The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. Related: Gifted classes may not help talented students move ahead faster.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2023

Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

Libraries 73

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 73

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. Schools also pay for the teacher-leaders differently. Some pull money from other parts of their school budgets to cover the supplemental salary.

Elementary 111

Elementary Advocacy Trends STEM 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2023

Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

Libraries 63

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 63

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A. The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.

Social Media 121

Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 121

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia. Example #1: An autistic student using VR. Example #2: VR and Beowulf. Example #3: A student designing fashion in VR. Example #4: Pam’s experience in VR with Field Trips.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. In 2013, PC Magazine reported that people between the ages of 18 to 24 are 16 percent more likely than any other demographic to have a cracked screen.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. One advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about this issue from September 2016 to December 2018, according to the complaint.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. Like Santiago, some frustrated parents are turning to private schools to serve their kids.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. 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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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. Participation in the school lunch program has remained a flat 52 percent of all U.S.

Data 90

Data Analysis Advocacy Policies 90

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., While many of the examples are about giving time or money, any of them can be expanded into larger efforts for substantive change. 2013 Article | The Arsenic in Our Drinking Water.

Advocacy 69

Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It A slow walk for example, does little to make anyone smarter. In Wisconsin, for example, the state education department oversees a program called Core 4+, which features inexpensive interventions to increase movement throughout the school day.

Exercises 106

Exercises Elementary Report Study 106

ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

George Veletsianos and Royce Kimmons (2013) define open scholarship as “any teaching and research practices that are public and that espouse openness” (p. Laura Gogia and Bonnie Stewart, for example, opened up their academic practice to the public by making the process of their thesis defenses transparent, as described here ).

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OER MOOC Conference Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. Some people need a hearing aid, for example; others require voice-activated note-taking software or screen-readers for college.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Training Software System 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.

Elementary 188

Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

Check out Orientation Inspiration (2013) and Orientation Attitude (2016). In a Seesaw Blog Ideas post , Alison Murphy shares several examples for using these games right out of the box or follow instructions to personaliz[ing] your own plan: Seesaw Go! This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Engagement. Gamification.

Libraries 54

Libraries Gamification iPhone Advocacy 54

The Hechinger Report

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. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Kaplan 142

Kaplan Policies Report System 142

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. By 2013, she transitioned back to her home state of New Jersey and taught 7th grade in a suburban school as a language arts and mathematics resource teacher for five years.

Classroom 36

Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Between 1970 and 2013, the percentage of Americans in the lowest income quartile who had a college degree by age 24 rose from 6 to 9 percent. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016.

E-rate 40

E-rate Training Advocacy Mobility 40

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?

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

She was the 2013 recipient of the National Coalition for Technology in Education & Training, NCTET Community Builder Award for exemplary service supporting policies and practices designed to facilitate effective technology integration into teaching and learning across the nation’s education system. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.

E-rate 42

E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new. for the nonprofit.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. “They completely made sense to me.” Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

Elementary 68

Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 68

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For example, instead of desks, consider a room with small discussion areas, whiteboard writing surfaces, and multiple teachers moving around the space engaging students in their lessons. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Technology 40

Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

About 40 percent of kids at Little Smiles Daycare, which Farias opened in 2013 and where she is the director, are on subsidies. Only about 14 percent of families eligible for the child care subsidies are actually enrolled in the program, according to a report from the First Five Years Fund, a child care and early learning advocacy group.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Policies System Groups 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In Rochester, for example, just 6.7 If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year. In Syracuse, 10.9 were proficient in math.

Common Core 40

Common Core Elementary Comparison Examples 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013. For example, internships, team projects and artistic creations could be used to demonstrate mastery in place of a pencil-and-paper tests. Key tenets of proficiency-based learning.

Education 0

Education Report System Course 0

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Some states’ figures are even higher. Even within a system, credits may not be accepted.

Course 68

Course Social Media Study Comparison 68

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. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Kaplan 41

Kaplan Learning Policies Report 41

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In 2013, attorneys at the California Innocence Project , weighed down by a backlog of casework, turned for help to an unusual group: humanities students at High Tech High Chula Vista, a nearby charter school. Mehta said the best examples he has seen during the school day are in science classes. By Greg Toppo. pullquote].

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How To Learning Advocacy Study 34

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

In Desert Sands, for example, they wanted to make sure all students could be connected no matter where they lived, but using different service providers—the typical solution—would prove costly over the years. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Innovation.

Advocacy 86

Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy 86

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Between 1989 and 2013, the percentage of students with disabilities who were in a general education class for 80 percent or more of the school day increased from about 32 percent to nearly 62 percent. She listened to a few descriptions of struggles and then reminded her students that part of their job is to be an example for other teachers.

Training 40

Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. In 2013-14, average per-pupil spending on public education in the U.S.

Elementary 145

Elementary Education Report Groups 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

From 2007 to 2013 the district’s taxpayers had approved several bonds, totaling more than $46.6 There are some circumstances in which a noncompetitive sale is the better option: when a district has a low credit rating and is unlikely to attract any bidders, for example, or when the bond deal is complex.

Report 75

Report Industry Company Conference 75