during an online session," says Wendy Loewenstein, director of the Virtual School in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. I think the latter."

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

In the absence of the weekly news round-ups, I took the time away to do some further writing and analysis: Everything’s Bigger in Texas…Including (Maybe) the Data Breaches , which details the ham-handed way in which the Texas Association of School Boards has communicated about their breach of personal information about Texas educators.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For educators, the survey data help us better understand what’s going on at home and can guide our thinking about the role teachers play in shaping students’ media use. For educators, the rise of mobile media in homes presents us with an important role to play for kids and families.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

This week's podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. What we want to do is close and what we want to do is solve the root of the problem.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

This post originally appeared in September of 2014 on my Discovery Educator Network blog, Kathy''s Katch , where I pen a monthly blog post. If the education system were to provide some financial literacy classes for kids, it could make a tremendous difference in the economic success of society”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But with customers getting harder to find, more colleges and universities are going to where the students are: in fast-growing cities that don’t already have a big supply of higher education institutions, such as Phoenix, Austin and Las Vegas. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Underneath that veneer of status, though, her extended family battled every cliché you’ve heard about rural life: low education levels, poverty and “an addiction to something.” Brown was accepted at 19 of the 23 schools to which she applied – including most of the marquee names in higher education. Her parents struggled with debt.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This mentorship allowed Katie to attend Omaha Fashion Week and a business entrepreneurial conference at Metro Community College as well as make connections in the fashion industry. Jen Schneider is a middle school Language Arts teacher in Omaha, Nebraska and a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

But what’s clearly not working is getting educators to pay attention to this research to inform their own work in the classroom. In the spirit of putting the educators at the center of education research, the nonprofit Jefferson Education Exchange (JEX) and the Institute of Education Science (IES)—the independent research arm of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The city’s educational experiment, ripping up nearly an entire district to replace it with the new model, meant charters here, including KIPP Renaissance, were under intense pressure to show academic results — fast. School leaders, many who were educators in New Orleans before Katrina, never alienated alumni.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

The Trifecta of Rural PD, Part 1: Social Chat Platforms Problem One: How do you gather a group of like-minded educators in one place in order to share ideas, when so many miles separate you? Take #CatholicEdChat (geared towards educators in Catholic schools), which I moderate every Saturday. Let’s get into the specifics.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Omaha Steaks - For the carnivore man (or woman!) 20 off $50 on Omaha Steaks [link] — The Daring Librarian (@GwynethJones) November 23, 2014 Need $$ to Fund these Finds? Every educator who leaves a non-spam comment gets an automatic Twitter follow from me- I love your comments! who has it all! Like my Dad? One word - meat!

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

Anti-racist education in early childhood classrooms is far more than a multicultural lesson or two. It requires educators to deeply understand how institutional racism comes to be and manifests in environments where young students learn. By Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I have many things to say about this (the enormous importance of WWI, the ignored majority of that conflict, the role of civilians, etc), but will confine myself to one single point right now: Educators, remember that a growing number of your students are veterans. Some academics pay careful attention to this. Bravo to them!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Education Politics. “ Ugandan parliament orders Bridge Academy schools closed,” according to Education International. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 22nd The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn.and change. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2020

In June, Missouri cut K-12 education funding by more than $100 million amid the pandemic-induced recession. Education leaders have said schools may need more than $200 billion in new federal education funding to stop these gaps and meet the new need. And parents and educators are finding it hard to make decisions in the murk.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

Education is a complicated, fragile process, affected by many factors outside of school from nutrition to health to family. The study took advantage of test score data from the Stanford Education Data Archive , which maps every state’s own assessment onto a single national yardstick. See Figure 1 from the study, reproduced below.) “We

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice.

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