The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

For example, the information released by Congress seems to show that the Russians were eager to fund discord, putting money into everything from anti-police brutality ads, Black Lives Matter messages, pro- and anti-immigration calls to action, and agitating against and for the removal of Confederate monuments. So, let’s dig in.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Not unlike the college search, when quality primary and secondary educational opportunities are seen as scarce goods, some parents employ strategies that will significantly increase their children’s likelihood of admission to the prized schools, even at the expense of other children. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 11, 2020

A recent report from Goodwill Education Initiatives surveyed students who are also parents. In the survey, 73% of student-parents reported an increase in their children’s academics; 78% were employed or in college; and their average wages increased $17,000 after graduation. It just needed to be applied in a new way.

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Policies Industry Survey Secondary 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. In the October, 2017, preschool study , published in Frontiers in Psychology, six researchers looked at two Montessori schools in Hartford, Connecticut. They finished their secondary degrees at the same rates with similar grades and final exam results.

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Study Education Secondary Training 89

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

Although associate degrees are sometimes called “two-year degrees,” very few students who earn them do so within two academic years, according to the 2016 “Time to Degree” report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Institutions also should help students get connected to public benefit programs, Welton says. “If

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Researchers attribute their findings to the secondary effects of SEL programs, such as higher academic self-esteem and a more positive attitude towards school itself.

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Learning Analysis Secondary Accessibility 117

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Department of Education’s 2017 National Education Technology Plan. (A

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The Common App, a shared application accepted by more than 900 colleges and universities, reports an increase in the total number of students submitting it this year. The foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) But I see it impacting low-income students the most.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teaching ranks among the most stressful professions, according to Gallup research from 2014, in which about half of teachers reported high daily stress at work, tying medical professionals for the most-stressful jobs. The biggest reason non-retiring teachers leave the classroom, the report noted, is dissatisfaction at work (55 percent).

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example, teaching students how to respect social nuances forms empathy and understanding, enabling better relationship building when working with diverse groups of people. Researchers attribute their findings to the secondary effects of SEL programs, such as higher academic self-esteem and a more positive attitude towards school itself.

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Classroom Learning Analysis Secondary 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 83

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report.

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E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore.

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Elementary Trends Survey Data 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2,

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 77

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

It last raised $21 million in 2017, when it had around 60 employees. Walmart, for example, will cover the cost of tuition, books and fees for its employees. Online usually works better for people who already have some experience with post-secondary education or who are fairly good with technology,” he says.

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Education Company Trends Secondary 65

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home. Take Adobe , for example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. “We Next, students matched images of scenes — a toy car being pushed up a ramp or two people tossing a ball, for example — with the correct word identifying the type of force depicted: strong or gentle.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 87

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. These examples illustrate the range of human experience. Much of our daily experience is less emotionally charged, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s work with the examples above.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

After numerous classroom projects and strong demand from their students, they decided in the spring of 2016 with the support of the school district to massively elevate 3D printing by installing a MakerBot Innovation Center, making MOHS the first secondary school worldwide with such an offering.

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Industry Course Secondary Accessibility 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. billion on elementary and secondary education. billion under the 2017 budget. “We

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 64

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report). In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The bottom line is that the grade on the report card should be reflective of the learning in the class, not whether little Sally was compliant and turned her work in on time. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world. Thanks for sharing real examples.” © Shake Up Learning 2017.

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Policies Google Assessment System 78

Veative

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

One example of this is by using analytics and referring to reports of student data from within the VR environment, teachers can track a student’s understanding of the topics being taught, and bring about changes in pedagogical methodology accordingly. Springer, 2017. Accommodating different learning styles. Steiner, George.

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Training Technology System Study 80

MindShift

MAY 24, 2017

” The National Center for Education Statistics reports that in 2015, 88 percent of seniors – nearly 3 million students – graduated high school. . “And that isn’t just white students. It’s also for black and Latinos. You’re seeing that increase for everybody.”

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Policies Data Outcomes Report 49

MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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Elementary Education Survey Report 39

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

In this post, I’ve synthesized the wisdom from these papers into actionable insights and examples for educators looking to hone their classroom management skills. TD-OTR refers to strategies that allow teachers to gauge student participation and understanding continually (Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017).

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Classroom Secondary Strategy Examples 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was the first to suggest combining MCAS and PARCC into MCAS 2.0. (AP And though the cost for PARCC was expected to rise, the report found “there is no clear conclusion that either assessment program is more or less expensive than the other.”).

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Fast-forward to 2017, and Plessy still prides itself on being one of just a handful of schools in the city that has purposefully sought to integrate its student body. As a child, she went to Eleanor McMain Secondary School, a school in New Orleans that was racially and socio-economically diverse. Read more about New Orleans.

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Training Report Secondary System 70

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2023

Now they’re a tool to encourage more Americans to enroll in college by giving them an early taste of post-secondary education and a head start with a few credits. The Hechinger Report is also an independent news organization based at Teachers College, but the two entities are not affiliated.)

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Course Report Outcomes Data 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. percent in 2017. Barile’s class is a prime example of how Revere High School uses “student-centered learning” to reach a highly diverse student body. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report. percent in 2017. Photo: Nick Chiles for The Hechinger Report.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’ve been studying ALCs for a while now — it was the subject of my sabbatical at Steelcase in 2017-2018 and this paper on the subject that resulted. That question is the topic of this research paper, which I’m reporting on today: Beaudry, S. But there’s quite a bit of that hype.

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Steelcase Classroom Learning Groups 73

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. Maureen Wentworth joined the Ed-Fi Alliance team in June of 2017 as a manager for strategic partnerships.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. The data in the Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. Who could argue that it’s not?”

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145