The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. As the coronavirus closes schools, online platforms are proving to be invaluable, allowing instruction to continue and alleviating the severity of students’ learning loss. According to 2018 study by the U.S.

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all. Students learn in different ways and have varying needs. The Fuel Education ® Transformation Awards program celebrates schools, districts, or organizations that are successfully transforming the way teachers teach and students learn. ©2018 Fuel Education LLC.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

29, 2018 – Schools in Rhode Island, Texas, Massachusetts and Alabama have joined more than 650 schools around the world in choosing The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.), as their online course solution for students in the upcoming academic year. is an online learning pioneer. Bo ston – Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. Principal Alice Hom speaking to parents and theater club students at P.S. 124 in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

4, 2018 – Stacy Young, Associate Dean of Faculty at The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.),will will be speaking at the CSforALL Summit 2018, being held October 8-11 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. is an online learning pioneer. Bo ston – Oct. About The Virtual High School The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. Young people whose education included a work-based learning experience — and with it a sampling of career opportunities they might never have imagined.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. That’s why everyone paid attention.”.

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techlearning

JUNE 19, 2018

(Minneapolis, MN) June 19, 2018 — Capstone’s K–2 online resource PebbleGo today announced its release of expanded Spanish materials. PebbleGo’s database is used by students in nearly 20% of the country’s elementary schools. PebbleGo’s database is used by students in nearly 20% of the country’s elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. In five years, we will have something that has been built without any input from teachers and without any shaping around the needs of education,” Culatta said.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 19, 2020

The post The Top 20 Podcast Episodes appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I started the Shake Up Learning Show Podcast in 2018. You can stream episodes right here on the Shake Up Learning website. You can access the show notes and blog posts for each episode by going to shakeuplearning.com/[episodenumber].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Katie Crook, Newington Elementary School’s only ESOL teacher, didn’t hear back from many of the parents she texted early on, perhaps because of literacy issues. She’s been using Google Classroom, an online resource meant to help teachers manage students’ coursework, since September 2018. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

San Francisco Unified School District aims to incorporate CS into the core curriculum for all students in grades pre-K-8, in order to increase access for underrepresented student populations, specifically African-American and Latino students and girls. Expose students to computer science at a young age.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

In November 2018, the school district in Aurora, a suburb 10 miles east of Denver, asked the community to increase local property taxes to help schools hire more teachers, pay for seatbelts in buses and provide a big boost to the district’s mental health program. We were very actively involved in this work before we got the money.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“So the day before teachers were called back, I got a call from my principal asking me to go online.” No One-Size-Fits-All When it comes to research, part of Claffey’s dilemma may stem from the fact that not much has been conducted on the topic at the K-12 level (most has focused on online class sizes in higher education.)

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Apparently 1:1 device access.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It all started in September 2018. To complement its forward-thinking vision, the district sought a blended curriculum solution that offered a full suite of digital resources accessible from a single platform. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Equal access to online learning opportunities has continued to be a challenge, with the focus expanding beyond access to devices and hotspots and now including high-speed access for all students. He brings a vision for learning that emphasizes the importance of collaboration and engagement. Dr. Carol L.

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Kathy Schrock

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in November 2018 and is re-posted here with permission. _ Students in the masters program get access to these databases, too, as well as a subscription to Discovery Education Streaming!) What were you feeling?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Especially in states like Arizona, where families have little access to mental health care, students often turn to school counseling to triage their personal crises. Department of Health & Human Services.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Though his students learn from home, Albert Morales is still delivering instruction from his classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” Techcrunch with the corporate PR : “For Apple , this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education.” More tonight at 8PM ET.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

student population today participate in tutoring, it has historically been reserved for the monied elite and is often cost-prohibitive for children like Victor, who attends an elementary school where three in four students receive discounted meals. A 2018 report by the Pew Research Center found that 15 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.” ” “Whatever happened to the promise of online learning ?”

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