The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ” Source: OECD.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

One of the peculiar things about higher education is that it runs in the opposite direction of the economy. The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it. Ironically, funding for education plummeted.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2018

In 2009, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invested hundreds of millions to see whether “ value-added ” models could be used to evaluate, inform and improve teachers’ effectiveness in improving student outcomes. The most valuable thing it learned may have come from a report offering a blunt answer: no. It’s not a new approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

But white leaders have tried to restrict our education for centuries. Related: While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own And the Black community has always found ways to deliver the education our children deserve. We can and will ensure they have all the access to Kimberlé W.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LOS ANGELES — Citrus College was Kyshawna Johnson’s third attempt at higher education. Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report But before dropping out a third time, Johnson connected with Jovenes Inc., Nationally, reports indicate that 20 to 40 percent of youth aging out of foster care lack stable housing.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 31, 2019

That it works so well should come as no surprise to seasoned educators. Teachers often report that increased attentiveness and engagement are the top benefits of teaching with interactive display technology. This motivating impact of interactive displays is seen at every level of education. Moving up to higher education.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nation is in the initial stages of “higher education-massification” according to recent reports. India is closer than ever in reaching a Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of 30% in higher education. Higher education systems are described as universal when the GER is above 50%, the report notes. in 2014-15 to 26.3

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Students’ race and ethnicity affect their chances of earning a college degree, according to several new reports on higher education released in January and February 2023. The pie charts below were produced in January by the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that provides data reporting services to colleges.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Two of the fastest growing and most highly valued education technology companies are going down the alphabet as they raise subsequent rounds at higher and higher valuations. Udemy, which offers an online marketplace where anyone can access, create and sell video courses, has turned its focus on the corporate learning market this year.

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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. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C. New Way of Thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

Credit: John O'Boyle for The Hechinger Report. Among the most alarming stories have been reports showing a decrease in overall college enrollment and a much steeper decline in community college enrollment. Related: Is California saving higher education? Higher education can improve students’ lives in profound ways.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Source: California Department of Education. Department of Education data. Students who cannot read at grade level by the end of third grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to drop out of high school, according to the Department of Education. Note: Figures include charter schools. percent) in 2021-22.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

With educator quality as the most powerful in-school factor that contributes to students’ academic success, an essential component to supporting student recovery in the wake of pandemic-related learning loss must be ensuring all students have access to effective teachers and administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

“Even after accounting for all these other factors, we still see evidence of grade inflation,” said Edgar Sanchez, a researcher at ACT who presented his study in April 2022 at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11 In a study of actual U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling. Let’s take a look! 3D learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Today’s educational paradigm is no longer one of knowledge transfer but one of knowledge creation and curation. Design can empower learning in amazing ways. Zhao, H., &

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

Map: National Center for Education Statistics, Status of Education in Rural America, Exhibit C. They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. According to the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. registered apprenticeship programs grew 73 percent between 2009 and 2019. Still, companies report that they can’t fill open IT positions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

With this new partnership, K-12 educators from the district office to the classroom teacher can seamlessly record and share video messages using ParentSquare and MyVRSpot to engage families with their communications. Completely web-based, this feature requires no special hardware, and was designed specifically for education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. The Hechinger Report reached out to 28 selective institutions with higher acceptance rates for men; 25 declined or did not reply to requests for interviews. “It

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

After America’s school systems were unexpectedly disrupted during the pandemic, teachers immediately began serving as the education system’s de facto front-line workers and first responders. During the pandemic, educators made Herculean efforts to support their students. Parents had to become educators and service providers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2022

Credit: Mike Rundle for The Hechinger Report. On college campuses nationwide, the number of students seeking services increased by an average of 30 percent between 2009 and 2015 — more than five times the average rate of enrollment growth — and has continued to climb since then. Access to health care is not equitable in this country.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I work in K-12 education in the U.S., and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** K-12 context, including issues of accessibility , the copyright that should get assigned to teacher-created materials , and interoperability gaps and needs. I have a confession to make. Image credits.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

But many of the industries needed to complete this work are already struggling to find skilled labor — despite relatively high salaries and comparatively good benefits — in a nation that has put more emphasis on bachelor’s degrees than vocational education. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. But this year it expanded one of the classes, based on a curriculum from the nonprofit Education Opens Doors, to every middle school in the district. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. Stephanie Simpson, CEO of the Association for Middle Level Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. Rachel Aaker, who has spent most of her career in elementary education, said she noticed significant improvement in the performance and social confidence of many students who attended SpaRRk Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

What this whole crisis has done to higher education is just exposed the cracks that have been there for over a decade of financial mismanagement.” American higher education is composed of thousands of colleges and universities, with different track records and results. It’s the previous budgets that weren’t done correctly.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Credit: Gail Robinson for The Hechinger Report. For almost a decade, even young kids here have spent hours a day on screens as Mineola’s educators sought to transform schooling here. Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. First graders work on a coding assignment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. The number who went on to higher education inched up, to 57 percent from 56 percent. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

could learn a lot about early education from our international counterparts. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive, multi-year study of six early education systems that are beating the U.S. The Hechinger Report is an independently funded unit of Teachers College.) Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Country Rankings. PISA Medium.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. He declined to disclose the value of the deal, but said the price reported by The Globe and Mail—under $30 million—is in the ballpark. billion in 2018.

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