The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate. It’s a model that’s paid dividends for the district. Getting there wasn’t easy.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. A coach was meeting with a student virtually behind a glass door decorated with a decal of a stylized Rosie the Riveter. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). These are annual meetings for ministers of education and government policymakers. For today's topic, host Howard Blumenthal welcomes Diane Ravitch , New York University Research Professor in the Dept.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners. The companies select them,” Sorrell said. Sorrell took over as president of Paul Quinn in 2007 and is its longest serving president. You have to compete.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The one Galt’s fourth-graders take comes from the CliftonStrengths Youth Explorer, a framework developed and sold by Gallup, the 82-year-old management consulting company best known for its public opinion polling. From 2014-15 to 2016-17, the percentage of the district’s students meeting or exceeding standards rose from 37 to 43.1

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Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

What is surprising is that, five decades into a crisis that now has become existential, the to-do list in a session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities earlier this year, about turning this around, began with a remarkably basic question: “Define ‘liberal arts.’”.

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Study Survey Outcomes Report 87

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At There’s also a running club, and the teachers themselves often start staff meetings with a few laps around the school track.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 105

MindShift

JUNE 3, 2016

Kim and his students formed the EK Theater company, whose tagline compactly sums their vision: retelling classical stories through video games. Although based out of a school, EK Theater operates like a professional company. They see it as being an accessible art form. As the story unfolded, the audience became more interested.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All sessions are recorded so you can access later. We had two people meet in our rooms a few years ago — Will Piper , who is at the University School of Milwaukee , and Pedro Aparicio , who is a teacher in Mexico City. Vicki: So Steve, people from all over the world can participate and join in, right? Lucy: Yes, we are.

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Conference Education Social Media Twitter 223

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Companies selling admissions algorithms say they have a fairer, more scientific way to predict student success. A Boston Globe analysis of more than 100 high school valedictorians from the classes of 2005 to 2007 found that 25 percent didn’t get a bachelor’s degree within six years. Enter the algorithms. But this play has a purpose.

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Data Learning Analytics Company Assessment 214

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The growth has helped it stay competitive within the Ivy League and meet its broader ambitions to become a global institution. This is a really nothing more than a land grab of the most extreme type,” Sprayregen said in 2007. The only private universities that meet that threshold are Columbia and N.Y.U. He died in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

The increased interest in work-based learning opportunities comes at a time when companies nationwide are calling for more skilled workers, and not just for jobs that require a college degree. During the program, students have access to internships and work experience.

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. But many of the 747 charters have implemented policies that critics say make it difficult for lower-income families to access them. Company officials and their allies sit on many of the county’s most important boards. GREENSBORO, Ga.

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Report Company Data Meeting 112

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Via Recode : “ Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment.” The company has $8.3 ” Education in the Courts.

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Leverenz and other critics have singled out two educational nonprofits — Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen — both of which rake in millions of dollars a year from their national holdings of EBS licenses, while using just a fraction of the revenue to supply much-needed broadband access to students. The Consortium for School Networking.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Like many students in the district, she has no access to the internet at home. A 2007 Texas State University study, published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, found that when students were presented with high-quality online math instruction they did better on tests than those taught in a more traditional way.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

She drove home and called the company headquarters in another city. An official with the company, asked to comment on Carman’s experience, said he disagreed with her description of the facts but declined to provide specifics. “We She called a sheet metal company she’d worked for previously and was given a position in the shop.

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Industry Training Conference Company 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Here’s a science textbook I was assigned at his school in 2007. The sale of the Apollo Education Group , parent company of the University of Phoenix , has been finalized. Student loan company SoFi will acquire Zenbanx. ” Via Bill Fitzgerald : “Accessible tips for people to protect their privacy.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. “ Could virtual reality set new standards for educational access? Presidential-Elect Donald J.

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Education Pearson Common Core Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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