eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Despite years of work by some educators and advocates to increase equity in career and technical education, deep disparities remain. It shows that we have a lot of work to do,” said Alisha Hyslop, senior director of public policy for the nonprofit Association for Career and Technical Education. Or lack of transportation?”.

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Waterford

MARCH 26, 2021

How involved caregivers are with a child’s education is the major factor in academic achievement. But it can be difficult for families to be active in their child’s education if those families can’t get their basic needs met. But also, a child’s education and development have a positive effect on families.[6]

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Iowa’s STEM Teaching Endorsement Partnership – Higher Education Plan , Jeff Weld & Kris Kilibarda. Lunch and STEM Education Awards for Inspired Teaching , Gov. STEM Education Award for Inspired Teaching video. What’s missing?

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , during 2013–2015, 3.9 Many didn’t have proper internet access or even a tablet or other device with which to get online. percent of boys and 4.3 percent of girls missed more than 10 school days in 12 months because of illness or injury.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in the traditional education model, there was widespread recognition that schools alone could not do everything needed to provide an equitable education for diverse students because so many factors that determine students’ success were being affected or determined outside of school.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. Instead, said Duchesneau, educators and staff need to recognize cultural and contextual differences and how they impact students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2023

“My teacher kind of pulled me aside and was like, ‘Hey, you need to go to your guidance counselor, there’s a little bit of complications with signing you up for this class,’” said Maqueo Toledo, who is now a college access fellow at the Education Trust in Tennessee. citizenship was required. recently ineligible.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. Promise increased access for first-generation, low-income, academically unprepared minority students,” she says. “So Free For Whom?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. ” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. On November 22, 1996, U.S. House of Representatives or Senate.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Not so fast, say education publishers and retailers. Instead, educators asked how quickly it could print out materials. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. billion by 2023.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 17, 2016

Department of Education will not penalize Nevada for failing to meet federal test-participation requirements , according to the Associated Press, after technical problems plagued the state’s administration of the Smarter Balanced test in the 2014-15 school year. By Guest Blogger Andrew Ujifusa. Cross posted from the Politics K-12 blog.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Refined through extensive beta testing, the new portal is designed to be more personalized and intuitive for the students and educators who use it. As we talked with EmpowerU students, we realized how much they valued the daily support of their EmpowerU coach—and they wanted an integrated way to access their feedback and encouragement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts. After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Mississippi graduated only 155 computer science majors in 2015, but the number who wanted to go into teaching was even lower. Subscribe today!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

This month’s election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

He needed the educators to incorporate his platform as part of their class. “If Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji. Origins in Jordan Arbaji’s decision to start an education company is rooted in how education shaped his own life. But that doesn’t work.” It opened doors.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

A foreign language teacher, Lisa Toivonen, has tried to fill in the gap by putting on events to encourage students to consider higher education, but Toivonen’s time and expertise are limited. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

November's election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

November's election surfaced the angry divide between urban and rural America, and education is one of these tension points. Ashmore is only one example of a rural town where the summer learning loss issue is very real.The Brookings Institute recently stated, “Rural schools are America’s forgotten educational institutions.”

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Advocates claim that the calculators provide students access to more powerful mathematics. As mathematics educators, we think the graphing calculator transformed American classrooms for the better. Math educators often talk about two kinds of understanding. Many have the ability to do statistical analysis and even some calculus.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Certificates are the fastest-growing kind of credential in higher education, touted as solutions for the growing number of people who want workforce training fast and don’t have time for a degree. The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“The completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid … is strongly associated with post-secondary enrollment,” Yarber read from the proclamation. “We just want to educate Mississippi, whether it’s a certificate or a PhD,” Knaus said. But only 42.8 Email sierra@jacksonfreepress.com.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 12, 2015

Before the Internet, educational materials were printed, making them scarce resources. Scarcity was a defining attribute of educational resources. Since the Internet, educational materials have become digital, making them abundant resources. See The Access Compromise and the 5th R.). Is the textbook market a bubble?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, 3.9 Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Department of Education’s College Scorecard that shows 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Department of Education’s College Scorecard that shows 3.9

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious. The advice is free.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

In order to address education equity, administrators must first recognize the common barriers. Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. I think for the last 20 years,” said Pedro A.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Jeff sits down with Jon Roepke to discuss the 2015 line up of products from Belkin. While the majority of companies in the education hardware tech space focus on one particular area, Belkin looks at a classroom trying to integrate technology and asks the question – how could we make this easier for the teachers and students?

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 26, 2019

With more than 4 billion users now connected to the internet, 50% of the global population (Forbes, December 2018), it is not surprising that the education sector has embraced devices and software to interact, engage, and enhance the learning environment for students. EdTech is not unique in this trend of bigger, but less frequent, deals.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 25, 2015

Free K-2 Earth Environmental Education Curriculum Now Available. The Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation, a leading non-profit provider of environmental education for primary and secondary schools, is making its award-winning curriculum available free online. About Think Earth Education Foundation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

New report offers policy recommendations to sustain momentum for computer science education. schools should make every effort to expand computer science education to keep up with workforce demands, according to a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Teach computer science in all high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. It wasn’t for a lack of effort from educators who wanted to tackle the problem.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 13, 2016

It’s a little one, crammed with information and ideas, and available in paperback: Gearing Up for Learning Beyond K–12 (Solution Tree Press, 2015). It’s also a snapshot of my thinking about the medium-term future of higher education, very accessible for any reader.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This is an important positive trend, and now we have an opportunity to build on this success to ensure high school graduates are also academically prepared for post-secondary education beyond high school. Latino students have high post-secondary aspirations.”. Related: More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

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