Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). You may want to follow the embedded links in the previous paragraph to read this long-form piece of digital writing in a chronological order.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). You may want to follow the embedded links in the previous paragraph to read this long-form piece of digital writing in a chronological order.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. That’s an important step forward for this sector of the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

State officials at the highest levels have been aware of these problems for years and have repeatedly failed to fix them, according to internal documents. She had spent 12 years as a senior education advocate at the Disability Law & Advocacy Center of Tennessee, advising other parents on how to get through the system.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

What happened in our district should not have happened, but it did,” said John Brazeal, who joined the district as its chief financial officer in 2014. Why the district made these decisions is unclear — curiously, no documentation of the advice that led to these actions could be located by state auditors.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The training not only gave teachers the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, but also taught them how to pull documents from the archives to enhance and enrich their classroom materials. The previous social studies standards mentioned the phrase “civil rights” just three times in the 305-page document.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

From July 2010 through June 2014, Ohio State received a total of $1 million per year to run the program; in the 2014-15 fiscal year, funding dropped to $500,000. The clearinghouse was in the news recently when ProgressOhio, a liberal advocacy group, charged that officials of Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. (In Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. It was they who were defying the odds. That didn’t make Deas feel any better. She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of the lawmakers who demanded that the list be made public.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It was also one of the earliest education endeavors of serial entrepreneur Chris Whittle.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. For example, in 2014, interstate checks were added as a commonsense safeguard. Burr and then-Sen.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. I touched on this topic briefly in a previous article on online education.).

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