The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

The Hechinger Report visited schools in India recently and talked to experts about blended learning – which includes an element of online learning with in-class instruction – and the potential it has for helping both teachers and students in the world’s second-most populous country. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, briefs President Barack Obama for an interview in the Oval Office July 22, 2009. For them, she needs a more balanced message around resources, technology, distance learning, personalized learning and teacher quality. Department of Education (2009-2012). appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. ” This story also appeared in The Huffington Post. Are We Ready?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The backup in Milwaukee is so severe that it is not uncommon for people to wait six weeks to get a first appointment to begin the eligibility process, said Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. “I Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Go behind the story: Listen to an interview with reporter Emily Tate about her visit to a school working to teach some of the youngest victims of the opioid crisis. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. Alexa Bihner, Ryder’s mother, first noticed these symptoms in her son in late 2018.

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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. The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. I see it as imperative for both genders to thrive, not just survive, in the global, knowledge-based, information/technology-driven world they’ll live and work in together as adults. Scholastic’s 2015 Kids & Family Reading Report confirms Ms. So, What About Girls?

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. National) Education Politics. The seller: Book Dog Books.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin had the lowest ratings possible for achievement and improvement on its state report card that year. The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. told The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 A 2009 study concluded that no one explicitly shows teachers how to teach to “different needs.” Maybe not: What two new reports show about teacher preparation. Educators say little has changed since then.

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