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. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2023

The appointment reflects King’s belief that colleges and universities can’t afford to engage with climate solely on an intellectual level, or as a narrowly focused topic in the sciences; they must also walk the walk, by rapidly decarbonizing their own infrastructure. “It Every aspect of academia gets to play a role.”

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Nonetheless the wide adoption of mobile technologies allows for what development experts call “leapfrogging”, whereby a developing economy can literally cut out certain costly development steps, such as rolling out massive telecommunication hard-line infrastructure. Community Health Volunteer Training. Descomplica.

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Tom Murray

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For over two centuries, student information and data was kept in paper form, often in filing cabinets in a school or district office. The move to the digital storage of information has enabled many solutions expected by schools today – online portals for parents, real-time communication with families, etc.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The rise of technology was rapid, but teachers can gradually incorporate technology into lesson plans by using online news articles as a topic of discussion or showing videos to better illustrate a concept just learned in class. There are a wide variety of resources available including Youtube for Schools and Google for Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The campus of Paradise High School, which was damaged in the Camp Fire but survived. 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.

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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). So why do I still want schools to use them?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

For elective courses, he said, they will be able to choose from topics like conflict resolution, death and the meaning of life, the role of the military in the modern world, military psychology, human memory, social ethics, human behavior in crisis, political psychology and an array of other courses on specific wars.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It was back then that he delivered a TED talk on the topic of whether schools kill students’ creativity —and today, that video has been viewed over 43 million times, currently holding the title of “most popular TED talk of all time.”. Why Problems Arise When Kids Go To School. Thus, we have to rethink how we do school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earlier this year I visited an empty school in an affluent part of New Jersey. The struggles of that one school community are being repeated right now on a massive scale in developing countries like Pakistan, where schools serving more than 2 million children have been destroyed this year by catastrophic flooding.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

based uAspire advises students on college finances, and also offers training for school counselors and advocates for policy changes to make the financial aid process more simple and transparent. The news hasn’t been buzzing among students like it has in recent news headlines, Piñero said. Jaclyn Piñero, uAspire Boston, Mass.-based

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

As leaders of colleges like Morehouse, we have to think of technology not as an adjunct to our infrastructure but core to it, and I think that will permeate forever,” Thomas told a packed audience at a session on the future of higher educationannual ASU + GSV summit earlier this month. Credit: Liz Willen for The Hechinger Report.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Just like in the typical business space, Data Science can help schools and other education institutions in understanding and analyzing the quality of education, as well as students and teachers’ performance. For infrastructural changes. It comes with the promise of deciding the course of education. detentions. attendance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2016

This web-based scalable program is available for elementary through high school students and can last anywhere from four weeks to a year. For students, there are CSTEM camps and competitions to showcase the robot wizardry of programmers from elementary through high school. why bother. Oh, by the way: It’s free. is cost-efficient.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Jared Scherz, the founder of TeacherCoach , and a former elementary school guidance counselor who became a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. In this interview, we discuss Dr. Scherz’s background, his history as a school counselor, and his plans to help change the education ecosystem by assisting educators in a holistic manner.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza is a member of the student-led Oakland Youth Vote campaign, which advocates for giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote for school board representatives. Who is the school board really representing?” Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. said Mendoza.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today Since the school year began, Vega-Tatum has given more than 356 hours of his time to Yolo Farm to Fork , a nonprofit that supports school gardens and farm-based education. Vega-Tatum grew up in Stockton, a community mostly known for its high crime rate, and played three sports in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

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. When given assignments where I could choose the topic, I chose the climate crisis. Ashley Thorshov.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

I predict a greater focus on cybersecurity so schools can protect our students and themselves from these unexpected (and unwelcome) twists and turns. In 2024, developing more meaningful school-home relationships and partnering with families to support better student outcomes will be imperative.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 110

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2017

It's not the first place you expect to find a pioneer education program, but the Young Women’s Leadership Academy is one of the city’s first public schools to have a full computer science (CS) course. Frederica is one of the first students to take the new Software Engineering Program (SEP class) at her school.

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Education Training Course Robotics 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

Each spring, about three hundred or so pre-K through 12th grade students wrap up the school year, running out into the parks and fields across the community to play. Most of them won’t, however, attend neighborhood learning programs; Ashmore does not have summer school for its students, even the lowest performing ones. The 2014 U.S.

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E-rate Education Outcomes Accessibility 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

Each spring, about three hundred or so pre-K through 12th grade students wrap up the school year, running out into the parks and fields across the community to play. Most of them won’t, however, attend neighborhood learning programs; Ashmore does not have summer school for its students, even the lowest performing ones. The 2014 U.S.

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E-rate Education Outcomes Accessibility 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

Each spring, about three hundred or so pre-K through 12th grade students wrap up the school year, running out into the parks and fields across the community to play. Most of them won’t, however, attend neighborhood learning programs; Ashmore does not have summer school for its students, even the lowest performing ones. The 2014 U.S.

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E-rate Education Outcomes Secondary 60

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Larry Fruth, Executive Director and CEO of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, and Jena Draper, Founder and General Manager at CatchOn, discussed head on the challenges school districts face with data access and student privacy. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect. The Balancing Act.

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Data Accessibility Student Data Privacy Libraries 41

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

MIAMI — There are no walls between the seven classrooms on the third floor of the Medical Academy for Science and Technology, a former hospital that houses a magnet high school for would-be doctors, nurses, physical therapists and pharmacists. The space, upgraded in the 2015-2016 school year, is continuously changing.

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Classroom Elementary Report Laptops 112

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. In fact, in 2019, UNESCO estimated that 258 million children — about one in six of the school-age population — were not in school.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“If it’s edtech, it must be good,” used to be the mantra in schools. In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Focusing on the first module of The Empowered Superintendent Toolkit, 3.0,

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This story about youth activism was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Mendoza is a member of the student-led Oakland Youth Vote campaign, which advocates for giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote for school board representatives.

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Kaplan Learning Policies Report 41

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

I predict a greater focus on cybersecurity so schools can protect our students and themselves from these unexpected (and unwelcome) twists and turns. In 2024, developing more meaningful school-home relationships and partnering with families to support better student outcomes will be imperative.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Educator Innovator

APRIL 4, 2016

The staff, in partnership with the ACLU , trains librarians to install privacy infrastructure on-site, and to teach patrons about their rights and the tools they can use in their personal lives to protect themselves. They hold workshops for patrons too. Real and perceived threats to privacy can inhibit learning.

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Libraries Social Media Data Examples 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

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. The great majority of these events are free to attend. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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Conference Technology Maker Movement Libraries 55

edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

While the Wild West era of edtech may be over, there’s still some mystery over how schools decide what digital materials to buy. The participants: Large district: Dr. Daryl Diamond, Director of Innovative Learning, Broward County Public Schools, FL. Diamond and Furman: This is the most essential element for both school leaders.

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EdTech LMS Robotics Training 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

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Libraries Report Conference Learning 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Remember Edmodo?

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