The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Indeed, the new education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, has been positioned as a significant upgrade in both policy and practice. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

The Jose Vilson

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

The resistance towards affirmative action policies was in full force by my high school years, and in front of that picket line was none other than Justice Antonin Scalia, a Xavier HS alumni and valedictorian almost 50 years prior. In 2003, as a junior in college, a group of us drove down to Washington D.C.

Policies 60

Policies Groups Elementary Company 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

Personalized Learning 74

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 74

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The plan would close and replace low-performing schools, including turning some over to charters; give principals more power over their own curriculums, budgets and policies; raise taxes to fund the effort; and offer high-quality preschool to all children. Covid put the district’s gains in jeopardy.

Education 101

Education Report System Meeting 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. Too much of the school year revolved around preparing for Texas’s standardized tests.

Report 137

Report Personalized Learning Survey Training 137

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Zero tolerance policies, while trying to keep kids accountable for their actions, often result in suspensions for even minor infractions like dress code violations or being tardy. For instance, elementary-age kids might need lessons in empathy and emotion management. Align lessons to school-specific goals.

Training 40

Training Strategy Meeting System 40

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." He obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. This project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T.

Learning 73

Learning Policies Secondary Handbook 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

She worked physically demanding jobs until 2003 when she was injured, went back to school for office administration and found a job working for an attorney. Growing up in Texas decades earlier, she struggled too. She married at 14, had five children, endured abusive relationships and spent a few years in prison on drug charges.

Report 113

Report Exercises Video Education 113

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Even the best-laid plans will likely remain plans without effective communication and professional development for school faculty and staff, a mechanism for soliciting and truly hearing student voices, and extensive parent education on the goals you are trying to accomplish with your new policies and programs.

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2021

CASEL first published the Program Guide in 2003 and was last updated in 2015, it has become an essential resource for educators and was accessed more than 120,000 times, last year alone. Michigan Model for Health: Elementary. Elementary. Incredible Years?: Teacher Classroom Management Program & Dinosaur School. Leader in Me.

Learning 103

Learning Elementary Meeting Policies 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Platt called on educators to remember Second Life, an online platform launched in 2003 that that allowed users to create avatars and interact with other users in a virtual world. In a policy brief earlier this year, she explored how to bring the best educational practices into the metaverse as it’s being created.

Education 132

Education Digital Divide EdTech Company 132

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The Press-Register editorial board wrung its hands at how “obdurate desegregation policies” were wrecking the public schools. He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. Lee Academy moved to a new campus that fall, built on a former cotton field.

Report 107

Report Libraries Elementary System 107

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. The policy is to block first and only unblock in the face of a compelling case. Related: Is early childhood education ready for AI?

Social Media 59

Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson.

Survey 145

Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A 2003 study by researchers Adena Klem and James Connell of the nonprofit Institute for Research and Reform in Education found that a whopping 40 to 60 percent of all students are “chronically disengaged” from school, meaning that students don’t perceive themselves as having a strong support system within their educational environment.

Comparison 111

Comparison Report Training Study 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. Nationwide, AVID trains 70,000 educators yearly to provide academic and social support to low-income, first-generation students from elementary school through college. Why are women locked out?

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

In 2003, the high court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School ’s Grutter v. In addition, this is an area with modest application in higher education, as it tends to be used at colleges and universities with more selective admissions policies. More recently, in Fisher v.

Policies 51

Policies Secondary Report Analysis 51

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” More on the policy change via IHE. The winners of this year’s Harold W McGraw Jr Prize in Education : Dr. Christine Cunningham, Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) at the Museum of Science; Dr. Sandy Shugart, President of Valencia College; and Chris Anderson, TED “curator.”

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school. In 2003, when Robert Clark retired, his son Bryant Clark ran for his father’s old seat.

Outcomes 142

Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 142

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

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. Arguably this focus on CS was the one education policy pursued by Obama that Trump did not try to loudly reverse.)

Robotics 63

Robotics Company Industry Data 63

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

On a sticky 86-degree June day in Detroit, Maybury Elementary School’s sunbaked windows stand open in the occupied classrooms in the non-air-conditioned building. For now, children walk elementary school floors buckled so badly they appear to have waves. million in restoration. Having lost 1.1 Dana Dacres, parent.

Elementary 101

Elementary Report System Meeting 101

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Rather than regulating content on the Web writ large, it opted to restrict what schools and libraries that receive federal funding – through the Library Services and Technology Act, Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Act, the Museum and Library Services Act, or E-rate – could allow people to view online.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Gardendale would start with two elementary schools and would have to work in “good faith” to earn the middle and high schools. While the district didn’t admit to improper transfers, it agreed to tighten up its transfer policies. But by 2003, the damage had already been done. But in the end, that didn’t mean much.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111