The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, according to federal data , whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. What happened between 2009 and 2018?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He started a venture capital firm in 2009 based in Beijing called Sinoventures. Not in terms of the science-fiction robot overlords. Now, some parents will start to worry, say, "Wait a minute, I don't want my kids captured on video all the time." Originally from Taiwan, he came the U.S. Why do you think that’s going to happen?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This graph comes from an article in the online publication Vox that includes a couple of those darling made-to-go-viral videos of young children using “old” technologies like rotary phones and portable cassette players – highly clickable, highly sharable stuff. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. It is not.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. After what was probably a thirteen-year hiatus, I’ve gotten back into video games this year. Board Games.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. “As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges,” Edsurge reported in June. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2009, Hispanic students made up 46 percent of the student body but just 26 percent of gifted students, according to federal data , whereas white students were about 20 points in the opposite direction, comprising 38 percent of the district but 57 percent of gifted students. What happened between 2009 and 2018?

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**. Not to mention robots, which we can’t carry, but are portable on their own terms. You’d like to show me a presentation or video. Russians sport video dashcams, and Americans are seriously thinking about requiring cops to carry recorders.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. The George W.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? ” Via The Hechinger Report : “High-income kids seem to benefit more from educational videos more than low-income kids, study shows.” Not so fast, suggest investors.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”? And even if those photographs were somehow misleading, the 1.5

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