The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Several largely overlooked reports, including from the Department of Defense, raise alarms about how Americans’ disdain for math is a threat to national security. It reports that there are now eight times as many college graduates in these disciplines in China and four times as many engineers in Russia than in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. The girls in the program have learned how to use coding language to dodge out of “escape rooms,” program drones and hack into their peers’ robots.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! Demand for these services run fierce; individual tutors report making as much as $8 million a year. film and production studios.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person. percent are African-American, according to 2015 data from the American Community Survey. The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs. Others have worked w.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Rising use of automated technologies has eliminated thousands of jobs in Mississippi, and many more are at risk, according to a recent report by the Brookings Institution. In fact, 80 percent of Mississippians who sought employment assistance in 2015 had less than a two-year degree.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

It’s not exactly a move from Mr. Robot , but some students have figured out a way to change how their grades appear on online to someone looking at a website presented to them, for a moment at least. The simple HTML edit—not really a “hack” per se—involves going to a web page (like an online gradebook) in Google Chrome.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Looking at the value of a college education through this lens is fueled in part by a 2015 Georgetown University study, which found that college graduates tend to earn an average of $1 million more than high school graduates over the course of their working lives.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Editor’s Note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series exploring the good jobs of the future and how schools are preparing young people for them. . Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report. When states across the nation recently turned in accountability plans required under the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), they showed great variety in their plans for early learning. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2015, for example, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a robot that expressed enthusiasm for learning and actively speculated about a story’s outcome during a reading activity with a child could inspire that youngster’s desire for knowledge.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. wi.us, among other sources."

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Students who participate in guided collaborative projects improve critical thinking and social skills needed for college and careers ( P21 , 2015). News & World Report , 2015). Employers want employees who are able to communicate effectively and work in teams ( NACE , 2015). Why is this important?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

A 5-foot-tall functioning robot leads a phalanx of smaller, award-winning robots—all built by students—stacked high on wire shelves behind it. In addition to project-based learning, SR1 kids travel statewide and compete in robotics tournaments and visit college campuses. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Another time.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2015

Students and schools will compete against each other–virtually, and from home–with the championships taking place during the immersive technology conference IMMERSION 2015 in Paris this September. Material from a press release was used in this report. Augmented reality will also be a focus of the first tournament).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Newkirk concedes they are not the first to use these techniques, but the combination he and his colleagues have devised is getting results beyond what others have reported. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. A robotics competition might draw iUniversity Prep students to Austin, for example, or a running club might gather for a race in Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

So North Star methodically set about reinventing its approach to STEM, with the experiment yielding positive results— from 2013 through 2015, 33 percent of its alumni majored in STEM disciplines in college. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The startup has raised about $13 million in funding, closing $8 million in Series B in December 2015. and the company reports people read about 12 million books per month right now. One of the companies I invested in is Wonder Workshop, makers of Dash and Dot robots, that teaches kids programming. Some 70 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Since 2015, Mississippi has required all 11th-grade students to take the ACT assessment, which measures whether students are ready for college and careers. Students in K-5 were instructed in coding, robotics, and keyboarding from teachers who received specific computer science training. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). “I Aaaaaaaa ,” the kids chanted.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

I stood facing the drone, about to face-off with a little robot. In the United States, for example, news outlets from the Washington Post to CBS have reported on Baltimore’s experience. My mind-control-drone-moving experience was nothing like this. Time to figure out who is boss.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Of this amount, Woongjin invested $5 million in return for a 10 percent stake in Kidaptive, reports The Korea Herald. In 2015, Kidaptive acquired Hodoo English, a language-learning company, in a deal that established Kidadaptive’s Korea headquarter. And to support its work, Kidaptive has raised $19.1

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The winning projects from the 2015 Vernier Engineering Contest focused on developing a robot to test the internal temperature of a Hot Pocket, creating a light bulb from an ordinary staple, and designing a solar oven. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The winning projects from the 2015 Vernier Engineering Contest focused on developing a robot to test the internal temperature of a Hot Pocket, creating a light bulb from an ordinary staple, and designing a solar oven. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” “ 18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” “College made millions by tricking Indigenous people, court finds,” The Guardian reports. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

And, that makes access to adequate and reliable broadband even more important as the development of new technologies continues. The management of such projects includes coordinating data collection from all states, supervising consultants and staff, ensuring member input and supervising the publishing process.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Perhaps one of the few areas of overlap was that three of the four conferences featured the similar talk by Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s education lead, who shared snippets from his team’s latest “Trends Shaping Education” report. Beyond that though, each show catered more or less to its own niche audience.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Other students in their engineering class were constructing a robot for the Dell-sponsored Silicon Valley Tech Challenge and designing a “tiny house” to shelter a homeless person.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. Every emerging industry reports consistent job openings for skilled labor but lacks qualified respondents to fill them. We began to see our role as talent generator and economic engine to grow our small town.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2018

In 2015, for example, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that a robot that expressed enthusiasm for learning and actively speculated about a story’s outcome during a reading activity with a child could inspire that youngster’s desire for knowledge. Another option is for teachers to model curious behavior.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Yannier was deeply affected by a robotics competition in her native Turkey, where she coached underprivileged students to build and program a wheelchair. In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. I didn’t want that.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Related: Can a wall-climbing robot teach your kid to code? This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Welcome to the first early childhood fab lab appeared first on The Hechinger Report. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”.

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