The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Generation Hope, the nonprofit I founded in 2010 to help young parents earn their college degrees while readying their children for kindergarten, conducted a national survey of student parents this spring. In recent years, as U.S.

Policies 133

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

They say college should not be a time for a lot of survey courses. But it’s the job of our nation’s higher education institutions — not just their education departments — to ensure new teachers can teach the concepts they may not have learned themselves in K-12. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletters.

Elementary 111

Elementary Course Study Trends 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

While many families are eager for a return to in-person learning this fall, others are not: Surveys show that some families are reluctant to return — and, that Black and Asian families are the most likely to feel this way. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students. But some kids have thrived.

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Report Personalized Learning Survey Training 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In a recent survey of the state’s superintendents conducted by the University of Southern Maine, roughly a quarter of respondents said they planned to stick with a proficiency-based diploma, even though the law no longer requires it. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Such proactive efforts help keep more students on track as they learn how to manage challenges in a positive way, officials said. During orientation, incoming Paul Quinn students learn about the clinic, campus services and the mental health assessment they can opt out of if they choose.

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Report Resources Groups Accessibility 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

In principle, kids who participate will not only learn about science but may also be inspired to join the next generation of scientists and engineers. In a study published last year, Grinnell surveyed 302 students (from high school through graduate school) about their experience with science fairs. Related: Take our audience survey.

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Study Survey Exercises Examples 94

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Back then, children played in the streets with other neighborhood kids, learning how to navigate the world by interacting with one another. University of Michigan researchers surveyed how families spent their time in 1981 and again in 1997. By 2003, that amount of time dropped by another 4 percent.

Mobility 53

Mobility Survey Groups How To 53

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. They include the MIT Media Lab, which is using the system for an educational robotics project, and Lingumi, a developer of an English learning app for young children.

Exercises 65

Exercises Company Data Assessment 65

ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Its goal is to make machines able to account for the things they learn, in ways that we can understand. In 2015, a group of female tech investors and executives conducted a survey of two hundred senior-level women in Silicon Valley. " The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem ," by Sheelah Kolhatkar.

Broadband 52

Broadband Guidelines Survey Report 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

” In surveys conducted by GradeCraft’s inventors, students reported that they worked harder and felt more in control of their class performance. But it’s unclear if students are actually learning more. No one is asking these students to take additional, outside assessments to measure their learning gains.

Outcomes 67

Outcomes System Course Report 67

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

In a recent report, Education Week dug deep into student proficiency rates on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) from 2003 through 2015. Based on those reports, Education Week found a “modest degree of improvement” in academic achievement by fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and math from 2003 to 2015.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. Just ask Ashley Mingo, a junior at the Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. There are big gender differences, particularly over video games.

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Smartphone Social Media Survey Report 33

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2018

In the past decade or so, a growing number of schools have adopted curricula on social and emotional learning, including an emphasis on growth mindsets (as defined by psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford) and developing a stick-to-it quality called grit (as explored by Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania). Future of Learning.

Social Media 102

Social Media Study Report Exercises 102

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

adults when compared with results from previous adult surveys.”. According to the PIAAC’s 2013 report, which included 5,000 people in each country surveyed (more on the methodology here ) and was designed as a household study of nationally representative samples of adults ages 16-65, data on U.S. Since 2003, the percentages of U.S.

Data 40

Data Secondary Assessment Survey 40

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.

Groups 52

Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Elbert Hubbard As a second year teacher, I remember being very excited about leading my students to participate in a project-based learning activity. As champions we must learn to put ourselves in the shoes of a late adopter or laggard, then try to help them along. The constant for all teachers is students and their learning needs.

Examples 56

Examples Strategy Technology Study 56

MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2018

In the past decade or so, a growing number of schools have adopted curricula on social and emotional learning, including an emphasis on growth mindsets (as defined by psychologist Carol Dweck of Stanford) and developing a stick-to-it quality called grit (as explored by Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania).

Social Media 76

Social Media Study Exercises Survey 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

The number of all-important graduate school applications from abroad is down for the second year in a row, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, after increasing every year since 2003. The American Bar Association reports that law school enrollment was up incrementally this year , but that’s after falling 29 percent since 2010.

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Report Survey Study Strategy 106

MindShift

MARCH 28, 2018

In principle, kids who participate will not only learn about science but may be inspired to join the next generation of scientists and engineers. In a study published last year, Grinnell surveyed 302 students (from high school through graduate school) about their experience with science fairs. But the fairs also have problems.

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Study Exercises Examples Analysis 48

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Source: Met Life Survey of the American Teacher, The Homework Experience, 2007. (LA In that 2012 NAEP survey, 13 percent of 17-year-olds reported doing more than two hours of homework the previous night. He and his team reviewed dozens of studies, from 1987 to 2003, looking for consensus on what works and what doesn’t.

Comparison 28

Comparison Survey Report Study 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. A 2016 survey of rising seniors and their parents by the firm found that half of respondents said they would never consider a school with high tuition.

Data 94

Data Report Strategy Study 94

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

Survey 74

Survey Blackboard Learning Data 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

While my experiences of living in another country included the challenges of learning a new language and eating unfamiliar food, it was learning to see the world through the eyes of other people and their culture that was the truly lasting gift of that year. How do we discuss that? What are we to think about it?

Social Media 44

Social Media Groups Study Facebook 44

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Many schools have reduced or even eliminated recess for elementary school children, and several have cut back on free play and play-based learning in the early grades such as kindergarten and first grade (Zygmunt-Fillwalk & Bilello, 2005). Unfortunately, time for free play within school hours has also declined. How much is too much?

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain. Hallmarked by high-interaction and high-context situational learning, LBMLGs provide students with the opportunity to visit real locations and adopt new perspectives.

Mobile Learning 0

Mobile Learning Mobility Gamification Learning 0

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. The study, set to test how well the students learned math in spring of 2020, was derailed by the pandemic. But a private foundation salvaged it.

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Khan Academy Study Report Software 131

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2023

A quarter of all providers surveyed between March 2021 and December 2022 reported difficulty affording housing expenses, regardless of whether they rented or owned their homes. By 2003, Wise had three young children of her own. Historically, she says, “When [the owners] learned what I did, they said, ‘Nope, nope, nope, nope.’

Report 132

Report Survey Mobility Company 132

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 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. million grandparents living with grandchildren for whom they were responsible.

Policies 69

Policies System Groups Advocacy 69

The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

The ultimate learning experience for students is both highly collaborative and extremely personalized, supported by mobile devices and digital content, reports Project Tomorrow in their latest Speak Up report. Among high school students, 58 percent said they now use their own mobile device at school to support learning activities.

Mobility 40

Mobility Blended Learning STEM Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Engineering “allows for all kinds of learning to shine.”. Since 2003, more than 15 million 6- to 11- year-olds at thousands of schools across the country have been taught how to think like engineers using the curriculum. Numerous surveys have found that nearly half of elementary school teachers feel underprepared to teach science.

How To 112

How To Elementary STEM Report 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

“It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘Which four in 10 students don’t deserve to learn to read?'” Silva didn’t know anything about how children learn to read or how they should be taught, so he started searching online. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

Training 112

Training Elementary Report Study 112

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students, within their group, can immediately reflect on this feedback and this presents a ‘peer-learning’ opportunity. This is consistent with the team-learning model designed by Michaelsen (1998) (see also Michaelsen et al. As students complete the team quiz they find out whether their answer is correct or incorrect in real time.

Online Assessments 40

Online Assessments Flipped Classroom Assessment Classroom 40

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

Since 2003, more than 15 million 6- to 11- year-olds at thousands of schools across the country have been taught how to think like engineers using the curriculum. Teacher professional development options run the gamut from a one-day class for teachers new to the curriculum to a three-day session for teachers learning to train other teachers.

STEM 44

STEM How To Elementary Report 44

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Certainly, teams have conducted bogus interviews to fulfill the rule’s requirements without any intention of hiring that person, but since the rule was enacted in 2003, the league has seen a significant increase in the number of black head coaches. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter.

Education 59

Education Data Study Report 59

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Instead of requiring that students learn the knowledge and skills to protect their health, the Texas Health & Safety Code mandates educators teach students that being Queer is not acceptable. In 2003, Section 21.06 For context, No Promo Homo was signed into law in the early 1990s at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Classroom 34

Classroom Policies Instructional Materials Survey 34

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

The third story, about the lessons to be learned from Head Start, can be found here. I feel like children are learning so much more now,” said Kendall, who was inspired to leave a communications job at Lehman Brothers, the now-defunct investment bank, and become a teacher after Sept. Without the caring, little learning can take place.

Training 40

Training Classroom Study Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

At least 17 percent of high schoolers nationwide had “seriously considered” attempting suicide and 14 percent reported they had made a suicide plan in the past year, according to the results of the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the CDC. Still, Wheeler acknowledged that tactic may not catch every student in need.

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Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145