The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In the heart of the Deep South, Mississippi has wrestled with enduring educational disparities, a profoundly rooted challenge passed down through generations. Mississippi’s past, marked by a legacy of racial segregation and educational inequality, continues to cast a long shadow on its present and future.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2021

Leila Nuland, Managing Director of the K-12 Research Team at Hanover Research, explained how district leaders can compile and utilize data on educational equity. Starting with the Data. To make the process of increasing educational equity manageable, Dr. Nuland recommends viewing it as a three-year process.

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Policies Data Professional Learning Analysis 62

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” 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. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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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. But as my colleague Ryan Craig likes to say, no one has ever gone broke betting against the pace of change in higher education. With two-thirds of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. The data comes from 2,700 colleges and universities that operate summer programs and could provide historical data from previous summers. Now the proof is starting to come in.

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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. In Washington, nine community colleges offer education degrees. Two other states, Texas and Wyoming, offer early childhood education degrees.). (Two

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Training Education Elementary Report 101

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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Blended Learning Course Software Technology 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Her parents wanted to get her a special education designation — and all the supports that came with it. The short answer, according to special education lawyers and advocates across the country, is no. Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. But that doesn’t stop it from happening frequently.

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. It’s time we acknowledge that our education systems are directly contributing to the youth mental health crisis. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. They can stop teaching to the test and educate parents on why they are doing so.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. Getty Images. We’ve always done this.

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Dropout Education System Data 107

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. 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.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 143

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.

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Study STEM Meeting Report 193

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. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated equity gaps in higher education in devastating ways, and we cannot afford to sit idly by.

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Outcomes Report System Trends 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

That’s according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, which tracks these things. It’s an app that collects publicly available data so that you can compare and contrast colleges across the country. Everyone stopped having babies in 2008. Kirk: Come on. Will you text me that?

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Report Trends Accessibility Advocacy 75

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. Digital divide: facts and figures.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Focusing on student engagement, student empowerment, and equity in education, they shared key lessons educators learned during the lockdown. Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. Overall, the latest results reveal important changes in the education conversation.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

To help teachers with the transition to online instruction, an edWebinar hosted by SETDA featured educators sharing what is working for them as they teach students online during the COVID-19 crisis. In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. Earlier data from summer course taking suggested that Black students might be dropping out of college at higher rates than other races and ethnicities. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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Report Survey Dropout Comparison 132

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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Social Media Policies Data Report 103

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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Assessment Course Data Student Engagement 60

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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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Online Learning Student Data Privacy Learning Data 54

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Of all the education technology startups that could go public next, there’s one that’s likely not on your radar: Busuu , a London-based developer of a language-learning platform. How They Work Busuu has grown considerably since its 2008 founding. Education clients have included Texas Tech University.

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Company EdTech Learning Exercises 86

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized. call this “the access hypothesis.” Grimaldi et al.

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

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. A large majority of respondents say that students are not reaching high levels of educational achievement today.

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Digital Learning Survey Learning EdTech 108

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

This data points toward one of the major issues with school lunches in America. Develop your leadership skills and expand your knowledge of how to improve student academic performance in our online Master of Arts in Education degree program. 7 million pay full price (school districts set their own prices for paid meals). Learn more!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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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Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

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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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

JANUARY 16, 2020

I expect myself to make more than $72,000 immediately after graduation,” said Polanco, whose parents were educated professionals in the Dominican Republic but gave up their careers when they immigrated. But access to institutions that are flipping that narrative and boosting social mobility, like 26,814-student Stony Brook, has declined.

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Mobility Report Accessibility Policies 101

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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How To Report Accessibility Policies 145

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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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Advocacy Policies Report Accessibility 101

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Higher Education. ” “The optimal outcome, of course, is for student to both work and complete a degree,” said Douglas, who is also a visiting professor of education at Trinity College in Hartford. Nationally, according to federal data , about 40 percent of undergraduates don’t work.) Mississippi Learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 127

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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