The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Don Means ( @GigLibraries ) Director, Gigabit Libraries Network Don Means is founder and principal of Digital Village Associates, a Sausalito, CA based consultancy started in 1994 specializing in community technology policy and strategic planning for clients, large and small, public and private.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Don Means ( @GigLibraries ) Director, Gigabit Libraries Network Don Means is founder and principal of Digital Village Associates, a Sausalito, CA based consultancy started in 1994 specializing in community technology policy and strategic planning for clients, large and small, public and private.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Don Means ( @GigLibraries ) Director, Gigabit Libraries Network Don Means is founder and principal of Digital Village Associates, a Sausalito, CA based consultancy started in 1994 specializing in community technology policy and strategic planning for clients, large and small, public and private.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Languages, she said, are especially able to be adapted “to content in other fields — global health, environmental studies, public policy.”. The drop coincided with a policy that let students pick courses online over the summer. Americans have a puzzling relationship with second-language learning.

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APRIL 9, 2018

In all, about three-quarters of states have adopted some sort of policy to make transfer easier among community colleges and public universities, with varying success, the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is based at Teachers College.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

based nonprofit focused on an intergenerational approach to policy. The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years. . $4 billion — The amount the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It All of this research comes after nearly three decades of school policies that decreased recess time amidst fears that the unstructured time led to student fights or took time away from students’ focus on passing standardized tests.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. She dug deep into the results of the 2009 PISA test (administered to 15-year olds around the globe) because she was very curious to learn how the smartest kids in reading and math got to be that way.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. percent between 2009 and 2017. I have a law degree and a master’s in public policy studies. I have a law degree and a master’s in public policy studies. percent to 89.1

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. If you look at all the policy implementations, none of this has moved the needle. What may move the needle is moving from a reactive to a proactive model.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Indeed, a 2009 study published in the Journal of Criminal Justice showed that schools with school-based police officers have higher arrest rates for disorderly conduct than those without. These arrests can have dire consequences, suggests a 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. Currently, Amanda serves as President of NCTET.

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MAY 15, 2023

But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. The study followed 23,000 students beginning in 2009, when they were in the ninth grade. I can’t be mad that the opportunities are different, because it’s out of my control.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , the presenters discussed the policies and practices that also keep data safe in a digital education environment. Every stakeholder group needs to have a clear understanding of district policies and their role in implementing them.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

School management needs to take reasonable steps to ensure protection beyond data sharing policies. Dr. Gary Lilly, Superintendent at Bristol Tennessee City Schools in Tennessee since 2009, has been an educator for 24 years. Liability: Districts and school leaders can be held liable for network breaches.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Columbia University spokeswoman, Samantha Slater, pointed to $170 million in contributions the university had pledged to the community near its campuses starting in 2009, saying the investments “have been a model for similar investments by other universities.” “The Nevertheless, we feel the charitable status that derives from N.Y.U.’s

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

percent of veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 had graduated within six years, compared to 52.9 In all, the GI Bill — which costs $11 billion a year, according to the General Accounting Office — paid for all or part of 450,000 degrees earned by 340,000 students between 2009 and 2015, the study found.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

If the President-elect’s Tweet storms are any indication, education policies are in for an adventure next year. Rick Hess has observed, no one knows exactly how the new administration's campaign promises will play out, there are two policy areas that edtech decision-makers ought to pay extra attention to. School Choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin. The George W.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America. percent of the 853,111 veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 graduated within six years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Congress also made the Pell award more generous through three infusions of funding in 2007, 2009, and 2010. Marcella Bombardieri is a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a public policy research and advocacy organization. Related: Does the education budget reveal a ‘DeVos Doctrine?’.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

The State Policy Network has a plan to counter union activism with anti-union PR. “Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law ,” Techcrunch reports. .” Via The Washington Post : “ ICE is moving to deport a veteran after Mattis assured that would not happen.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In the fall of 2019, Courtney will begin her fourth and final year in the Educational Policy and Leadership doctoral program also through the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development. She joined AFS-USA in 2009 as Business Development Strategist. www.courtneysbellconsulting.com Ann C. Gaudino, Ed.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

President Barack Obama delivers a speech at Macomb County Community College July 14, 2009 in Warren, Michigan. Within a decade, he said on that day in 2009, community colleges like Macomb would collectively boost their number of graduates by five million. A decade later, progress has been slow. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

y the time Samara Rand started high school in 2009, the Mississippi Department of Education had labeled Holmes County Schools “at risk of failing.” The nonprofit advocacy group EdBuild’s recommendations to increase funding for students who are impoverished, have a disability or are learning English “made sense,” Wright added. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

A local teenage girl named Ty’sheoma Bethea wrote the president and members of Congress in February 2009, pleading for their help in replacing J.V. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Photo: Alan Richard. After he was elected, the town of Dillon stayed on Obama’s radar.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Having accurate graduation rates and alumni earnings information may help students, including those who are undocumented, find the right college, said Chad Marlow, advocacy and policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. But “the idea we have to check is, are these kids going to get a better education if they’re deported?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

.” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. The annual Gallup poll gauging the public’s confidence in public schools did reach its highest level this year since 2009.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. ” Trump might not have proposed any solutions, but he’s identified the problems: Setting up problems is the most important part of policy work. Spoiler alert : capitalism.

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