The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

What sets this study apart from previous evaluations of college access programs is that the French economists were able to set up a randomized controlled experiment back in 2010 and 2011 by working with principals in 12 French high schools serving underprivileged students. More than 550 students applied over two years.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. Previous expansion plans had been put on hold by a disappointing corporate learning product, activist investor interest and an acquisition that became messy at times.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

To that end, the Wallace Foundation spent $85 million on a five-year project to improve school principals in six cities and large urban counties, from New York to Denver, beginning in 2011. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The Wallace Foundation is also among the funders of the The Hechinger Report.) Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. However, as our country continues to wage war on an invisible enemy known as COVID-19, colleges are being challenged to rethink their persistence and retention strategies, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That’s up from 17 percent non-white teachers and 44 percent non-white students in 2011-12, the school year in the previous report. This seemingly small three percentage point increase represents a dramatic jump of roughly 150,000 more non-white teachers in the profession, from over 610,000 in 2011-12 to more than 760,000 in 2015-16.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2018

However, in comparison to students who graduated into the 2000 job market, the Class of 2018 still has economic challenges. percent rate in August 2011. The report, published by the Economic Policy Institute, examines the job outcomes for those between the ages of 21 and 24 with a bachelor’s degree. Among those challenges?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She said she wanted to learn if technology was a problem for younger students and commissioned data analysts at an outside research firm, the Learning Agency , to conduct this quantitative analysis. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

I do think there are lessons to be learned from what’s going on in Maine right now,” said Jerome Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. At UMaine, by comparison, the dean of engineering personally took her on a tour.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration). More common in 2010 and 2011, the early days of the current edtech investment cycle, those deals were prevalent at a time that saw an abundance of new ideas, companies and investments.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 11, 2016

The 2015 list was based on a comparison of applicants’ sales growth from 2011 to 2014.). Finnish Personalized Learning Platform Raises $4.6 Million: Helsinki-based Claned , a personalized learning platform, has raised approximately $4.6 Last year, Inc. Schoold Raises $4.5 million euros (approximately $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

For example, a child from a poor home whose mother works an overnight shift might need more one-on-one attention at school to learn to read. Beginning next year, a new federal law will require states to disclose spending per student at each school and we’ll learn even more about educational inequities in our communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

By comparison, the national four-year graduation rate for public universities is 37 percent.). One is a set of living learning communities that group students by their interests or common experiences. We absolutely plan to use the lessons learned at UMR and import them” to close achievement gaps, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

From 2011-12 to 2021-22, as suspensions for willful defiance fell from 4,500 to near zero, suspensions across all categories fell too, to 1,633, a more than 90 percent drop, according to state data. That’s incredibly valuable,” he said, “more valuable than learning photosynthesis.” Suspended for…what?

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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2017

In comparison to those numbers, 30,000 students isn’t so big after all. I then worked in another school district and I met the superintendent on day one because they welcomed and learned with all new teachers in an opening day session. Size is relative. The number might fluctuate, but the job and who you serve remains the same.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As an example, she pointed to the Accelerated Learning Program, or ALP, which she spearheaded in her role as a senior VA advisor under the Obama administration. The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Parents from both schools believe they learned how to share power and advocate together for greater change within a system that often rewards a vocal minority of white voters. “It It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Since 2011, I’ve been fortunate enough to work on a series of ARGs with several collaborators including Melissa Gilliam, Ashlyn Sparrow, Katherine Hayles, Patrick LeMieux, Sha Xin Wei, Peter McDonald, Ainsley Sutherland, and myriad students at the University of Chicago. AS: What were the biggest challenges you faced in getting started?

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In political classrooms, students learn how to discuss topics that have multiple, competing views, and practice listening and questioning. Then they compared the two types of teachers to see how they engaged students and what students learned. Best Practice Educators.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. In practice, this process is more complicated and sometimes relegates capable students into diluted settings, stunting their ability to not only learn in school but also to achieve later in life. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Felix Jacomino , the school’s Director of Technology, managed to lead a team that pulled off an incredible learning event. I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Learn about the many creative ways teachers can use Google Forms with their classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2017

A flurry of well-regarded universities were found in 2011 and 2012 to have provided faulty information about such things as students’ high school class standing and entrance test scores to U.S. The university uses a different source to report a salary outlook of $68,618 for an almost identical-sounding program. Education Department did.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Monica Grice started college in 2011 and will graduate from Texas State University in May. Most administrators will want to review a syllabus from your former school for comparison. At the University of Iowa, all resident freshmen must sign up for one of more than 25 living-learning communities. students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Stanton-Salazar (2011) describes “institutional agents” as non-kin, “high-status” individuals who can both increase motivation and access to resources. Educators interested in learning more could consult the Search Institute, which has identified and created tools for measuring social capital. But education just isn’t there yet.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Learning to code gave him a lens to explore other things in the world and it has made him more curious. Before participating in CodeNow, Robinson said he didn’t really like learning new things and didn’t have a lot of confidence in himself or his ability to learn. Now he’s at Syracuse University studying software engineering.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 percent of teachers in 2011-12, up from 3 percent in 1987-88, according to National Center for Education Statistics. The whole purpose of education is not just to learn about a new subject, but to find out about who you are, and what you want to do in life. “As

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. And admittedly I never learned about the Delphi method – what the New Media Consortium uses for this research project – until I became a scholar of education technology looking into the Horizon Report.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Students are hungry for learning that matters. Project based learning has students involved in explaining their answers to real-life questions or challenges. Instead of traditional projects that come at the end of a unit of study, project-based learning has the project introduced at the beginning of the unit.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

By comparison, per pupil sending in the United States tops $11,000.) That’s not enough money to reduce class sizes that frequently surpass 100, make sure every student has access to textbooks, or bring adequate mental health services to campuses to help students deal with trauma that so often gets in the way of learning. It spends $1.47

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Four year-olds at Beary Cherry Tree use magnetic blocks with instructor Fredericka Bellard, 24, to learn about counting, sorting and patterns. The 25-year-old single mom thinks her daughter would do well in an early-learning facility. Photo: Della Hasselle. But Gobert only makes $21,000 a year and cannot afford the cost.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Courtney Groskin are Learning Coaches with the Office of Professional Development in St. I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

See, what might be even more significant than how frequently (or infrequently) Americans learn about science news (or how well that science is explained) is how their personal beliefs influence whether or not they believe that science to be valid. ” Sites of indoctrination , not learning. “ Government schools.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). Who’s to blame that companies aren’t selling enough stuff to schools?

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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. Gaming stores often have great game nights for trying things out and learning complicated games. Board Games.

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