Doug Levin

JULY 12, 2017

, I revisited the central prediction of the first edition of Disrupting Class (2008), which was that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet. For those without access to the original text, the Summer 2008 edition (Vol.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The data comes from 2,700 colleges and universities that operate summer programs and could provide historical data from previous summers. But, according to Shapiro, this summer report is “very suggestive that we’re going to see continued gaps in [college] access for disadvantaged students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

Since it seems near certain that the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a new recession right now, I thought it would be useful to recap what happened to colleges and universities during the Great Recession of 2008 to help us think through what might and might not repeat this time around. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Analyzing data from Burning Glass , Wharton professor Matthew Bidwel found a diminishing number of entry-level jobs requiring a degree. In 2008, it was global experience. Not only did postings for bachelor’s level jobs fall the most, but entry-level jobs also dropped farthest and fastest. With two-thirds of U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

The most recent data NACS has on the latter behavior is from the fall of 2017, when 4 percent of respondents reported obtaining materials through illegal downloads. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to the American Psychological Association, students from more affluent families are more likely to have access to resources such as devices, internet, dedicated work space and the support necessary to complete their work successfully—and homework can highlight those inequities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Teacher Shortage.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2024

Well, Kim says it really started about 16 years ago, after the 2008 Great Recession. And that’s because, after 2008, facing demographic shifts and shrinking student enrollment numbers, public colleges began fiercely competing for out-of-state students who they can charge much more in tuition and fees. Kirk: Yeah.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2021

Back in 2008, Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa published his dissertation, The Scientifically Substantiated Art of Teaching , after recognizing that concepts from “brain-based learning” were being applied indiscreetly to classroom teaching practices. One, researchers get better data.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Now, however, access to technology is becoming a rights issue. As of 2008, 100% of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

We analyzed College Scorecard data and found that students from the lowest-income households who entered for-profit institutions in 2007 or 2008 were earning less than $25,000 per year, on average, as of 2015. And more often than not, for-profit institutions failed to deliver adequate outcomes for their students.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. Participating schools and districts receive free summary reports, including locally collected data plus state and national data for benchmarks. But one of the key factors emerging is equitable access to quality teachers.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. “ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). It’s easier to use ed tech as a teaching tool when you’re adept at using it. By Andrew Lang.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s an app that collects publicly available data so that you can compare and contrast colleges across the country. Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. Everyone stopped having babies in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Earlier data from summer course taking suggested that Black students might be dropping out of college at higher rates than other races and ethnicities. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. The number of international students has plummeted almost 14 percent.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Rather, they are digging through social media and other more ambiguous forms of data to predict and apprehend students who could potentially become threats in the future, and the work may be spreading. The state safety proposal notes that current social media surveillance activities, outside of fusion centers, cannot access private content.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They can dramatically cut the cost and raise the convenience of earning a teaching degree, while making a job in education accessible to a wider diversity of people. Teachers in Yakima, where a significant part of the population speaks only Spanish, have access to an English Language Learner endorsement.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

During a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by The ProEthica® Program, the superintendent of one of America’s largest school districts spoke with a former state superintendent and other education leaders about key issues affecting students, parents, and educators, including digital access and equity, online privacy, and funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

How They Work Busuu has grown considerably since its 2008 founding. Busuu is free for individuals, and a premium package for about $70 a year offers practice with live native speakers and offline access to course materials. We will now empower their tutors with the data points of our users.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER? The most popular hypothesis is that the affordability of OER creates more access for students, and that this increase in access is what will drive changes in outcomes. Grimaldi et al.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

This data points toward one of the major issues with school lunches in America. In 2008, a Journal of School Health study discovered that fifth-graders eating fast food scored worse on standardized literary assessments. Access to proper nutrition can help students maintain psychosocial well-being and reduce aggression.

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MindShift

MAY 16, 2018

New research, published Wednesday in Pediatrics, finds children ages 5 to 17 visited children’s hospitals for suicidal thoughts or attempts about twice as often in 2015 as in 2008. The findings line up with past data showing a steady increase in teen suicide over the past decade. “The No. Such visits represented 0.7

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

When “ Disrupting Class ” was published in 2008, we caused a stir by predicting that by the fall of 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses would be delivered online in some form or fashion. But it’s not clear whether teachers are aware of these findings or can access them.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. This data is “hidden” inside governance claims that include charters as if they are traditional public schools and underestimate the homeschooling movement. .

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Smithsonian offer parts of their collections to be organized and made accessible by employing the services citizen volunteers. These human intensive efforts will improve access to documents computers cannot accurately read, for instance, letters the public wrote to Abraham Lincoln.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report. college or university.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

Last year alone, more than 900,000 low-income students who applied for and were found eligible for state financial aid for college never received it, because states ran out of money, according to a new analysis of state data by The Hechinger Report. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

But Douglas and Attewell had rare access to student employment records because a large public university system merged its students’ transcript data with state records reporting wage and employment information during and after college. Nationally, according to federal data , about 40 percent of undergraduates don’t work.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. There are only enough licensed spots for 23 percent of infants and toddlers in the country — according to data collected before the pandemic shuttered many centers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

But access to institutions that are flipping that narrative and boosting social mobility, like 26,814-student Stony Brook, has declined. The anonymized federal tax data used to analyze access and mobility rates was released as part of a one-time agreement with Harvard.). percent were from the bottom bracket.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

I have been a full-time remote professional for nearly 12 years, ever since I went from working at home a day or two a week to doing so full time in 2008. The landscape has changed a lot since then, according to Flexjobs analysis of data from the U.S. Are you required to provide your own internet access? Census Bureau and U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To tackle this major problem, Digital Promise , a nonprofit founded in 2008 with authorization from Congress, has been steadfastly working on a framework for “ micro-credentials.” Classroom videos, student work samples and lesson plans are among the materials—which are accessible via the badge—serve as evidence.

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