MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! With over 5 million students currently enrolled in Texas public schools alone , the Twitterverse is rich with insights from state educational leadership. Tony Bonazzi @GISDMath.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Changes in higher education enrollment can sound very bland or abstract. But I can sum up recent data and research more concretely. It’s peak higher education and increasing income inequality combined. It’s peak higher education and increasing income inequality combined.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A Note from Vicki: This post is in response to Cathy Rubin’s Global Search for education where she asks about the literacy skills required for a new world. Social media is social but it’s also serious.

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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. But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

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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 in 2014, the most recent federal data available. There’s a general consensus among education researchers that smaller classes are more effective. (In Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Me, I write about education technology for a living. And I do so because I want us — all of us — to flourish; and too often both education and technology are deeply complicit in exploitation and destruction instead. These are not good times for educational institutions. Not everywhere looks like Brandeis.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The network links educators across disciplines who are interested in using games and other forms of interactive teaching to improve student success. And participants are showing that gameplay is serious business: data from BMCC classes suggests that when students have fun learning they appear to have more meaningful learning experiences.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Simon , 1986).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Their positions were created by and are funded through Say Yes to Education Buffalo, a local chapter of a New York City-based nonprofit. In Buffalo, a Rust Belt city still grappling with high poverty and an under-educated population , the results of the Say Yes program have exceeded expectations. Because people just didn’t get along.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015, the most recent time period measured in federal data. Folks aren’t just asking for higher education to be supported because it’s a nice thing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

But Oakland is one of a growing number of districts trying to reconnect top administrators to the kids they serve as a way to help the critical middleman in education: the school principal. Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. Higher Education. When a behemoth like that moves into Pennsylvania looking to grab market share, analysts pay attention. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. Valor only runs secondary schools so we worked with its leadership team to adopt their work for our younger students. Five Most Critical Changes We Made. Teacher Roles. Physical Space.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan once said he wanted competency-based college programs like Western Governors University “ to be the norm ” rather than the exception. Also: What is a former consultant-turned-technology executive doing running one of the most-cited experiments in higher education?). Former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Common Sense Education created this essential guide to help your district or school address the key topics E-rate recipients need to teach students, including internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying. What are the educational requirements for compliance? E-rate is complicated. What if I get audited?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald. But he’s not surprised.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Schank agreed and he modified his theory in a way that accounted for the Stanford data and his new concerns about learning. This accounted for the psychologist’s data and enabled Schank to begin to build knowledge into the computer in such way that learning could take place. They argued that Schank’s scripts didn’t explain this.

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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 Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 8, 2021

I spent the first half of the summer working a lot — this is one of my primary busy seasons as an educational consultant — and we successfully kicked off another cohort of the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek program. Secondary teachers, you are going to especially love this, as I’ve got a bunch of high school teachers sharing ideas.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability. More important, the data entry can seem pointless when the outcomes aren’t applicable to the students. Launched in 2011, the SLDS-One Integrated Solution is more than a longitudinal data system.

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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. We think of it as common sense.”. Like the U.S., and the U.K.

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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. The figure is through 2018, the most recent year for which this data is available.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. You’ve got a region that’s poor.

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Education Industry Report Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

The federal government, in concert with the states and institutions, could do more to increase transparency and enhance market account- ability in higher education. More effectively reporting data that it already collects and collecting better data on cost, quality and value would provide a number of benefits.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). Who Owns Student Data? Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks. A 2015 regulation by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. The current Education Department study did not disclose what the funding gaps would have been without federal aid in 2014-15.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. But she wasn’t sure how she’d make it out of New Orleans until 2008, when she met a skinny white guy from Washington, D.C. Her uncle turned around in the front passenger seat.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

A majority of recessionary budget cuts to education have been restored. National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. See adjacent graph.).

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Elementary Report Policies Secondary 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

. Despite the gridlock that has become synonymous with the nation’s capital, in 2008 Washington, D.C., Here are three key lessons: Lesson 1: Access to early childhood education sets students on a strong learning path. Related: More charter schools mean fewer early education options, research finds. It’s that simple.

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Training Secondary Accessibility Analysis 82

Educator Innovator

JUNE 6, 2016

hosted by the National Writing Project, KQED and Educator Innovator partners—can productively bring the presidential election into classrooms to improve students’ argumentative writing and media literacy. Students also discover that multiple groups with differing views might use the same statistics, spinning data to support their argument.

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Secondary Strategy Social Media Analysis 51

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That would help return the United States to first in the world in the proportion of its population with the credentials needed to sustain an economy increasingly dependent on highly educated workers. At this rate, the target won’t be met until at least 2041 , the research arm of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, or ETS, predicts.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Right now, and into 2023, what I am learning/making/reading revolves around some of the usual topics of teaching, higher education, and technology. I've learned over the years how to find energy, purpose, balance, and satisfaction as a higher education professional, even through the worst of the pandemic and up to now.

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Social Media Twitter Case Study System 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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