The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

As part of BDEA’s competency-based approach, all new students take a trimester-long course in which they study math, English language arts and science together. They are then placed in courses that match their skill levels — regardless of age or whatever letter grades they earned in the subjects at their previous schools.

Dropout 97

Dropout Policies Report Course 97

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Of course, parents are notified and are usually supportive of the opportunity to improve a grade. Brookhart (ASCD, 2013). Over time, though, they learn that doing it right is better than always redoing. And if they refuse? They earn a low D for the project with the option to redo at any time, even after the new marking period begins.

Secondary 40

Secondary Assessment Strategy Examples 40

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Of course, the benefits (or risks) associated with the amount of free time depends on what kids do with that free time. In fact, friends are of the utmost importance to tweens and teens and understandably so (Berscheid, 2003; Gifford-Smith & Brownell, 2003). 2013; National Sleep Foundation, 2006).

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. Finally, Stephen writes: Of course [Wiley] wants us to stop talking about cost – that would deflect the criticism of his own business model.

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The number of kids in foster care also started rising in 2013, Sprow said, ending a years-long decline. In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003.

Policies 68

Policies System Groups Advocacy 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As well as teaching a graduate course at Columbia Teacher''s College in Educational Technology and directing the Technology and Innovation at The School, he is an author for Pearson''s Interactive Science Program (a K-8 Science series for 21st century schools). Next in the Festival Five family series came Night Time! Father Goose).Sea

Conference 59

Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games. What have we missed that’s on your wishlist?

Exercises 40

Exercises System Software Comparison 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2013

Date : Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2013-04-23.0918.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link]. That recompense meshed ideally with the quality of his coaching.

Blackboard 72

Blackboard Assessment Analysis Study 72

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

This article examines four steps I undertook when teaching a first year undergraduate accounting course. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. I designed an assessment for a first year undergraduate financial accounting course. 2002) and used by other academics (e.g.

Online Assessments 40

Online Assessments Flipped Classroom Assessment Classroom 40

MindShift

MAY 15, 2019

percent in 2003 to 8.4 All the materials for the course are available on the TRAILS website , so school staff can pick and choose different activities. Schools in Michigan have taken to TRAILS since it first started as a pilot program in 2013. percent in 2011–2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Tools 51

Tools Training Groups Exercises 51

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 8, 2021

I’m pretty cagey about sharing personal details about where I live for privacy reasons but back in 2013, we bought a little cottage in the mountains about 2 hours outside of Brooklyn where my husband is based, and over the years I have increasingly spent more and more time here. So that was the first half of my summer.

Secondary 59

Secondary System Meeting Elementary 59

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., 2013) define UDL as “a set of principles and techniques for use in the classroom along with the design of accessible instructional materials.” UDL is being used in various content areas including lesson planning (Courey et al, 2013; Van Laarhoven et al.,

UDL 120

UDL Learning Accessibility Collaborative Learning 120

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Students Learning 100 Percent Online The availability of online learning continues to increase with only 27 percent of high school principals reporting that they are not yet offering any online courses for students. Only 8 percent of high school students were interested in fully online learning in 2013.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Between the 2013-14 school year and the 2015-16 school year, the city added about 16,000 preschool students and 2,000 teachers. “We When she got her first preschool classroom in 2003 though, she said she had to write her own curriculum and figure out what her kids needed. Photo: Jamie Martines. Teachers like Kendall know this.

Training 40

Training Classroom Study Groups 40

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Use Alma for course registration. As a classroom teacher, Mark was recognized as New Hampshire’s Technology Using Educator of the Year in 2003. From Chromebooks in 2012, Securly in 2013, and with Massac as one of the first school districts to deploy Alma in Illinois, Tom thoroughly enjoys early-adoption projects.

Chromebook 95

Chromebook Future Ready Google System 95

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Of course, we can also do our part by making guns harder to access, but that’s a whole other column.). If the administration takes more of the NRA’s suggestions, I guess this would include replacing outside shrubbery with “thorn-bearing and sharp-leaved plant species,” which 2013 report. But why is connectedness so important?

Comparison 110

Comparison Report Training Study 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He received, among many global awards, the million-dollar TED Prize in 2013. In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

Learning 48

Learning Conference Social Media Secondary 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Completion rates for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid increased to 54 percent, compared to 48 percent for the state, and the share of students taking college-level courses grew to 74 percent, compared to 48 percent at non-funded schools. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class. Related: Jobs in cybersecurity are exploding.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Of course, traditional newspapers feature writing of all sorts–straight reporting, editorials, features, columns, advertisements and comments in their digital versions. Mandalios, J.

Social Media 40

Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. In 2003, when Robert Clark retired, his son Bryant Clark ran for his father’s old seat.

Outcomes 139

Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. The first in his family to go to college, he used the GI Bill to pay for classes that earned him a bachelor’s degree in 2013.

Policies 139

Policies Company Report Advocacy 139

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Of course, this is a silly delineation as much of what people count as ed-tech doesn’t improve learning at all, and many individuals who are actively seeking to improve themselves – their “learning outcomes” – require financial assistance in order to do so. So that’s also a business opportunity , of course.

Technology 48

Technology Education Industry Company 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” He has been the president of the student loan org Strada Education Network (formerly known as USA Funds) since 2013. ” Still more student loan news in the legal section above.

Education 47

Education Pearson OER Report 47

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Three predominantly white schools, Corner High, Mortimer Jordan High, and Oak Grove High, and two predominantly black schools, Center Point High and Minor High, would send some of their students there for CTE courses. A referendum was placed on the ballot for November 12, 2013. Some people are only forced to be around other people.”.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The reporting often isolates education technology from other developments in the computer technology sector and tends to isolate education technology from education politics and policies more broadly (unless, of course, those policies dovetail with the political interests of ed-tech and ed-reform, which they often do).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40