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MAY 1, 2021

When I began in 2012, Raven had an ELL population of less than 5 percent. For example, my ELL student who lit the trash can on fire witnessed his father’s murder. Suzanne was awarded the National PTA’s Life Achievement Award in May 2007, the highest honor from the nation’s largest child advocacy organization. affiliate].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

Take an all-too-typical example: Faculty member assigns student to write a two page compare and contrast essay. This example assumes physical paper, but the principles are exactly the same in the context of assessments submitted, graded, and returned electronically.). Student writes the paper and submits it to faculty. If so, how?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Some people need a hearing aid, for example; others require voice-activated note-taking software or screen-readers for college. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here’s another hint: they haven’t created a new open textbook since 2012. Effective Advocacy. If you’ve been following along, there are already some interesting examples of approaches like these in the K-12 space (c.f., Here’s a hint: they’ve produced more than double the number of books created by the next largest producer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. When schools reopen, they might do so with a different schedule: four days a week of in-person education and one virtual day, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He was named Maryland State Teacher of the Year in 2012. Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. One example of this is that my school implemented tiered warm-ups where there are three different levels in each question.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Flat World Knowledge began publishing “open textbooks” in 2007, and Connexions at Rice changed their name to OpenStax and started publishing open textbooks in 2012. For example, both the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and Lumen Learning use OER this way. 2016; Koedinger, et al.,

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. For example, internships, team projects and artistic creations could be used to demonstrate mastery in place of a pencil-and-paper tests. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. One four-year college within the City University of New York, for example, may not accept credits toward a major from another. Some states’ figures are even higher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whole language was big in the 1920s, for example, as progressive education became influential. In 2012 when the public schools in Baltimore County refused to give the Gibson children IEPs, Rob and Maggie decided to hire a lawyer. ” Pam Guest, for example, did not have the financial means to send her son Dayne to private school.

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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. Mike Flom, a parent and co-founder of the advocacy group New Jersey Parents and Teachers for Appropriate Education, said many factors impact inclusion’s effectiveness. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

The cuts endanger the school’s unique mission of equipping its students with the language skills and self-advocacy that enriches their Deaf identity, the school’s administrators and teachers say. Superintendent Dr. Sandra Edwards says she would like to see it replaced with carpet. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Manufacturing Trends.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, the pandemic and forced distance learning have impacted social-emotional learning for many children. Prior to joining Leander ISD, Dr. Gearing served as Superintendent of Dripping Springs ISD from 2012-2019 and as Superintendent of Marshall ISD from 2009–2012. However, it’s about the right data in the right hands.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It’s like things that I never had access to and now I had access to, for example, retirement planning. Candy Marshall, president of the scholarship and advocacy group TheDream.US., Since the Obama Administration created DACA in 2012, more than 825,000 undocumented immigrants have successfully applied for the protection.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

At Maury County Public Schools (TN), for example, families can check out WiFi-enabled devices for two weeks at a time. Ann also attended the 2014 White House Connected Superintendents Summit and was named a 2012-2013 NSBA Technology Leadership Network 20 to Watch Educator. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. Students who are learning English, for example, bring an extra 12 to 55 cents on the dollar. Elissa Stein, former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

To counteract these realities, Román-Lagunas said her staff members have been analyzing Latinx students’ data — majors, feeder high schools and retention rates, for example — to see where they can make a difference. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

For example, while Linson’s district avoided grants for most of their initiative, they knew that many teachers would need assistance using the new digital tools. For example, his district decided to stop hosting the tech applications on site and moved them to the cloud. In addition, they’ve transitioned to ebooks to save more dollars.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 51

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The point of the public program, as it was presented to voters in 2012, is to boost long-term educational outcomes and eventually improve the citywide workforce. For example, a family of four making $50,000 per year pays $1,000 per year per student. Others who qualify are in foster care or homeless. That’s exactly what she did.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Her daughter, Hannah, is on the autism spectrum and graduated from high school in 2012. More advocacy.”. More paperwork.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Students like Moises and Lina, for example, wouldn’t be eligible under the Cuomo proposal. We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 17, 2019

Eric Sheninger I remember back in 2012 when we began to implement blended learning strategies at my former high school. A great deal has changed since 2012 when it comes to blended learning. For example, many quality blended activities allow students a certain level of choice over their learning path.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Systemic failures allowed special needs students to not receive services, led to severe reductions in black teachers from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 2012 , in a city that’s 63 percent black, and inconsistent delivery of basic services like transportation, not to mention over-the-top disciplinary practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

By 2012, about 1.8 In Massachu­setts, for example, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education lists and links to all private and parochial schools in the commonwealth. No doubt other alternatives to traditional public education, such as charter schools, have encoun­tered some of these same impediments. million, or 3.4

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s.

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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. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The odds of a GI Bill recipient graduating from San Diego Mesa College, just eight miles away, for example, are one in 100, these most recent available data reveal. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015. Things do not appear to be improving.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

A rule that took effect in California in July, for example, gives priority course registration at public universities and colleges to student-parents, who often need more scheduling flexibility than their classmates. They weren’t allowed to bring their kids to campus, for example. “I That’s a decline of 291 institutions, or 26 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director, Center for Responsible Lending. The high default rates and low repayment rates — they factor that in as the cost of doing business, and the students are the ones who lose out,” said Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director for the Center for Responsible Lending. Hidden Debt Trap.

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Advocacy Company Report Policies 118