The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

It could also help stem the region’s brain drain and alleviate a teaching shortage that has forced the school to hire a growing number of career changers, she added. percent of its population between 2010 and 2019, Hazard grew by 13 percent. We have to give them access to quality healthcare.” Though Appalachian Kentucky lost 2.2

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math. Like a good STEM student, Mann started by doing his own research project. The next step was adding STEM electives. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers. The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said. Career exploration capitalizes on this innate drive, encouraging students to try on possible future selves, she said.

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techlearning

APRIL 11, 2018

(Waltham, MA) April 11, 2018 — KinderLab Robotics , the creators of KIBO™ , a robot kit designed to teach children ages 4–7 to build, program, decorate, and bring their own robot to life without requiring any screen-time, today announced its acceptance to STEMworks , an online honor roll of high-quality STEM education programs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

For Laurie York, who’s created 82 padlets since first using the tool in 2010, the initial response was “disappointment.” For Padlet, the issue stemmed from its over-generous “freemium” business model, where a company makes a portion of its offerings available for free, and offers advanced features for a fee.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2020

Founded in 2010 and formerly known as Tabtor, Thinkster offers subscriptions for its tutoring services, with packages that range from $80 a month to $2,088 a year. Students can access explainer videos for problems they don’t understand, even when not connected to the internet. The app is accessible on all devices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

Studying the successes of black women mathematicians opens a window into how we can produce more black STEM grads. However, just 2 percent of black women worked as scientists or engineers in 2010, according the National Science Foundation. Give them access to resources that can hone their skills,’’ said Jackson.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

And though interest in computer science education, and access to it, is growing, the report found that not enough students are taking high-quality computer science classes at the high school and university levels. Establish more STEM-intensive public charter high schools. The report found that just half of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Slated to open in two years, the Delgado West Bank Campus Advanced Technology Center will offer two-year and certificate programs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. In 2010, $1.8 Related: The late New Orleans chef Leah Chase was a teacher at heart.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Trisha Quan: I received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. In terms of what we're teaching in our education system, a lot of what I know about programming is self-taught, but I think that we could do a better job of making programming accessible. It was like water in my life.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

So Bryant signed her up for a game development camp at Stanford in 2010, only to learn that Kai was one of the few girls—and the only student of color—in the group. Then I want to track how many of our girls are enrolling in a two or four-year institution majoring in a STEM field. (It This gap in technology access still frustrates me.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Bear Cave has been around for 12 years, first opening its doors in a smaller unused classroom in 2010 before relocating to a bigger, unused shop room on campus in 2014. Yosemite’s principal, Nichole Horn, said the school’s staff knew their students were walking onto campus with “a lot of trauma.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

NJCTL has graduated 50 chemistry teachers and 217 physics teachers since 2010. The Camden City Schools ’ partnership with the NJCTL has increased the number of science teachers in the district, meaning more students have access to the courses.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

The national report, From Print to Pixel: The role of videos, games, animations and simulations within K-12 education , reveals that in 2010, only 23 percent of surveyed teachers said they used games, compared to 48 percent of those surveyed in 2015.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. Design Lab, Image Credit: NYSCI The fellowship inspired Tesoriero and Solarsh to start an elective STEM course for seventh graders at their school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

“Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in STEM careers. Research shows that spatial thinking is an important predictor of achievement in the STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Wai, Lubinski, & Benbow, 2009). Sometimes these are called “STEAM” to reflect the inclusion of the arts.

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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

My teacher specifically made the class hard, and she told my mom, ‘He should definitely look into something in the STEM majors.’”. But Lockett’s older brother had enrolled at LSU in 2010, liked the school, and was close to finishing his bachelor’s in electrical engineering when Lockett visited in the spring of 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. But on many campuses, learning a second language is treated simply as a box to check.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2010, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) was one of several sites to receive funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. But in the 19-branch system, only a fraction of CLP’s visitors and staff had access to the programming and equipment. and Catherine T.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Sam, 15, brandished the list of rules for the Cardboard Canoe STEM Lab. STEM is short for science, technology, engineering and math.) In addition to the college-level math classes and the STEM labs like this one, the students had been paintballing, hiking and out for fro-yo (twice). “If He had read them carefully.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Instead, they continued to decline, from a peak of 8,339 in 2010 to 4,081 last fall, according to government data. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. By 2015, the most recent year for which the figure is available, it owed $75.3 But student numbers didn’t rebound.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Pacific Oak and Saybrook colleges were both operating at deficits when they joined the alliance in 2010 and 2014, respectively, said Horowitz; they both now have growing enrollment, falling student-loan default rates, and financial surpluses, he said. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The researchers noted that children from traditionally marginalized groups have lower access to high-quality childcare and preschools, a circumstance that limits their learning opportunities prior to entering kindergarten.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. I suspect these absences stem from another issue, the book’s focus on traditional-age undergraduate education.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. I suspect these absences stem from another issue, the book’s focus on traditional-age undergraduate education.

Analysis 40

Analysis Trends Strategy MOOC 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992. About Discovery Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S. Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

I saw the gender divide in schools when I ran for Congress in 2010. When they get access to technology, they tend to ask: How can I use technology to make the world better? Since the time I was young, I've been an activist in this space, thinking about how do you create opportunity and equity? How do you fight against discrimination?

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Head & Eisenberg (2010) discussed college students’ habits of using Wikipedia in combination with other information resources and preference for its “mixture of coverage, currency, convenience, and comprehensibility in a world where credibility is less of a given or an expectation from today’s students.”. Retrieved from [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Members will have access to lab and office space, as well as a slew of lab equipment. Once downloaded, students will be able to access the "packs," even when they''re offline. The company is also lifting some of its "per-seat" licensing fees so that those not enrolled in classes aren''t charged for accessing the material.

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