Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Modest majorities of teachers and parents, though, rate their school highly for communicating about how it’s operating in the pandemic. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) : Teachers perceived their students’ top problem as missing social interactions at school or with friends (88 percent), followed by keeping up academically (82 percent).

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. Now, we are pleased to present the first HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran School No.

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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 Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Gay is the purchasing manager at Baltimore County Public Schools , a member of the League of Innovative Schools. In Baltimore County Public Schools, where I’m the purchasing manager, we’re underway on a strategic plan to prepare students for their chosen college or career path.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Fewer than two out of every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the Ivy League and peer institutions identify as having served in the U.S. Fewer than two out of every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the Ivy League and peer institutions identify as having served in the U.S. That extra effort is essential and deserved.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black. The university’s admissions team resolved to reverse the trend, with urgent outreach to high school seniors who had started applications but not finished them. “We

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools members partner with other leading educators, entrepreneurs, and researchers from across the U.S. The League of Innovative Schools, launched in late 2011, accepts new members through an open application process once per year. million students.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 15, 2018

Fortunately, there has been a relative convergence of key concepts and essential components of Personalized Learning (PL) that can help frame a more nuanced discussion moving forward as schools explore and implement different iterations of PL.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

He’s also among the school’s very few veterans. But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Over 5,100 applications were submitted for STEM Scale-Up Grants. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. STEM should be a catalyst for active learning. to move to the U.S.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

. — By his own account, Oscar Tendilla was a horrible middle school student, unmotivated and indifferent. I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. The new book was written by Stanley Litow, a former vice president of IBM and architect of the school model, and journalist Tina Kelley. “If

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As the school year starts here at Dr. Pablo Perez Elementary school in McAllen — where I am the school librarian — we are enrolling 40 to 60 newcomers in Harvey’s aftermath. At the youngest levels, students interact with Dot, which lights up and makes noises, and students learn how to initiate those responses.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Nelson likes to point out that since it had 16,000 applicants for that class (now up to 20,000 for next year's), that makes it more selective than his alma mater or any other Ivy League institution. The approach actually began not as a sketch on a bar napkin but as a student research project. Thanks for that."

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Upgrading infrastructure, device maintenance, and ongoing professional development, in addition to program and device costs, mean tech initiatives need permanent budget lines that take into account the total cost. A lot of schools get upfront money from a source, like a grant, but how are they going to sustain the program?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In practice, though, for most highly selective private schools — more specifically, the overwhelming majority of schools that are not need-blind, as Harvard is — this ruling will have little impact on who is offered admission. I applaud the Federal judge’s decision that race may be used as a factor in holistic admission.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Schools have valuable information to protect for both students and employees. Steve Bradshaw, Superintendent, Columbia Falls School District 6; Juan Cabrera, Superintendent, El Paso ISD; and Dr. Gary Lilly, Superintendent, Bristol Tennessee City Schools joined McMullan for, “CyberSecurity: A Critical School District Priority.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

But the college also attempts a scattering of smaller innovations and unusual practices—so many that it’s easy to imagine a slate of TED talks on the different approaches here. And the college raised its initial funding with a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo , netting $206,000, which helped buy the building and prove interest in the idea.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” Via NPR : “New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MAY 23, 2015

Booking Info – Time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? You may want to click on the link below to the first of this series. You may want to click on the link below to the first of this series. Let’s take a look!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most of these rural student clubs have emerged at Ivy League universities or other highly selective private institutions, and often have just a handful of members. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range? The Sutter Buttes, about an hour south of Chico. The biggest lake in Plumas County?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

This is one of the few things outside school that young people have to do in this neighborhood, which the government ranks among the country’s poorest. Dominic Stevens, a University of East London student who is part of a program that uses sports to encourage boys to go to college. Photo: Nilay Kumar. In the U.K., In the U.K., In the U.S.,

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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. Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

Schools are drowning in data. As they adopt more and more technology to support students’ learning, more and more data is generated—and most schools struggle to use this data effectively to improve teaching and learning. – Focus group of school leaders. . – Focus group of school leaders. .”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

However, if free universal preschool is going to work in New York and provide a sustainable working model for programs around the country, private schools need to remain involved and, indeed, flourish. Yet not a single teacher in this private preschool in Bensonhurst has a master’s degree and nearly half do not return each year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. All three planned to graduate at the end of the 2020-21 school year. By mid-April, the world had changed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class. Staggering costs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The last straw was when Moody asked for a $2 raise above the $18.50 an hour she was making and the boss said no. So she joined the legions of Americans quitting their jobs. That’s when Moody realized something else she shares with many of those other workers who want to switch careers: She’d need more education to get a new one. They’re embarrassed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Editor’s note: The Hechinger Report followed six students through the college application process last year at Match Charter High in Boston. Related: Ivy-League Degree: Now what? “I This story follows the journey of Daniel Inoa, who just finished his freshman year at Dartmouth College. You can read the entire series here. HANOVER, N.H.

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