The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the years after the law went into effect, the testing and data industries flourished, selling school districts interim assessments to track student progress throughout the year along with flashy data dashboards that translated student achievement into colored circles and red warning flags. Why doesn’t data analysis work?

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Grades 3-5 Scripps News: Fast Fashion’s Impact on the Environment Scripps News provides videos on the most important topics and issues with straightforward, opinion-free news and documentaries. In this video, students learn about the fashion industry’s impact on the environment.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s easy to grow jaded about the news that technological innovations are going to wipe out entire industries. Any time a new innovative technology appears, people seem dead set on making predictions regarding the ways in which it is going to completely uproot our society. But, who knows? The post ChatGPT in Schools: Friend or Foe?

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has written a lot on the topic. Yet he points out that “only 10 percent of high school students take a statistics class—and even most statistics courses are primarily theoretical rather than requiring students to get their hands dirty with data.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2024

Yet, amidst the buzz of AI and cutting-edge defenses, she reminds us of the foundational importance of sound data management and collaborative efforts across departments. Tasks that does not exist in other verticals and they need data and they need information and they need cooperation. Need a big voice? That is great.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2021

There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation. You MUST install these to protect against malware and secure your personal data. Many — probably most — updates have to do with security.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The report describes how five different learner-centered education models–The Met, Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, Iowa BIG, Village High School, and Embark Education–were able to launch and grow their models by assembling value networks congruent with their vision for learner-centered education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2019

There are endless backups, shares, cleanings, changed settings, and vacation messages that — if not done right — can mean big problems when you return from summer vacation. You MUST install these to protect against malware and secure your personal data. Many — probably most — updates have to do with security.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Those are my excuses for combining the last two weeks of news clips into one ‘best of’ roundup. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

At #CoSN2024 next week, a cohort of news CTOs will convene as part of the year-long CTO Academy. So you get that, you know, big picture thinking and then you get to dive deeper and make some new connections and create your own professional learning network. What does it take to run the tech for a school district in 2024?

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2024

While everyone’s favorite acronym—AI—seems to be the hottest topic as #CoSN2024 kicks off here in Miami, Ashley May, M.S., This includes aligning strategies for content filtering, resource vetting, and data protection. This encompasses aspects like data privacy, password security, and vigilance against phishing schemes.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to cybersecurity company KnowBe4 , hackers have begun to impersonate senior education officials as a new phishing tactic against teachers and staff to gain access to sensitive data. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Read about how school districts can prevent a data breach! I am also a big fan of multifactor authentication.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The first was another in Natasha Singer’s New York Times must-read series, ‘Education Disrupted,’ entitled Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

That white noise you heard around student data privacy in 2018 is about to be replaced with thunder. Relative to the flurry of legislative activity seen in prior years, it was a somewhat measured year for student data privacy. California passed a sweeping new privacy law , and calls for federal privacy regulation ramped up.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These methods include an interrelated set of skills, such as pattern recognition, abstraction and decomposition, applied to solve complex problems using, for example, automation, data analysis or computational modeling. These skills and practices can be used to learn topics in many disciplines. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

So it's a nice combo of all of those topics. And those were the biggest topics that I found. But I don't know if my perception of it, it seems like maybe that's kind of a, on the business move side of it, because it is such a big investment in creating these products, and you don't know what the response is going to be.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In today’s classrooms, keeping children focused on the content they are studying is a big challenge. Many apps and online tools help teachers assess their students’ understanding of a concept, get valuable data on how they are learning and learning outcomes, and modify their classroom instruction strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

As the United States faces both growing science-related challenges (climate change and a pandemic, for example) and an increase in science denial, programs like the one at AMNH are training teachers to help students navigate complicated scientific topics in their classrooms. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Other data analyses have also shown benefits to bypassing remedial education, but this was one of the only real-life experiments, like a clinical trial, and so it carried a lot of weight. The good news is that the switch from remedial algebra to college stats didn’t seem to harm anyone.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

I recently sat down with Kelly Mendoza, Senior Director of Education Programs at Common Sense Education, who oversees digital citizenship curricular materials to discuss exciting curriculu m news. Sexting: Common Sense Media is now aging the topic down with a new lesson and video addressing the issue for middle school.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

(If you’re new to this blog, I’ve been tracking the virus since it appeared in January, as part of my broader project of studying the future of higher education. You can find all of my posts about the topic here.). No word on canceling games and practices; any news on this score, readers?

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Neo LMS

JULY 25, 2019

Quiz students about a topic. According to the previously mentioned data, Google Home seems to be the second most popular smart speaker in the US. A big bonus is the actions feature and the fact that people can create actions themselves. Use automation to reduce routine tasks, including scheduling school events in the calendar.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research. Gifted education is getting renewed attention because it is one of the big ways that U.S. This study found that students in gifted classrooms are learning the same topics and curriculum as students in general education classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. It’s not news but people have willfully ignored it.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Two news stories this week have turned my attention (again) to the issue of conflict of interest in education, technology, and public policy. The first was another in Natasha Singer’s New York Times must-read series, ‘Education Disrupted,’ entitled Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Now technology has become intertwined with education in countless ways: Few schools lack a student information system and many administrators are becoming savvier about data protection and digital privacy. Our recent reader survey gave us a fresh look into the topics and the questions that concern you the most.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. Thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my weekly stories about education data and research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

So the big push in 2024 will be finding ways to support building capacity and awareness around the potential benefits and effective use of these tools, and finding equitable funding models to ensure free access for all, so it doesn’t become yet another tool that further entrenches the advantages of those who already have the most.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. CU Boulder has one of the nation’s widest gaps between undergraduate Latinos enrolling in college for the first time and the state’s share of Latino high school graduates, an analysis of federal data by The Hechinger Report and NBC News shows. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

During the past few years data security has moved out of the shadows and basements of IT departments and into the global conversation. Today’s news cycle is littered with reports of high-profile hacks on credit reporting bureaus, ransomware attacks against schools and individuals and sensitive data stolen from brands like Target and LinkedIn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

The annual event brings together thousands of teachers all trying to find the latest news, gadgets and education tips (or in this year’s case, to hear a few words from podcast superstar Jad Abumrad ). These are just a few of the topics Achieve3000 discovered students want to read about—and now they can. classrooms. Police Brutality.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Khan’s theory is that a big part of the reason kids fall behind in math is because they’ve missed a key skill at some point. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. Sal Khan, founder of the nonprofit Khan Academy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

We’re talking 160,000 people signing up to study advanced tech topics like data science. The New York Times later declared 2012 as the ‘year of the MOOC,’ and columnists said the virtual courses would bring a revolution. EdSurge: MOOCs were once headline news around the world and now you hardly hear about them.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 30, 2020

Watch and Reflect Videos: 15-Minute Activities Our videos are a great way to spark critical thinking and discussion around a variety of digital citizenship topics. These videos ask big, thought-provoking questions, such as "Does being online actually make us act meaner than we would in person?

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

News articles often highlight the challenges educators face and the ways in which students are not achieving. Educators across the country are addressing challenges and building solutions that work for their communities with big results. As is, talking about solutions that work. Why move to learner-centered models?

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 10, 2019

The story of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) helps illuminate the efforts, successes and failures in what is a vibrant community of dedicated women who play a vital role at companies big and small across the country every day. Isn’t that the reason everyone was so surprised by the movie Hidden Figures?

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