Doug Levin

AUGUST 17, 2017

I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons, including sloppiness in reporting, bias, and lack of relevance to education policy and practice considerations.

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Digital Learning Learning Outcomes Equity of Access 186

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

While remote learning may be ending in most places across the country, many students will continue to struggle to complete many lessons and assignments because they lack adequate internet service and access to devices at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.”. There are some positive findings in the survey.

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

The study, which was published late last year in Education Sciences and released more widely last week, found that children who attended Tulsa’s Educare program, all of whom live below the poverty line, experienced positive effects that lasted well into elementary school. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Outcomes Study Groups Report 98

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”.

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

We actually had to learn about the frogs,” said Jerry Vasquez, who started with the project when he was a sophomore in 2015. “We A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. A student at the St.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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Elementary EdTech Case Study iPad 76

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

So says the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is issuing a challenge to developers and service providers working to make the subject more broadly accessible. Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.”

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Study Report Course Accessibility 160

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Supporting this notion, a research study out of the University of Salford Manchester (UK), followed 3,766 students in 153 elementary classrooms from 27 different schools over a three-year period, analyzing classroom design elements along the way. There is also a free ASCD study guide aligned to the book that can be accessed HERE.

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Learning Steelcase Study Outcomes 311

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. The report cites federal statistics showing that 44 states and Washington, D.C. Teacher Shortage.

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Study STEM Meeting Report 197

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. You’re looking at progress reports, gradebooks and even lesson plans to offer the tiers of support that teachers need to drive that instruction home.

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Data Elementary Classroom Professional Learning 200

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Donna Araujo has run a child care program out of her home for 20 years. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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How To Report Accessibility Policies 145

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., Leijten, P.,

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Schargel was selected as one of the top 30 Educational Gurus for 2015.

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Dropout Smartphone Tablets Report 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Iturralde tries to make the book more accessible first. Credit: John Walker/The Fresno Bee.

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Elementary Report Training Groups 77

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The findings provide further evidence of a trend identified last year by a Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis of data gathered from 40 states that revealed a racial divide in career and technical education, or CTE. “It Previously, the Department of Education only reported enrollment in CTE career areas by gender.

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STEM Education Data Course 138

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The video’s simplicity and accessibility is the point for ReadyRosie, which offers parents ways to turn a chore like putting away groceries into vocabulary practice. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012. It’s smooth and in the pantry,” the boy says slowly. she asks. “Uh-huh,”

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Strategy Video Company Smartphone 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Although Mississippi has not adopted online preschool programs to the same extent as other states, during the 2015-16 school year, a group of children in Mississippi participated in a pilot program of the UPSTART kindergarten-readiness program.

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Accessibility Dropout Elementary Trends 44

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

A state law prohibiting willful defiance suspensions for grades K-3 went into effect in 2015; five years later, the ban was extended through eighth grade. A Hechinger Report investigation reveals that the national picture is quite different. That amounted to nearly a third of all punishments reported by those states.

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Report Data Training Policies 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Credit: Jena Brooker for The Hechinger Report. In a survey , since the start of the pandemic, 50 percent of students reported worsened mental health, 35 percent said their family relationships were worse and a majority reported feeling “lonely” and “anxious.” Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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Classroom Exercises Survey Elementary 145

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2021

CHICAGO, IL – Today, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning ( CASEL ) published an updated edition of its most frequently accessed resource, The CASEL Guide to Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs, commonly known as the CASEL Program Guide ( [link] ). Michigan Model for Health: Elementary.

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Learning Elementary Meeting Policies 73

Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

6] Students who are characterized as “difficult” or “bad-mannered” may be overwhelmed with toxic stress and unable to access the support they need because of the way others view them. In fact, one-fifth of all children report that they worry a lot.[14] Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015, 100(9), pp. and Schonert-Reichl, K.A.

Classroom 239

Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Accessibility to computing power is no longer constrained by time and place. School Computer Labs Ensure Equitable Access. Forty-one percent (41%) of high school students lack access to a non-shared in-school device. In middle schools, 37% of the students lack individual 1:1 device access. Collaboration zones.

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Laptops Libraries STEM Chromebook 179

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

Ed tech can help students develop critical social and emotional skills and character traits, but the market for such tools is currently underdeveloped, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group. to encourage turn-taking), encouraging students to adopt different perspectives (e.g.,

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Report Learning Trends Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In 1983, a landmark federal report, A Nation at Risk , pointed to declines over time in SAT scores and the U.S.’s The report touched off a movement toward standards-based accountability: holding school districts, schools and even teachers accountable for the academic performance of their students.

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Assessment Report Resources Tools 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the winter of 2015, the TAC visited our own schools. However, they also saw limitations such as inconsistent wi-fi and minimal access to devices.

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Elementary Personalized Learning Comparison Technology 82

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

What ensued instead was a costly debacle, and, in its wake, a fledgling, problematic recovery, described in a new report released September 2. Unified School District, including limited classroom use of iPads and other computers, inadequate support for teachers and partial or inconsistent access to the internet.

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iPad Report Pearson Digital Citizenship 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network. Oliver Robinson.

Learning 141

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Data from Speak Up 2015 National Findings show that 54% of students use YouTube all the time, and almost 40% of them are finding online videos to help with their homework. The same report gathered data on teachers’ use of videos in their classes.

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million program in 2015 that allows local schools to set their own rules or reimburse teachers who buy their own supplies. Green had access to extra technology around her house to hack together her remote workstation. The post Teachers forced to “MacGyver” their own tech solutions appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Laptops Tablets Analysis Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 142

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Middle and high school students and adult learners also have access to the program outside of the classroom to study at their own pace. Rosetta Stone is being made available to middle school students looking to get early exposure to a new language, and eighth-graders can access the program for high school credit.

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System Accessibility Study Resources 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Laila Webb, 5 and Reezahnny Veiga Rodrigues, 5, add to the model of their home city they and their classmates have built in their Russell Elementary preschool classroom. Barry’s plan calls for program improvement first and expansion to universal access second, a position Farran endorses. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Classroom Outcomes Elementary Study 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

In a July 2021 report , the two proposed blurring the last two years of high school with the first two years of college to modernize our secondary and post-secondary education and training systems and connect them “more tightly to the world of work and careers,” according to Vargas who, with Hartung, was among the report’s authors. “To

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Education Secondary Training Report 130

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

Learning 81

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 81

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

” 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. FY 2015 $0. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S. FY 2001: $450,000,000.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.). Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore.

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Elementary Trends Survey Data 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the national nonprofit YouthTruth , in 2015 and 2016, over 84 percent of high school students reported wanting to go to college. Rather, it’s a matter of providing students with greater access to the relationships and resources that they need. High school students tend to dream big.

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Survey Report Data Accessibility 78