Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Beyond teaching vocabulary, the program is designed to support students’ oral language skills, argumentation strategies, and writing skills, while also educating students about issues of current public interest.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But after the 2008 recession, local budget cuts forced class sizes to increase again, bumping the pupil-teacher ratio up to 16.1 There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

EverFi is a rare breed of education technology company that can boast a wide reach. It not only covers the K-12, higher education and corporate training markets, but its staff also work in some of the most remote corners of the country. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Coursera CEO Rick Levin.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since the 1990s, education stories emanating from Massachusetts have largely been positive, but that started to change over the last decade. The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Related: U.S.

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ViewSonic Education

JULY 10, 2022

Or learn more about ViewSonic’s solutions for education, work, and home here. . A compact, stripped-down version of the popular DisplayPort, the Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP, or MDP), is a digital audio-visual interface that was developed by Apple in October 2008. Technology evolves every day.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Comparisons to post-Katrina New Orleans make a lot of sense. The mass firing is a case study in itself of the way educators — including the black teachers who made up approximately 70 percent of the teaching force — are often devalued in the wake of a tragedy. They were replaced by a younger, whiter teaching corps.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At two-year community colleges, which educate about 40 percent of America’s college students, it was worse. In comparison, the drop in new students was only about half as much at public and nonprofit four-year institutions, which tend to serve higher income students. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

But thanks to a data collection effort by an expert in adult education at a nonprofit research organization in New York, Center for an Urban Future, we now have evidence of a sharp decline in new high school equivalency degrees in almost every state between 2012 and 2016. Many state budgets for equivalency test preparation were also cut.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

This is a continuation from yesterday''s blog post on changing times and the survival of higher education. Below are four reasons why the Social Web and associated media are changing higher education. Some were itinerant because of the nature of their jobs. Military students for example may be serving overseas, or in submarines.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. The decline of rural higher education is also widening one of America’s biggest equity challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

.” Ingersoll and his colleagues at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education analyzed teacher and school principal surveys , administered every four or so years by the federal government, to paint a picture of the teaching force and highlight trends. Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2018

According to Susan Wang, head of the ICS program at Mills, 86 percent of graduates from 2008 to 2017 went on to work in the tech industry. Still, the professor acknowledges that not everyone can afford the time and money for full-time university education, and thinks “the most options there are, the better.”

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Social media offers a ready platform for comparing oneself to others, a process called social comparison. Social comparison processes, already elevated during adolescence, are exacerbated by excessive media use and linked to depressive symptoms (Nesi & Prinstein, 2015). 2008; Desrosiers, Curtiss, Vine, & Klemanski, 2014).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. Even as educators from around the world flock to Finland to discover its magic formula, Estonia, just a two-hour ferry ride away, has not aroused the same degree of interest. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

of Education, 2018. As part of the federal recovery effort to boost the economy after the 2008 recession, the U.S. Education Department suddenly had a big pot of money to give away to “innovations” in education. ” “That’s the dirty secret of all of education research,” Goodson added.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Founded in 2008, it's a trusted resource for 15 years. These financial literacy skills include comparison shopping, avoiding online scams, effectively using credit, and investing. In addition, a recent August 2023 report from the Council for Economic Education brings more news. Before we dive in, let's talk about EVERFI.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Savvy practitioners in the field of education should be dissatisfied with this simplistic “checkbox” approach to evaluating program effectiveness. Savvy practitioners in the field of education should be dissatisfied with this simplistic “checkbox” approach to evaluating program effectiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

They’re taking advantage of a state-funded program aimed at bolstering early childhood development, and they come to the Grenada child care resource and referral center not just to borrow educational materials, but also to receive free training in health, safety and child development offered to child care providers or to attend classes for parents.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). Any day now.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

You wanna buy a college education? At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the overall proportion of Americans with higher educations has been slowly increasing, the proportions who are Black, Native American or Hispanic — like Navejas — are falling further behind, or staying no better than level. Hispanics remain roughly 25 percentage points behind whites, a difference almost unchanged since 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. In England, the country at large is instead investing in the education of young children right from the start. No country can serve as is a perfect comparison to the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The major testing corporations argue that standardized tests are required because there is no way to have a fair and direct comparison of students in different academic settings because schools, courses, and grades can differ. While this is true, it also is an attempt to prop up a false assumption that such tests are fair.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

. “It’s a temporary step backward,” said Marguerite Roza, d irector of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, explaining that states ran out of money after the 2008 recession, allowing rich communities to spend more and curbing extra funds to poor districts. Back then, school spending per student was only 1.7

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. This is the flip-side of the credit score comparison: students are not numbers, but complex individuals. That makes it easier for staff to make false assumptions.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. The push to find the best way to test the arts is coming from arts educators themselves in many instances. Yet access to arts education remains unequal. It’s a parity thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Atlanta Public Schools is on the leading edge of a new trend in education: getting helpful data to teachers in formats they can understand and leverage with their students. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Education data is notoriously fractured.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

But Robbins, the University of Connecticut professor, takes a different view: It’s a matter of convenience for school districts that don’t want to put in the time and effort to seek out comparisons. Some states require that school districts go through a competitive bidding process under at least some circumstances when issuing a bond.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the state Department of Education, hundreds of thousands of parents like Gobert are thought to be financially at-risk and should warrant help from the Child Care Assistance Program, the only state-administered initiative in Louisiana that assists low-income families to pay for care and education for children under the age of 4.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

Clay Shirky (Shirky, 2008) identified the rise in mass online collaboration, speculating that, in the future, such collaboration would extend from “knowing about” into “taking action.” There are (at least) six powerful motivations fueling learning socially. DO IT YOURSELF. ” He did not have long to wait.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2015

Clay Shirky (Shirky, 2008) identified the rise in mass online collaboration, speculating that, in the future, such collaboration would extend from “knowing about” into “taking action.” There are (at least) six powerful motivations fueling learning socially. DO IT YOURSELF. ” He did not have long to wait.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU’s Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. Federal funding for basic research—more than half of it conducted on university campuses like this one—has effectively declined since 2008, failing to keep pace with inflation. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This story about climate change and education was produced as part of the This story was produced as part of the nine-part series “Are We Ready? Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. ” This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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