eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

One educator even contributed excerpts of his how-to article from the February 2016 issue of Tech & Learning magazine.”. For example, a recommendation to provide staff with a technology needs assessment contains a link to a National Center for Technology Planning survey questionnaire. How to run a successful pilot program. •

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. They “didn’t bring up his ability to do the work,” Comeaux said of that January 2016 meeting.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens , from The Education Trust, researchers found most families of color don’t think schools are set up for their students to succeed. Nancy is a P-12 Research Associate and leads the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development work at EdTrust.

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MindShift

JANUARY 13, 2018

The researchers found that adolescents who assisted strangers reported higher self-esteem one year later. “Surprisingly, teens who helped friends and family members did not report the same emotional change,” says Dr. Laura Padilla-Walker , a psychology professor at Brigham Young University and one of the study’s researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). On report cards, grades are presented in the new system, but on transcripts the school provides a conversion to a traditional letter grade — an element that has meant grades are easy for parents to understand.

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

Walters previously served as chair of GL Education, the leading provider of educational tests and assessments to UK schools; Rising Stars UK, the second largest primary school publisher in the UK; and Book Source, a UK-based book distributor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. ” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Born into a family struggling with opioid addiction in early 2016, Ryder joined his mother at two separate residential treatment centers before the age of 2, and later lived with her in a homeless shelter for more than 100 days. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. He’s changed a lot,” Bihner says of her son.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Dayne Guest graduated from high school in 2016. The school tested him, and the report said Dayne had weaknesses “often seen in students diagnosed with reading disabilities including dyslexia.” APM Reports/Emily Hanford). Today Guest’s options are limited because he struggles to read. All of them have dyslexia.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, providing warm clothing for the homeless can grow into advocacy for more essential programs to end homelessness. 2016 Article | Flint Weighs Scope of Harm to Children Caused by Lead in Water. 2016 Op-Ed | Poisoned Water in Newark Schools. Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report . SPECIAL REPORT. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo/The Hechinger Report . Rural ones.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. K-12 market.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report has spent a year exploring the elements of the Summit model, the extensive training process for schools that are new to the program and the twists and turns of implementation. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. 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

MARCH 26, 2018

Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The top cybersecurity threats to schools outlined in the CoSN Cybersecurity Report are Phishing, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Data Breach, Ransomware, and IoT (Internet of Things) Attacks. After the cyberattack, the crisis response is invaluable to assess why the attack happened and develop new protocols if necessary. “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships. Baker began exploring a partnership with Wiley in 2016 to take some of the courses her division already had online “to the next level,” she said.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets. The platform supports balanced literacy programs with integrated tools such as embedded assessments, a student recommendation engine, analytics to demonstrate reading growth, and engaging reading practice opportunities.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

This is landmark legislation,” Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy at Girls Who Code, tells EdSurge. The education department will then compile all the school data into a report published “conspicuously” on its website, according to the bill.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This story about special education services was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Photo: Caroline Preston / The Hechinger Report. School employees in most states have a legal obligation to report any suspicion of abuse and neglect, and they can play a critical role in helping keep children out of harm’s way. But even some former child welfare officials say the practice isn’t as rare as they’d like.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Internal government documents, watchdog reports and interviews with veterans’ policy advocates, government staffers and other officials suggest that little has been done to crack down on colleges accused of predatory behavior. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report. In a 2011 congressional hearing, then-Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

That number likely topped two million in 2016, meaning more American students are now homeschooled than enrolled in parochial schools. Education officials must also recognize that standardized assessments do not translate to homeschooled children. The concept of “one size fits all” does not work on a curricular level or on assessments.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

New data analyses by NCES offer an updated assessment of the adoption of online learning by high schools: More than 4 in 10 U.S. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. public high schools (42.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. Most, but not all, reported an absence of the sort of therapeutic benefit implied by the program’s name. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. That was far from the worst grade in the 2011 report. History when they reach high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Second claim: Reports that Michigan lacks school accountability are “ false news. ”. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Newsletters Why : Advocacy, community connections, sharing resources, showcasing student work How : Wakelet , Padlet , Smore , Google Slides, PPT “A newsletter is a wonderful way of advocating [for your library], Holzweiss said. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Or lack thereof – see “ The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool.”). These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Credit: Mike Vanata for the Hechinger Report. This story is one of four produced by local reporters under Hechinger’s inaugural Local News Fellowship project. Credit: Mike Vanata for the Hechinger Report. Credit: Mike Vanata for the Hechinger Report. Local News Fellowship.

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