The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. A 2012 survey found 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex.” Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

But these are secondary causes. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. Here are some factors leading to the increase in textbook prices: 1.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. adults when compared with results from previous adult surveys.”. For more information on PIAAC’s 2013 release of adult skills data, click here. The PIAAC results speak directly to this. .”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

While our national discussion has reached relative consensus about the dual threat that tuition costs and student debt pose to college access, new approaches — at the policy and institutional level — remind us that creative solutions can drive meaningful improvement in post-secondary attainment.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Innovative models of education are not just limited to primary and secondary education, they are also scattered throughout higher education. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2013. Excerpted from “ Schools on Trial: How Creativity and Freedom Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice ” by NIkhil Goyal.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. Related: States are slow to adopt controversial science standards (published in 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The socialist candidate for president who made it a centerpiece of her campaign in 2013, Michelle Bachelet, won by a two-to-one margin; the Chilean congress passed it by a vote of 92-2; and the conservative who succeeded Bachelet has continued the policy. So transport is important. And] you have to eat.”. Elissa Nadworny.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 29, 2015

Many schools will share statistics regarding how many of their students go on to post-secondary, but if a student has a college degree but is unhappy, compared to a student that didn’t go to college and is, do we deem that a success? But then there is the word “success” What does being successful mean?

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Reflecting on the strength of this relationship, others have noted that “spatial instruction will have a two-for-one effect” that yields benefits in mathematics as well as the spatial domain (Verdine, Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, & Newcombe, 2013, p. Spatial reasoning is currently an underserved area of mathematics instruction.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When I started working for the district in 2013, I made $47K as a new teacher. Today, that number is estimated to be as high as 50%, if not higher, according to a 2021 national survey conducted by the Teacher Salary Project. I have always held at LEAST one second job since I started teaching in 2013.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Goodwill Denver Youth Career Development Program: provides low-income and at-risk youth the skills and opportunities necessary to graduate, pursue post-secondary education and training, and lead lives of self-sufficiency. Amy Anderson has been leading ReSchool Colorado as its Director since the launch of the initiative in 2013. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

In 2013, the Legislature passed a landmark education reform that offered students flexible pathways to graduation and more dual-enrollment options so they could earn credits toward college while in high school, and required the implementation of personalized learning plans for every student. percent to 89.1 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012. Possibly as a result, the average first- through fourth-grade student spent just 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). But scores dipped in almost all grades and subject areas on the 2015 test compared with 2013.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 5, 2014

“When they choose the text, when they care about it, they actually fix their own comprehension problems more than two times as often as when they don’t care about the text,” Steinkuehler told Edutopia in this 2013 video. Steinkuehler’s research is inspiring teachers to bring games into the classroom.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Like the university professor on the study’s advisory panel, in the higher education sample, students highly valued Wikipedia, considering it a reliable old friend for its ability to get them up to speed on an unfamiliar topic and for its references to both primary and secondary sources. Retrieved from [link]. Head, A., & Eisenberg, M.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

Highlighted Recordings Michael Furdyk from the Global Education Conference 2013 - on "Imagining Future Friendly Schools" [link] Esther Wojcicki from the Learning 2.0 Survey: Games and gender-related attitudes. Thanks, Karen! Readers everywhere will appreciate these practical tips.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to a survey college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (i.e., Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools. Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, 27(3), pp. Why integrate art into your school—particularly math and science—curriculum? Retrieved from arts.gov: [link]. Coopersmith, J.,

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

But the presenters said they really value surveys, especially the comments section, where they can get more nuanced insights into how the technology is working—or not—for the students and families. Gather qualitative and quantitative data. Most important, remember that your budget may not be able to cover everything.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

But only 27 percent of districts surveyed in 2013 report a state law about how to group these students, whether in a self-contained program, or pulled out into a resource room for a single subject or offered differentiation within a classroom. “That’s huge.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

For example, as reported in Education Week, California lost 53 percent of its school of education enrollment between the 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 school years. Large states have been particularly hard hit, raising concerns about the supply of new teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

In a campus climate survey , fewer than half of nonwhite students and faculty said they were “comfortable” at Salem State. From 2013 to 2015, the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students at Salem State averaged 1.5 Racist and anti-immigrant graffiti has appeared on the campus baseball diamond and bike path.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. 11 states introduced bills modeled on language from the ACLU.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Those philosophies bump up hard against the reality that 57 percent of Idaho children under age six live with parents who work elsewhere during the day, according to Kids Count , a national survey. Finally, advocates did a survey to determine how many children were actually staying home with their mothers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” You can learn anything online, Siegler argued.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

He pointed to a survey that found teachers in Republican counties and states are less likely to teach the scientific consensus on global warming — regardless of the educator’s politics. Inspiration for these squadrons sprang from a 1946 study surveying 10,000 Americans, according to the 1990 API history.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

And of the 1,200 people attending the summit, half the speakers and a third of attendees were black or Latino, up from 12 percent in 2013. Even so, the statistics are still horrifying: In 2013-14, nearly three million students were suspended from school. Forty more schools are slated to open this fall or in 2018.

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