Doug Levin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Given that I do not believe that the 2016 EdNext Poll on School Reform’s findings about ‘blended learning’ should be taken at face value, what do I think the poll actually reveals? This is malarkey.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Digital citizenship, making and virtual reality all had strong showings at ISTE 2016, observable by the throngs of educators lined up to learn, including this line shown below at the Nearpod booth in the ISTE Expo Hall. Matty Fox (@what2foxsay) June 28, 2016. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 109

edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2021

She recommends starting with the extent of equity and inclusion in the current environment, and then identifying which policies and practices can ensure an equitable and inclusive environment throughout the district, including the administrative, finance, and human resources departments. Aligning Policies.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2019

public schools since 2016, according to the K–12 Cyber Incident Map. There have been 712 publicly disclosed cybersecurity-related incidents involving U.S. Based on anecdotal information, I would not be surprised if more incidents than the 712 reported actually occurred,” says Douglas Levin, president and founder of EdTech Strategies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We We were just like, ‘Is it just me, or are kids really nervous?’” Pierrottet recalls. Here’s what she found is standing in the way — and how states are finding solutions.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

A study published online in April 2024 in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis illustrates the inconsistencies of teacher shortages in Tennessee, where one district had a surplus of high school social studies teachers, while a neighboring district had severe shortages. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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ExcelinEd

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

ExcelinEd, along with its partners, is developing a new policy set that will connect parents and teachers directly. We call this policy “Parent-Teacher Compacts” and they would allow parents and teachers to form written agreements to serve students. Before we get to the policy, let’s take a moment to look back before the pandemic.

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Waterford

MARCH 4, 2021

Examples of organizational conditions are wider reaching, like integrated and sustained improvements across a school or district—such as adjusting school policies in ways that offer more opportunities for family engagement.[3] When educators and school policies prioritize family engagement, the whole school benefits. Dual Capacity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Working in small groups, they described both the physical structures and city policies that prevent the development of a grocery store in the area, thus sustaining the food desert. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2020

Since 2016, Digital Promise’s 360° Story Lab has supported people in using emerging and interactive technologies to create media that goes beyond the frame of traditional media and journalism. What types of policies and actions contribute to this kind of inequality and division, and what policies and actions would contribute to ending it?

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Facebook Policies Groups Video 189

eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2023

Founded in 2016, BookNook provides high-impact tutoring and engaging learning materials to close the learning equity gap. In addition, a study with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), based at Teachers College, Columbia University, shows a clear link between BookNook participation and student literacy development.

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Industry Education Company Policies 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“We want to create a sense of urgency to continue to close those gaps,” said Roberto Rodriguez, assistant secretary in the Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).

Digital Divide 88

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 88

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2016

Since January 2016, we’ve showcased over 100 edtech “S’Cool Tools.” So, we’re bringing you the top ten S’Cool Tools that you, our readers, have loved the most in the first half of 2016. PicLits states in its privacy policy that it does not share email addresses except as required by law. The results are oddly poetic.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This week, as we celebrate Digital Promise’s fifth anniversary , we also welcome the districts who are part of the 2016-2017 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools. And now, meet the 2016-2017 cohort: Bristol Warren Regional School District. Compton Unified School District. Covina-Valley Unified School District.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ralabate (2016) gives us five fundamental questions that allow teachers to begin to transform their practice. Is the variability in my student’s performance due entirely to their performance, or is there variance that is due to the design of the activity (Ralabate, 2016). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. Ralabate P. Brookes Publishing.

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UDL Education Digital Divide Equity of Access 108

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2018

As a matter of policy, IT staff should be integrally involved in all purchases of connected technology from the very beginning. Similarly, board members and administrators must empower IT staff to set and enforce security policies in educational institutions they serve. . Establish Strong Security Policies and Procedures.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 20, 2016

Working with educators and trying to help challenge the traditional notion of schooling, many of them will come to me privately and say, “I would love to do some of this stuff, but our policies won’t allow us.” Wpg Teachers’ Ass’n (@WinnipegTA) March 23, 2016. WinnipegSDITLL. —

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

See the map below from NCES ( or make your own ), which shows that most states are trying for their children to achieve NAEP’s Basic level, not Proficient: Once again, in the words of Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, “ Proficient on NAEP does not mean grade level performance.

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Jing Liu, assistant professor in education policy at the University of Maryland College Park, says that he and his fellow researchers were surprised by their findings. Penner’s past policy work has examined the factors within education that harm students of certain races.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Elizabeth Iwaszewicz’s Bio as Submitted Twenty years in the elementary school setting Current Position: Lead Coach, Curriculum and Instruction, Office of Professional Growth and Development San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA National Board Certified Teacher Generalist, Early Childhood Instructional Leadership Corps Collaborate (..)

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2023

The authors drew on data from the 2016–2017 to 2019–2020 school years involving more than 2,900 teachers and 79,000 students in grades K–12 in 101 schools in a large, diverse urban district in California. “We

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

What’s your school’s current technology acceptable use policy? As teachers continue to enhance instruction using 21st-century devices, the written policies for technology are often not clear or outdated. Department of Education, 2016). Most schools have an acceptable use policy (AUP), a document that outlines those expectations.

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Handbook How To Chromebook Policies 85

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2021

This year, leaves of absences in Long Beach increased by 35 percent, and fewer than half of its 1,100-member substitute pool signaled a willingness to work, Assistant Superintendent David Zaid told researchers from the Learning Policy Institute, which recently published a report on the teacher shortage in California.

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Policies Report Survey Data 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Davis, an assistant professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Education Analysis Report Elementary 167

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. COVID-19 shed light on the huge gap in policy relating to tech and infrastructure provisioning—what many are now referring to as a civil rights issue.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 138

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Despite the good intentions of targeted policies and increased attention to equity and accessibility initiatives, the achievement gap persists 2. Stanford, CA: The Alliance for Excellent Education and Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. 2016, May). Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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Common Core Elementary Outcomes Report 282

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Spurred by a call to action at our 2016 Education Innovation Clusters convening , we launched a national Equity Working Group to critically examine diversity, equity, and inclusion in their networks and curate resources to support the journey. But they can also perpetuate the very inequities they seek to address.

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Tools Education Policies System 207

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Since 2016, our diverse team of assessment design experts have collaborated with classroom teachers to develop high-quality assessments that give educators the information they need to ensure all students grow to be life-long learners.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 20, 2016

November 2016). December 2016). No topic seemed to be off the table; students elected to research race, class, sexuality, and immigration policy, as examples. November/December 2016). I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou. So Many Literacies. The Council Chronicle (NCTE), pgs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Cristina Novoa, senior policy analyst for Early Childhood Policy at American Progress. Thirty-four percent of parents of children with disabilities were unable to find child care in 2016, compared to 29 percent of parents with nondisabled children. Families of children with disabilities are really, really struggling.”.

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Policies Report Trends Accessibility 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. I feel like we’re all running this marathon,” says An-Me Chung, the director of teaching, learning and tech at New America and strategic advisor to the organization’s education policy program.

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Digital Divide EdTech Broadband E-rate 154

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

In Pennsylvania, a 2016 study revealed that the whiter the school district, the more state funding it received relative to its “fair share”; and the more Black and Latino students in a school district, the less state funding it received per student. Driving that overall inequity is the inequity in funding.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It doesn’t make their lives better or more prosperous, just more difficult and challenging, and we do it despite a poor track record for retention policies and without a solid base of scientific research demonstrating that it’s best for kids.

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Assessment Policies Data System 107

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2016

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