The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Friends can act as a support system for stressful situations, and if a child feels like they don’t have any friends in school, they may be more vulnerable to toxic stress. The Science of Early Life Toxic Stress for Pediatric Practice and Advocacy. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015, 100(9), pp. Johnson, S.B., Riley, A.W.,

Classroom 239

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools.,

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While each gifted journey may be different, and the obstacles each gifted child and their family face can be simply inconvenient or tragically painful, there are three areas teachers and parents should remember when searching for answers to help better the educational, emotional and social lives of gifted children— advocacy, activities and mentors.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I

Advocacy 110

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. The small Connecticut town, just south of the Massachusetts border, is in its fifth year under a system that asks students to master specific skills in every subject. All of us deciding together.

Common Core 93

Common Core Advocacy System Personalized Learning 93

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Hickory’s scores improved from 52 percent of students reading at grade level in 2015 to 59 percent in 2019, compared with an increase from 56 percent to 57 percent for the state as a whole. READ THE SERIES. It sounds complicated because it is.

Elementary 145

Elementary Report Training Advocacy 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

[ Or we could point the accountability arrow the other direction and hold our elected representatives ‘accountable’ for meeting the clear desires of Iowans for a strong education system and a solid future for our state. That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). What will we choose? ]. Related Posts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Sometimes I’ll walk in, and I discover a teacher that I wasn’t even aware of in the system — because we’ve got, you know, over 1200 teachers in Albemarle. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools., a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S.

Elementary 188

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

While there are many factors that play into this dismal outcome, according to the 2015 ACT College Choice Report , research has shown that one issue is the alignment (or lack of alignment) between a student’s core interests and their chosen major.

Advocacy 156

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 156

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

during the 2015-16 school year were women. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. “It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

Secondary 89

Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. percent under the old system to 53.5 percent under the new system. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. During the same period, the U.S.

Data 89

Data Analysis Advocacy Policies 89

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

One of the things that we really spend a lot of time doing is trying to help people “unlearn” some of what I think that we built into the system over time that people just came to accept. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools., Vicki: (agrees).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. “To That’s another barrier right there,” she said.

Report 144

Report Course Advocacy Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A. Join the Community.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. The title of her session alone resonated with me. Wagner earned a Ph.D.

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Education Social Media EdTech Advocacy 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But instead of a deadly hurricane, this year brought another crisis that shut the city’s school system: the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps no school system had a distance learning plan in place that anticipated a shutdown on the scale of the coronavirus closures. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized,” he said, “and students play absolutely no role.”.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. This involves eliminating and dismantling systemic and systematic discriminatory practices and services that prevent students from receiving a premier educational experience.

Differentiated Instruction 77

Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 77

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

So we now have an Iowa school report card system that confirms what we already knew from the peer-reviewed research and from other locations, which is that schools with higher poverty levels tend to do less well on indicators of school success. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery?

Report 50

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. EducationSuperHighway helped as far as getting a solid internet connection to school districts,” said William Gantz, the district’s systems engineer.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Work on the platform began within the charter network Summit Public Schools and was transformed when Facebook began to lend engineering support in 2015. CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others.

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Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores.

E-rate 121

E-rate Pearson Company Report 121

Reading By Example

AUGUST 19, 2015

This article should be required reading for any school or district committees revisiting their grading system. Kohn moves beyond the argument between A’s and B’s vs. standards-based grading, and highlights the problems with the system itself. The Case Against Grades (Educational Leadership, November 2011).

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Guidelines Outcomes Elementary System 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

His warning that an educational system is willing to remove a child from a parent is one of the cruelest threats I’ve ever seen a school district make. million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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Report Advocacy STEM Resources 75

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 14, 2015

Via the stream below beginning at 8:30 am Eastern, join The Atlantic for our first annual Education Summit where we will gather educators, innovators and policymakers to examine America’s education system from cradle to college and explore changes that could improve how we approach learning in the years to come. With Matt Thompson.

Education 40

Education Advocacy Policies iPad 40

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. One example of a study with stronger controls is Allen, Guzman-Alvarez, Molinaro, and Larsen (2015). But that’s no reason not to share it. Why Would Adopting OER Change Student Outcomes?

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But it’s another thing to actually have support systems to deal with the students that are there.”. We kept saying, ‘Oh, it’s because they have issues at home, they have to work, it’s the public school system,’” she said. “We Other state systems, such as those in West Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, have begun similar efforts.

Report 111

Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A review by The Hechinger Report of complaints to the Colorado Department of Education found that district threat determinations appeared to flout disability law in at least four other cases since 2015. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect.

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Assessment Report Training Guidelines 100

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We not only have to understand that we can have personal biases, but that there are biases ingrained in the system. A decorated educator of 21 years, Monica has received honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations for her leadership, advocacy, and classroom instruction.

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Secondary 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

[link] Loida Garcia-Febo International Library Consultant @loidagarciafebo Loida Garcia-Febo is an international library consultant, researcher and expert on topics such as human rights, advocacy and services to multicultural populations. Garcia-Febo is the recipient of the 2015 REFORMA Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Libraries Conference Training Advocacy 60

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Palmer High School calibrates the VR system. He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves. Digital inequity is the thoughtful and intentional result of many interlocking systems of oppression.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. It’s a system that has generally worked well for Devin. Here’s why they’re not.

Dropout 78

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16. In 2015, 52.4 That’s what the state has put in place. We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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Elementary Training Advocacy Strategy 75