Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. So, what can be done?

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Elementary think alouds. Wilkinson, L.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will 2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Courtesy of Denise Pope.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2011

Date : Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 Time : 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 19:00 GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. Hosted by Ed Gragert, Executive Director of iEARN-USA, this event is jointly sponsored by iEARN-USA , the Global Education Collaborative , and the Global Education Conference.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal. When the program started in 2011, Donna and another employee worked as educational liaisons on a consultant basis and split around 140 cases between them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. A 2011 study of two EL middle schools and one EL elementary school in New York State found that they fared better at reducing race and income achievement gaps, particularly in English, when compared to similar schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

2010, 2011; Trautwein & Lüdtke, 2007, (Xu, 2010a). For elementary students, homework should not be tied to any academic grades or achievement expectation. The Elementary School Journal, 60, 212–224. Along similar lines, studies have also confirmed the correlation between autonomy and positive performance. Tymms, P., &

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The number of indigenous Canadians grew four times faster than the rest of the population between 2006 and 2011, the most recent period for which the figure is available, and that pace is expected to continue, according to the government agency Statistics Canada. As in the United States, they’re also practical.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

In 2015, during the Obama administration, the federal education department issued a report that showed how the funding gap between rich and poor schools grew 44 percent over a decade between 2001-2 and 2011-12. It’s since gotten worse.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. The George W.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

A lack of appropriate oversight can be found in Betsy DeVos’s backyard, Michigan, where legislators repealed a cap on charter schools in 2011. Department of Education released an audit of both education management organizations (EMOs) and charter management organizations (CMOs), covering the period of July 2011 through March 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2021

Djibril Coulibaly emigrated from the West African country of Mali in 2001, recruited to help preserve the French Language in Louisiana by the Council for the Development of French. Lafargue Elementary School, before immigration officials ripped him from his community and his family. so we could benefit from his expertise.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

So instead of a zeppelin, we got to ride in one of Google’s self-driving cars, which was of course the project that Thrun had been working on when he gave his famous TED Talk in 2011 – and that, in turn, was where he heard Salman Khan give his famous TED Talk. Anyone with car insurance. ” The driverless university.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2001, Williams graduated from Gardendale High and moved to Huntsville to attend Alabama A&M. He was a driving force behind the state’s infamous 2011 immigration crackdown, which required police to inquire about the legal status of anyone they had a “reasonable suspicion” was in the country unlawfully.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

As Kristina Rizga wrote in Mother Jones this year , In 2011, all federal funding for civics and social studies was eliminated. And Americans don’t just struggle with facts about science. They struggle with facts about social studies. This too has been a long time in the making.

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