The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since at least 2006 , technology leaders and mathematicians have argued that data is the new oil. This isn’t the fault of teachers, but rather of the system and the systemic choices we have made to date that heavily constrain classroom time. The coursework should be challenging but accessible — “low floor, high ceiling.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the wake of COVID-19, TCS moved the IMFIS program to a 100 percent virtual format, helping improve equity and access to high-quality digital content for educators and students, specifically those from under resourced communities. TCS will continue growing its investment to bring IMFIS to every student and educator in the U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Included in the weeklong, free festivities are activities and challenges culminating with NFL PLAY 60 Kids Day, a day of action to inspire kids to get moving with their classmates, teachers, and families inclusive of virtual, hybrid, and socially distant classroom settings. On Wednesday, February 3 at 1 p.m. ET/ 12 p.m. CT/ 10 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

There’s untapped potential among people who work in schools right now, as classroom aides, lunchroom workers, afterschool staff and more, the thinking goes, and helping them become teachers could ease the shortage that’s dire in some districts around the country, particularly in rural areas like this one. What if we eliminate the question?”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Discovery Education —the Charlotte, North Carolina based global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms—today announced the appointment of Scott Kinney as its new Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as the company’s new President.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. billion in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The blueprint calls for a 37,000 square-foot facility that will include classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices. Slated to open in two years, the Delgado West Bank Campus Advanced Technology Center will offer two-year and certificate programs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

Lab activities can be one of the most effective ways to show children how global warming works on an accessible scale. The 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth and its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power have curricular materials created in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Spatial reasoning provides multiple entry points and equitable access to mathematics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2016

My dear friend and former Flat Classroom administrator Lisa Durff is also involved.). This project is based upon the work I’ve done previously on projects like the Flat Classroom Project, Horizon Project, NetGenEd, Digiteen, Digitween, Eracism, a Week in the Life, Physics of the Future, Gamifi-ED and now MAD about Mattering!

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MindShift

JULY 8, 2019

Quigley is one of dozens of students at Brownsville Collaborative Middle School who in the past year built a high-tech, high-yield farm inside a third-floor classroom. Now, thanks to the onsite farm, students have daily access to salad greens, cooking greens, and other fruits and vegetables such as cucumbers. Robin Lloyd/for NPR).

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Survey System Study Report 51

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

In perhaps the only attempt to summarize the detracking literature, a 2009 summary of 15 studies from 1972 to 2006 concluded that detracking improved academic outcomes for lower-ability students, but had no effect on average and high-ability students. Related: Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

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Trends Outcomes Report Study 129

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. But many of the 747 charters have implemented policies that critics say make it difficult for lower-income families to access them. In December of 2006, the school board called a special meeting.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These guidelines help ensure that media creation in the classroom is a product of student planning, research, and analysis—not just special effects and soundtracks. acronym for teachers to help students successfully create media in the classroom. How can we make the learning inside our classrooms more real for our students?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s called “Course Access” or “Course Choice.” This initiative, often called “Course Choice” or “Course Access,” is, as one proponent described it, like “ school choice on steroids.”. And, not unlike what often happens with charter schools and vouchers, the Course Access policies can set up a competition for limited education dollars.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Via Reuters : “How a Chinese company bought access to admissions officers at top U.S. And the “ queen sacrifices ,” for those who don’t know that terminology, is what Alexander calls it when a college sacrifices its most powerful resource – its faculty – in order to stem financial problems.

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