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. More states should have such systems in place, said Selene Almazan, legal director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

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. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

Advocacy 86

Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 86

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 107

Common Core Advocacy Policies Survey 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program.

Policies 130

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

Groups 98

Groups Advocacy Report Study 98

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. So therefore, institutions must learn how to serve those students better.”

E-rate 133

E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 133

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. It’s been up and down, too, for many others involved with Cleveland’s school system, who are on edge about what comes next. Still, the research on these efforts is mixed.

Education 96

Education Report System Meeting 96

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. In 2016, Dr. Moran was selected to serve on the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.

Dropout 266

Dropout Company Twitter Maker Movement 266

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

STEM 93

STEM Industry Data Survey 93

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 156

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 156

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.”.

Kaplan 140

Kaplan Policies Report System 140

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The students who used Khan Academy – specifically, students who used Khan Academy’s online homework system – had significantly more opportunities to practice, receive feedback, reflect, and practice again than students who used an open textbook. Homework Systems. Research at CMU.

Khan Academy 106

Khan Academy OER Case Study System 106

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Michelle is the 2016 TCEA Library Media Specialist of the Year, a 2017 AASL Advocacy Ambassador Finalist, a Wonderopolis Wonder Lead Ambassador, a Makey Makey Ambassador, and a Common Sense Media Ambassador, as well as a recipient of the 2016 TASL MVP Honorable Award for Excellence and the 2016 TLA Branding Iron Award for Social Media for #TXLchat.

Symantec 46

Symantec Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media 46

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. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

Elementary 188

Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The United States’ ignoble history of segregation, housing and employment discrimination and a broken criminal justice system has kept millions of black people from supporting their families and robbed us of opportunities to create wealth. Decades of segregation confined black people in specific neighborhoods.

Libraries 97

Libraries Report Advocacy Policies 97

Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

Education 281

Education Industry Sony Policies 281

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 31, 2019

In September 2016, that all changed abruptly. At the time, only 25 percent of Cleveland’s 3 to 5-year-olds were enrolled in high-quality preschool, as defined by the state’s quality rating system. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly.

Advocacy 77

Advocacy Report Social Media Training 77

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.

Education 71

Education Social Media EdTech Advocacy 71

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S. Congress has failed to fully fund the Title I grant program, which provides funding to low-income schools and districts — the schools black and brown students attend — and helps fill gaps created by inequitable school financing systems. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

Secondary 89

Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 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. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

Education 247

Education Examples Maker Movement Company 247

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

Training 134

Training Industry Report Company 134

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 78

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 78

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”.

Study 136

Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is just another systemic disadvantage that we put in front of low-income kids and kids of color.”. This is just another systemic disadvantage that we put in front of low-income kids and kids of color,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research at The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization.

Report 101

Report Study Advocacy Policies 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. It’s not just a tweak in the traditional educational system,” said Pat Fitzsimmons, the Vermont Agency of Education’s proficiency-based learning team leader. MONTPELIER, Vt.

Learning 82

Learning System Report Outcomes 82

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

ALA Editions has published two collections of his writings: The Heart of Librarianship: Attentive, Positive, and Purposeful Change (2016) and Wholehearted Librarianship: Finding Hope, Inspiration, and Balance (2019). Michael resides in Traverse City, Michigan. Kline Community Impact Prize.

Libraries 60

Libraries Conference Training Advocacy 60

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. Colleges and the way we market need to change,” said Garcia, who also is a former college president.

Industry 95

Industry Report Company Training 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

Training 111

Training Report Survey Strategy 111

Philly Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

I was honored today to take part in the first “Tea with Teachers” round table discussion of 2016 focused around teacher retention. The Department of Education can set up systems and policies that support these factors, but in the end, this hard work must be done at the local level.

Edcamps 40

Edcamps Education Policies Advocacy 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Jennifer Pearson ( @RuralLibAssoc ) Library Director, Marshall County Memorial Library Opening Keynote Jennifer Pearson is the Director of the Marshall County Memorial Library System. Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations.

Libraries 56

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 56

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group, issued a document in 2016 along with two other organizations asking states to establish performance-based funding systems that pay virtual charters based on metrics like course completion and calling on charter authorizers to close chronically underperforming schools.

E-rate 121

E-rate Pearson Company Report 121

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

the national movement to redefine what it means for students to be college, career and life ready while serving as the 2015-2016 President of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. In the fall of 2016 Ann co-authored and published Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby. Join the Community.

Technology 40

Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. The backup in Milwaukee is so severe that it is not uncommon for people to wait six weeks to get a first appointment to begin the eligibility process, said Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. “I

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Training Software System 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, many schools and districts are still relying on individuals or looking for that magic program rather than developing educational systems that provide a high-quality, modern education for all students. Or, while the kids in that one school thrive, others across the district are left behind. Tiffany Anderson, Ed.D.

System 53

System Digital Divide E-rate Education 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Yet only about 30 percent of Newark Memorial graduates meet the requirements for admission to the public University of California system.

Report 81

Report Company Study Advocacy 81

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Jennifer Pearson ( @RuralLibAssoc ) Library Director, Marshall County Memorial Library Opening Keynote Jennifer Pearson is the Director of the Marshall County Memorial Library System. Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 41