The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. Monday, Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2016

The group reviewed 15 traditional teacher preparation programs at 23 different sites in Mississippi and found that the content taught in classes and the hours spent on instruction vary greatly among programs, but that new teachers often learn strategies to teach literacy that aren’t research-based.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." MacArthur Foundation and is included in the Foundation''s digital media and learning program. What does "participatory learning" actually mean, and how does it intersect with digital media?

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. Since 2003, the percentages of U.S.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

The Traditional Model The traditional model used by organizational learning theorists begins with the depth of knowledge. Current organizational learning and knowledge literature identify and categorize 12 different types of knowledge depending on the location in which the knowledge is created and the depth of knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

All students need to be deeply known by the adults that are working with them to support their learning,” she said. Once students have demonstrated competency in a course through a written or project-based assessment, they can move on to the next course in that subject area at their own pace. Based on what you know.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

based nonprofit focused on an intergenerational approach to policy. 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. . $4 billion — The amount the U.S. Generations United, a Washington, D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. According to the American Institutes of Research, Minnesota spent $130 million between 2003 and 2008 just on educating students who dropped out in their first year.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2017

He has been interviewed by and featured in MSNBC, US News and World Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Pew Research, Campus Technology, and the Connected Learning Alliance. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of St.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 12 The latter can be identified with norm-referenced measures in state and standardized reading assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 31, 2017

He has been interviewed by and featured in MSNBC, US News and World Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Pew Research, Campus Technology, and the Connected Learning Alliance. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of St.

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Connecting 2 the World

APRIL 11, 2012

The concept of knowledge and knowledge creation identified by organizational learning theorists can be termed as negotiated knowledge. This meaning making and perspective taking leads to higher order thinking and knowledge creation (Ede & Lunsford, 1990; Gunawardena, Lowe, & Anderson, 1997; Hagtvet & Wol, 2003; Jarvela & Hakkinen, 2002).

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

As I revisit the complex and often debated topic of learning styles in this post, it’s hard not to reflect on the diverse and passionate responses it elicits each time I address it. Previously, I have written posts featuring articles that critique the theory of learning styles , highlighting its contentious standing in academic circles.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

At the event, Carolyn Sykora , Senior Director of the ISTE Standards Program, shared that the 1998 standards described a landscape in which we were learning to use technology. The 2007 standards described a landscape in which we were using technology to learn. We’ve nurtured and grown flexible Learning Commons.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2013

In 1992, he took early retirement from UCLA upon learning that emeritus professors received free parking. His most recent books are Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th Ed. He was also the founding editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, a quarterly journal published by AERA.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

Many of those proposals are rooted in popular ideas about the best ways to teach civics, including when kids should start, what they should learn and how to apply those lessons. ” And according to Jim Shon of the Hawaii Educational Policy Center, civics education needs to extend into college. Little kids know about rules.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

More about this week's guests: Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Howard Blumenthal created and produced the PBS television series, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2012

With four thoughtful and articulate education thinkers, my job will be to help them describe their alternative views to the current narratives that drive much of the impassioned debate around teaching and learning worldwide. psid=2012-08-08.0905.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the number of veterans using the benefit has doubled, to nearly 900,000 last year.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy assessed of the news literacy of students from middle school through college. NewseumED : Learning tools on media literacy. Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources NYTimes Learning Network.

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. About 76,000 black students learn in schools where they account for 90 percent or more of the enrollment. Related : Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

” And it sure isn’t “everyone should learn nursing.” ” Everyone Should Learn to Code. As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ghosts aside, Johnson, who retired as president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015, had plenty of true and truly troubling stories of more recent vintage that speak to Detroiters’ struggle to provide decent spaces for learning. While a school district assessment found Western will need $13.5 Ely Vasquez, student.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The author of the latest feasibility study—an expert who had been brought in by other splinter districts—agreed with that assessment. million black and Latino children are learning in segregated and high-poverty schools. While the district didn’t admit to improper transfers, it agreed to tighten up its transfer policies.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

“15 Ways Taylor Swift ’s Lyrics Solve Education Policy ’s Most Pressing Issues” is, no doubt, the most godawful white lady thing I’ve seen this week in education news. This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.”

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