The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. 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. MANKATO, Minn. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. 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. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. A holistic approach to child development, education, and differentiated support – This is a chance to make classrooms developmentally conducive to learning. without really looking for the root cause of the issues. Noguera, Ph.D.,

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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.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

This has happened as Georgia officials – like those in many other states – are pushing to increase the number of young residents who have some kind of post-secondary education. Folks aren’t just asking for higher education to be supported because it’s a nice thing. It’s just a question of where we’re going to come up with money.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2016

Related: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi? A 2006 Justice Policy Institute report found that “detention has a profoundly negative impact on young people’s mental and physical well-being, their education and their employment.” Email her at sierra@jacksonfreepress.com.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. hours per week on science during the 2011-12 school year, the last for which data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Discovery Education’s Math Techbook has been approved as a core instructional resource across Oregon state. The Oregon State Board of Education has approved the Discovery Education Math Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its state adoption process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), 201–233; Headden, S. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report. K., & Bruegmann, E.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Photo: Kim Palmer for The Hechinger Report. Your kids will have a better life if they are educated. percent are literate and some 350,000 are not in school, according to Educate Girls, a nonprofit aimed at getting more rural girls into classrooms. Related: India’s push to better educate its girls. No one will cheat you.”.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. Since the school opened, more than 500 PGA students have used Fuel Education curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Co-sponsored by Aramark, VALIC and AASA, the 2016 National Superintendent of the Year will be announced at AASA’s National Conference on Education , Feb. Williamson has more than 30 years of service in public education, with the past nine years as superintendent of Hoke County Schools. 11-13, 2016, in Phoenix, Ariz.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment increased from 2,000 students in 2009 to 34,000 by 2014 and continues to climb.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Hoeksema, & Schouten, 2009). 2014; Spear, 2009). Offering some nondisciplinary means for this process in secondary education settings could help adolescents develop better self-?regulation

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

These things “just reminded me of what I already knew about the politics of education and the lack of resources in low-income communities when it comes to schools,” said Ben, now 22 and about to graduate and go back to Chicago to teach while pursuing a master’s degree. Black college and university enrollment has been dropping steadily.

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MindShift

JUNE 28, 2016

We knew that one-third of students were graduating from the Knox County school system and not pursuing any kind of post-secondary education directly following high school,” she said. For us, this was about being a conduit between the program and the students, someone who could be, for lack of a better phrase, pulling for the student.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We’ve saved $500,000 per year in electricity through conservation compared to 2009,” she said. Efficiency upgrades covered by federal grants can include insulation and upgraded windows, as well as new HVAC systems, which can be covered under American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. percent in 2009 to 87.9 Wolfe, associate vice president of Jobs for the Future, a Boston-based nonprofit that helps educators and school districts adopt student-centered learning. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. percent in 2009 to 87.9 REVERE, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, who is native herself, launched the state’s Schools of Promise grant program in 2009. If we’re going to achieve equity in education we need to look at ways that we may provide more resources to certain areas than others.”. But his more recent ancestors were not educated here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!

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Waterford

DECEMBER 3, 2019

6] Millennials are no longer elementary or secondary students themselves, though they may still be students in college or graduate school. They expect technology to be integrated into educational communication and use it on a more regular basis.[3]. The Public Manager, 2009, 38(4), pp. Contreras, C. Childs, R. Granados, N.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Global Collaboration Week is a series of free online education events taking place during the week of September 23 - 27, 2019. During this week (and beyond), experienced global educators and other professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. A current listing of events you can join is below.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality? They sometimes only focus on social media or TV.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? By Franklin Schargel. What grade levels are most affected?

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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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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. I have written quite a bit about the problems (as I see them) with the Horizon Report, most recently in a talk I gave last fall at VCU: “ The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education at the University of Kansas Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a professor in Educational Leadership at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. Yong Zhao, Ph.D

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Credit: Katie Cotterill for The Hechinger Report. She took calls from the local newspaper and radio station, telling reporters, “We’re holding out hope.”. A former special education teacher who grew up in Oregon, Grant rarely considers a problem without mentioning how it affects students.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. Then came the anti-CRT movement Andy Rotherham, who was appointed to the state board of education in 2022 by Youngkin, said the outcome of the social studies debate shows that people can get past politics to a good result.

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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. 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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