The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

By the end of the 2013-14 academic year, Whitmore Lake had lost about 25 percent of its enrollment, dropping from 1,300 to 960 students. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Jobs were cut at nearby auto plants. The district offered employees buyouts and didn’t fill vacancies. million annually.

Report 89

Report Elementary System Data 89

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. A recent and exciting challenge transpired as co-facilitator of the virtual participants in the 2013 Flat Classroom Conference in Yokohama, Japan.

Conference 59

Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

Next Tuesday, March 29th, 2002, is our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," which will be held online (and for free). We currently have over 2,500 registrations! Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future.

Conference 45

Conference Libraries Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

There is no policy area in our governance “more complex than elementary and secondary education,” education professors and researchers Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn wrote in their in their 2013 book. Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted in 2002, the federal government has played an outsized role in standardization.

Elementary 79

Elementary System Secondary Report 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish college within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002. More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish a bachelor’s degree within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002, the Education Department says. To some extent, those efforts appear to be working.

Education 78

Education Report Secondary Survey 78

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. (I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The act called for “universal service” so that all Americans could have access to affordable telecommunications services, regardless of their geographical location. In 2014, the FCC undertook a “modernization” plan for E-rate in part to address the changing demand for telecommunications services.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Families in Williams’s virtually all-black neighborhood were set to lose access to the schools that have served their community for half a century. The one thing that would help keep my kids—or any child—off the streets is access to good education. A referendum was placed on the ballot for November 12, 2013.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111