The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The findings provide further evidence of a trend identified last year by a Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis of data gathered from 40 states that revealed a racial divide in career and technical education, or CTE. Alabama officials said they face similar obstacles in expanding access to STEM and information technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bernard Bull was nominated to share his thoughts by futurist Bryan Alexander, who wrote for the project in 2017. Using a global analysis of thousands of educational innovations, Winthrop examines the concept of “leapfrogging,” something more commonly applied in the business sector, to describe important trends. Last, Stephen M.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students. Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

It’s a quiet trend that’s sweeping some of the country’s major employers. One company steering the trend is Guild Education , which partners with companies and education providers to offer employees programs ranging from master’s degrees to a high-school diploma. It last raised $21 million in 2017, when it had around 60 employees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

But David Douglas is not alone in bucking the national trend. The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. The uptick in schools offering music classes since 2000 is in keeping with a longer, 50-year trend.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

In 2017, Frontline sold to Thoma Bravo for $1.3 According to its website, New U is eyeing products and services that “redefine a post-secondary education that supports the future of work, improves quality, expands access, and optimizes outcomes for the next century.” These deals also pumped up its valuation as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. “These are luxuries that many families in this country do not have, so there absolutely is an advantage there.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We purged through the winners and compiled a list of educational tools and gadgets for you to look for in 2017. zHQSf3 Photo Source A simple Google search for CES2017 will result in more technologies that made the list, but hopefully this compilation is a good starting point for the best of what to expect in 2017. Learn more > goo.gl/zHQSf3

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Two: It’s the first Horizon Report to not simply forecast developments in several areas, but to declare an “uber trend.” The potential impacts, good and bad?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Holmes County, where half the students live below poverty level , is following a national trend by using online resources to offer more advanced high school courses to its students. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, In 2017, the average score on all AP exams statewide was a 2.2, nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. If Bowie can buck this trend and be successful, he’d not only be helping out his family but the state. And most students who leave school don’t make it back.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

edtech startups in 2017. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration). On the whole, bigger but fewer deals is a trend common across all U.S. Investment Trends Breaking down the $1.45 Last year, U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

With those tools in place, Olathe began measuring social-emotional learning (SEL) data and teaching SEL skills in every classroom in the fall of 2017. They also can see the trend data. Social-emotional learning is a high priority, not only for our school district, but also for the state of Kansas. And we can be proactive.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

Holmes County, where half the students live below poverty level , is following a national trend by using online resources to offer more advanced high school courses to its students. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report).

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MindShift

MAY 24, 2017

A 2011 report by CARE found that up to two-third of Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States don’t have any form of post-secondary education and that for the ones who do enter college, half drop out. ” Copyright 2017 NPR. “And really, it’s rooted in this model-minority myth.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. School officials are often surprised by their own spending trends, once they see them. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. Who could argue that it’s not?” s long history of segregation and racist policies.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools. Child Development, 2017, 88(4), pp. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, March 2019, 14, pp. Engaged and Empowered: The Importance of Arts Education. Retrieved from arts.gov: [link]. Coopersmith, J., and Spiegelman, M. Retrieved from ed.gov: [link]. Hancock, D.R.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. And they are popular: Of the almost 30,000 teenagers who applied for spots in New Jersey’s vocational programs in 2017, only about 13,000 received seats.

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Education Industry Training Report 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I will give a bit of a disclaimer that this is more of an elementary-focused episode, but frankly, I think we have a bigger problem with waste, plastic, lamination, and so on at the elementary level than at the secondary level where it’s more common to find paperless and nearly paperless classrooms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below).

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 77

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2020

Based on a survey of nearly 2,000 school superintendents across the United States, the decennial study examines national trends in demographics, professional development, equity and other factors related to superintendents’ working lives.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold. So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga. Photo: AP Photo/W.A. See chart below.). Maybe we need to rethink our advice.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Charles Koch Foundation ’s 2017 Giving Neared $90M.” ” Via e-Literate : “Fall 2017 Top 30 Largest Online Enrollments In US – With LMS Usage and Trends Since 2012.” .” Via NPR : “ Chickenpox Outbreak Hits N.C. Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” In previous years, these were also popular acquisition targets, but 2017 saw several of these high-profile acquisitions falter under new corporate leadership.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2018

3) In 2017, Reich shared four steps he thinks is necessary to solving the student debt crisis: 1. By the time somebody is ready for post-secondary education, it's almost too late for many. There's an ongoing trend we're seeing now, where some small, often private colleges have shut down.

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