The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JUNE 25, 2020
More about this week's guests: Patrick Farenga brings more than 34 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife unschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways. Please join us at www.reinventing.school for the live shows as well as access to the recordings (also on YouTube ).
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
By 2015, Pennsylvania had cut funding to its public universities by $3,758 per full-time student, giving its students only about two-thirds the national average of what states contribute to higher ed. So have state employee pension obligations.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Standards — the knowledge and skills students must acquire to master a subject — became universal under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which mandated annual tests and penalized schools with low pass rates. ©2015 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.). Visit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.) at www.ajc.com.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
For this story, reporters analyzed every available open-enrollment charter application approved between 2005 and 2015 — the decade after Katrina. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. Black men are often the providers for their families, so low pay can be devastating.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
In all, the GI Bill — which costs $11 billion a year, according to the General Accounting Office — paid for all or part of 450,000 degrees earned by 340,000 students between 2009 and 2015, the study found. 11, 2001 graduated at a rate of between 66 percent and 68 percent. Some of those veterans earned more than one degree.
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