The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days. And so, in 2012, they made a heartbreaking decision to send their son to a group home in Salem, Oregon, four hours away.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

A 2016 study of 67 students from researchers with Disney, University of Plymouth, University of Lincoln and Ghent University found that the children who used robots saw scores “improve significantly between a pre- and a post-test” on French language skills. Anything involving video and audio and children is uniquely sensitive,” she adds.

Robotics 124

Robotics Company Education Data 124

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized.

OER 147

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. More than a thousand parents have joined a Facebook group called Mainers Concerned About Proficiency Based Learning.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 87

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

Advocacy 171

Advocacy Survey Study System 171

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mangum then took the floor to take the attendees back to 2016 and talked about the important edtech trends of that time. Through a broad array of programs and advocacy, SETDA builds member capacity and engages partners to empower the education community in leveraging technology for learning, teaching, and school operations.

Technology 74

Technology Common Core EdTech Trends 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. “Intensive advocacy falls on parents who have nothing to lose but the promising future a good education ensures our children,” said Cooper.

Advocacy 101

Advocacy Training Report Analysis 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. In national surveys of opt-out activists (conducted with Nancy Green Saraisky) in 2016 and 2018, we found concerns that go beyond the narrow features of standardized testing itself.

Common Core 108

Common Core Advocacy Policies Survey 108

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. percent in 2016. Santiago, a co-founder of Excelencia, in a statement about the initiative.

Advocacy 77

Advocacy Trends Survey Report 77

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MARCH 22, 2016

I’m beyond excited to finally announce that I’m a 2016 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. When I found out that I made the 2016 list, I immediately started wondering which category I would be placed in. We took many different group shots along with our individual pictures. TeamAndy @plemmonsafans https://t.co/Q4REOtfWVR.

Libraries 28

Libraries Meeting Conference Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Mary McLeod Bethune with a group of students after resigning as President of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S. Girls majoring in science, an underrepresented group, are more likely to have become interested through the positive influence of a teacher.

Secondary 91

Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. But the singular toll on students like me — Black parents — continues to go largely unremarked upon.

Policies 131

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 131

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

Chromebook 190

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Above the fireplace hangs a portrait of her daughter Emily, who overdosed in 2016 after a years-long struggle with a heroin addiction. But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Critical Condition.

Advocacy 119

Advocacy Report Groups Policies 119

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. That means approximately 1,600 teachers and 50,000 students are teaching and learning under this model, the group says.

Elementary 110

Elementary Advocacy Trends STEM 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

A group of colleges has decided to stop holding students captive and allow them to get their lives back on track. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.

Libraries 99

Libraries Report Advocacy Policies 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Kaplan 141

Kaplan Policies Report System 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

But students who received the certificates as a surprise reward for their prior record subsequently started playing hooky, actually missing more days of school than a control group of students who weren’t eligible for the certificates. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance.

Study 82

Study Groups Advocacy Conference 82

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Equity Accountability Model: Administration looked at the groups of students that were typically underperforming and asked how they know they are underperforming and why. Smith began his tenure as superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) on July 1, 2016 and is now in his second term as superintendent.

Education 63

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. Never have we had so much information at our fingertips,” the study’s authors wrote.

Social Media 40

Social Media Blended Learning Advocacy Study 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. Of the students he knew, perhaps 10 percent managed relatively well in that period, and he was in that small group, he said. The parents are on their feet applauding.

Education 97

Education Report System Meeting 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In September 2016, that all changed abruptly. PRE4CLE, a private-public partnership, was established by a group of community leaders who wanted to boost access to quality preschool programs in Ohio’s second largest city. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly.

Advocacy 77

Advocacy Report Social Media Training 77

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction. There is also a deep-seated societal belief that some people have a natural aptitude for math.

Report 130

Report Training Elementary Strategy 130

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.

Education 71

Education Social Media EdTech Advocacy 71

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

But this group has something many other prospective job-switchers can’t find: hyperfast training to help them do it quickly. Lucinda Rex got a bachelor’s degree in art in 2016 and proceeded to work 60 to 70 hours a week as a restaurant server to pay off the $60,000 she said she owed in student loans. Even if they weren’t forced to, 4.2

Training 136

Training Industry Report Company 136

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Nearly half of middle and high students in a 2016 Gallup poll reported being either not engaged or actively disengaged in school. Department of Education and in my present role as ISTE Chief Learning Officer, I am struck by how often we find that students, and even some teachers, feel disengaged with school.

Advocacy 158

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 158

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The college with the biggest experiment in ISAs is Purdue University, which in 2016 became the first major public college to offer ISAs. Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory.

Comparison 204

Comparison Study Data Advocacy 204

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. It is every day.”.

Course 90

Course Study Report Policies 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

she asked the group. She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. In 2016 , 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress. Crying ones,” one responded. “I

Training 111

Training Report Survey Strategy 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2016 Purdue University announced an income-share agreement program as a new guinea pig experiment in which students could get money for college in exchange for a share of their future earnings. Whitney Barkley-Denney of the Center for Responsible Lending said her group sees ISAs as high-risk alternatives to student loans.

Company 70

Company Report Survey Industry 70

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016.

Libraries 56

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 56

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

During a group science lab in Giebel and Jolma’s class, Anna Wang, 13, sat on one of the wobbly chairs the school purchased for classrooms this year. “It At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It But the kids themselves “don’t notice it,” she added. Some even took action.

Exercises 106

Exercises Elementary Report Study 106

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. They “didn’t bring up his ability to do the work,” Comeaux said of that January 2016 meeting.

Dropout 79

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., For example, providing warm clothing for the homeless can grow into advocacy for more essential programs to end homelessness. Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys.

Advocacy 69

Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. That’s a really good thing to have on your resume.

Industry 96

Industry Report Company Training 96

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program. He was awarded Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers” award in 2015 for his library advocacy work.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 41