2017, Advocacy, Personalized Learning and Report

Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged? How schools struggle to serve gifted students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report. We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report

?Resource: Project Unicorn Interoperability

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative focused on improving data interoperability within K-12 education. Or as the Hechinger Report noted: “Educators, students, policy makers and the public must be able to understand and use the data. It strives to make the broader case for secure interoperability for students and school system.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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Schools collect more data, but how is it used?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

State leaders are collecting reams of data on students, but they must do more to put that information into the hands of parents and teachers, according to a new report. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. Sign up for our newsletter.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year. He wouldn’t be allowed back until the next school year.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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How Schools Struggle to Serve Gifted Students with Disabilities

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

This story about twice exceptional students was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report ). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment

Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A decorated educator of 21 years, Monica has received honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations for her leadership, advocacy, and classroom instruction. Her, “4 Things Great Principals Don’t Do,” was the most read and shared Education Week post of 2017. Join the Community.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Foundations promoting the model also pitched in, like the Massachusetts-based foundation Nellie Mae, a proponent of proficiency-approaches, which provided two districts with roughly $6 million in funding over seven years to support student-centered learning. It’s better than it was.”

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. ” Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Currently, students are recommended for involuntary virtual learning by the principal, she said, and these placements are tracked aggregately along with suspensions, which makes identifying the particular impact of virtualization difficult. Louis, in the spring of 2022. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. MESA, Ariz.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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A day in the life of a school social worker

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning.

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What’s school without grade levels?

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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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I mean, 2017 really sucked, and we’re all feeling it. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose vision for the future of education involves “ whole child personalized learning ” and who says it plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into education initiatives to that end. The World Economic Forum.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Choose as many as you like.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Horizon Report. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.”

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Dramatic DeVos nomination begs question: Can she be an effective Ed Secretary?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Nevertheless, many choice advocates support DeVos, including the Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz , former Florida Governor Jeb Bush , a national charter advocacy organization and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal , Chicago Tribune and Detroit News , among others. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Twice exceptional, doubly disadvantaged? How schools struggle to serve gifted students with disabilities

?Resource: Project Unicorn Interoperability

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

Schools collect more data, but how is it used?

In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

How Schools Struggle to Serve Gifted Students with Disabilities

Strategies for Culturally Responsive Teaching

The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

A day in the life of a school social worker

What’s school without grade levels?

Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

The messy reality of personalized learning

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Hack Education Weekly News

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

Dramatic DeVos nomination begs question: Can she be an effective Ed Secretary?

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