article thumbnail

How Internships Connect First Generation College Bound Students to STEM Careers

MindShift

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. Read more about higher education.

STEM 38
article thumbnail

Students with disabilities often left out of popular ‘dual-language’ programs

The Hechinger Report

Suleika Soto, BPS mother and director of the Boston Education Justice Alliance Historically, few English learners with disabilities in BPS have had access to both bilingual and special education. “I I don’t see the urgency for them to serve these kids.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. Oh, and by the way, U.S.

Kaplan 157
article thumbnail

How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs

The Hechinger Report

The launch marked the latest effort by the 5-year-old charter school, to expose students to the skills they’ll need to access high-tech jobs. For example, the Silicon Valley Education Foundation’s summer program, Elevate Math, is raising algebra readiness, a critical first step on the STEM success track. No physics in high school.

article thumbnail

When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Wages climbed for college grads in the 1970s and 80s, says Mishel, but since 2002 wage growth for people with a bachelors has been stagnant. But Lawrence Mishel, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute, sees it much differently: “I think we’re way past that tipping point.”.

Policies 110
article thumbnail

To Leverage Tech in Writing Instruction, This Superintendent Channeled Justin Bieber

Edsurge

Henry County schools have high-speed broadband access and provide iPads to every student in grades three through nine. “Several teachers who have seen the tool said, ‘We want to give it a try,’” Cotton says, “because they saw its ability to give students lots of feedback very quickly.

article thumbnail

From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Obstacles to Implementing the Vision in Virginia. You know, Charlottesville is the center of Albemarle County.