The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Free, online teacher and parent training designed to improve the executive functioning of elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is now accessible across the nation. The availability of this training is possible due . Aurora, Colo.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. Stennis as “politically moderate.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. I used to work in cafes and restaurants and in 2005 me and friend of mine set up this company with social responsibility.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I The concept behind the program is recruiting, training and certifying minority men to become elementary school teachers in South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Meanwhile, black and Hispanic students make up the fastest-growing proportion of Iowa primary and secondary school students , up from 13 percent in 2005 to 21 percent today. “We Those gaps also could be filled by on-the-job training, apprenticeships and other innovations, said Merisotis. “We Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This was demonstrated when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans in 2005 — it was mainly black people who lived in the Lower 9th Ward, who not only suffered from the direct impact of the storm, but were also burdened by the discrimination that preceded and followed it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Brain Training. You're sexist.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

We will also need volunteer moderators for sessions rooms--if you've been through our training before (and even if you haven't!), Anne served as a Senate Fellow and as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer, founding a community technology training center in San Diego. The call for proposals is open now at [link]. He’s been awarded the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

We will also need volunteer moderators for sessions rooms--if you've been through our training before (and even if you haven't!), Anne served as a Senate Fellow and as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer, founding a community technology training center in San Diego. The call for proposals is open now at [link]. He’s been awarded the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Related: How teacher-training programs are trying to get teachers into rural schools. produced and directed a documentary film called Corridor of Shame , released in April 2005 and shown on public television statewide. Bud Ferillo is a preppy, genteel sort of hellraiser. The activist and former legislator from Columbia, S.C.,

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

. “Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes -- think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. There are plans for a training college to teach cybersecurity skills to 16–19 year olds at the Buckinghamshire site.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes – think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. Experimenting on the least vulnerable – that is, far too often, how education technology works as well.)

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