eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. He worked smaller classrooms into the schedule with the help of computers. A new proposal out of Georgia is betting it is, and supporters hope schools will implement it soon.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. Both Obimma and VonSeggen tutored remotely, but some tutors have come back into the classroom along with the students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, first enacted in 1987 and expanded in 2001, requires that districts take specific actions to help unstably housed students complete school. Districts must waive enrollment requirements, such as immunization forms, that could keep kids out of the classroom. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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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. Their absence in classrooms is deeply felt, especially in states like South Carolina where almost a fifth of students are Black.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. “I He also talks, engages and learns in a classroom alongside his peers. And this gives us a chance to rethink that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. You can help by supporting award-winning, in-depth reporting on inequality and innovation in classrooms and campuses all over the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Lillian Renfro, 5, “roasts” a “marshmallow” during free-play time in her preschool classroom in Clinton, Oklahoma. Instead, she posits that “buying” poor children classroom access to their higher income peers and the political capital of their peers’ parents is the likely reason for the success of universal preschool. They weren’t.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. The George W.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Pat will share his 30-plus years of fieldwork, advocacy (he published Growing Without Schooling magazine from 1986 to 2001), and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help you and your children learn in their own ways. Librarian Team , Classroom 2.0 Details to join the webinar at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Casagranda said in one classroom at Seward High School there’s a “huge leak in the ceiling panel.” A ceiling panel damaged by water inside a classroom at Seward High School, pictured in May 2021, is the result of a warranty issue that the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District maintenance team said it is working to resolve.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A study by George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy found that between 2001 and 2007, 36 percent of districts decreased elementary classroom time spent on social studies, including civics – a drop that most affected underfunded schools serving working-class, poor, rural, and inner-city kids.

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