The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Her school had received free software licenses through a state-funded project, but she’d initially missed the formal instruction on how to use the program because she was out sick. “A Research in 2018 on 48 school districts concluded that a median of only 30 percent of licenses ever got used.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2018

Date: April 19, 2018. Eileen Lennon (@eileen_lennon) February 6, 2018. It was a profound change in how I was thinking about things. What do you think about that comparison? Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Infographics in Education with Eileen Lennon. Eileen: Yes!

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The aim of summative assessment is generally to report on students’ level of learning at a particular time” (Dolin, Black, Harlen, & Tiberghien, 2018). It is most effective to provide scripts with the correct answers, so they can give themselves some feedback through comparison. Harlen, W., & Tiberghien, A. Dolin & R.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2018

Date: May 25, 2018. What is it, and how do we work with it in our students and in ourselves? Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. 5 Ways to Overcome Cognitive Overload. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e325. Vicki: Cognitive overload. I know Todd from writing also Edutopia.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For example, at the nonprofit where I work, nearly 190,000 people have signed up for our MOOCs in 2018 compared to around 145,000 last year and 177,000 in November, 2015. In an information-saturated world, digital literacy requires that people practice arbitrage techniques, knowing exactly how to find the information relevant to their work.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Although this generation can navigate the digital world with ease, it is unreasonable to assume young people fully understand how to leverage technology for best possible outcomes. By comparison, teens who don’t access the Internet via mobile devices tend to go online less frequently. By 2018, STEM jobs in the U.S.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The aim of summative assessment is generally to report on students’ level of learning at a particular time” (Dolin, Black, Harlen, & Tiberghien, 2018). It is most effective to provide scripts with the correct answers, so they can give themselves some feedback through comparison. Harlen, W., & Tiberghien, A. Dolin & R.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

SPARK does this by bringing in volunteer experts from industry to help train faculty and students about how to bring the results of their research to market, and by giving them $50,000 a year for two years to create product proposals, also known as proofs of concept. The Stanford University campus. It’s paying off.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

“In less than 18 years, we have already seen more deaths related to school shootings than in the whole 20th century,” said Antonis Katsiyannis, Clemson University researcher and the lead author of a 2018 study on school shootings. Some organizations are taking a decidedly different approach to improving school safety.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 3, 2020

It is easy to get a focus on things that you don’t have or play the comparison game with others. You might know the motions, but you don’t really know how to play.” Some of the strategies are broader, and some are relatively specific, but hopefully, there is something that can help someone else in this process.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2019

I have spent the past 30 years working at the intersection of poverty and education, and the question that has vexed me the most has been how to widen the doors of opportunity when confronted with such entrenched inequities. And on some structural level, these doors remain closed to those who most need opportunity. This is simply untrue.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

While there are limits to comparisons between the two educational approaches — special education is legally mandated and personalized learning is a loosely defined pedagogical philosophy that takes many forms — some of the cracks that have appeared in personalized learning are not unlike those facing special education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He and his colleagues have since updated these findings twice, in 2014 and now in 2018 , with data through the 2015-2016 , which recently became available. For comparison, the number of non-white students increased by 96 percent during these same 30 years. Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

One theory for how to improve schools begins not with teachers in the classroom but with the principals who hire and oversee them. That means if the comparison school scored at the 50th percentile — in the middle — then the students in the principal pipeline school would have been likely to score at 56th percentile.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I’m a believer in the merits of technology and have written about how technology can be used to broaden access to knowledge , connect people and even improve empathy. But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming. Our schools are inextricably linked to our democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. We can liken this practice to clientelism.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The 2018 Niche.com rankings listed our district as one of the top 15 “Best School Districts in America” for the fourth year in a row. It was eye-opening to see our classrooms in comparison to the schools we visited outside of our district. The TAC wanted to be very thoughtful about how to deliver the recommendations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase). Data suggests that this trend will continue, particularly in comparison to non-STEM positions. Across the country, the share of STEM jobs has expanded significantly, with STEM employment increasing from 9.7 million to 17.3 HBCUs are well situated to meet the demands of a STEM economy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2019

In a time of stubborn performance gaps between white students and students of color, and between rich and poor, this university of just over 500 undergraduates may offer a script for how to ensure that students from different backgrounds graduate at similar rates. Photo courtesy of Amarachi Orakwue. Its share of Pell students is 39 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

But, despite a 2018 education reform law that allows for more local control, the Puerto Rico department of education is still heavily centralized, making it difficult to get the money out the door quickly. By comparison, so few students made the cut in Puerto Rico in either grade that year that the percentages rounded to zero.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

While messaging might seem trivial in comparison to these other practices, I can’t emphasize enough how vague marketing can turn teachers off. Example : Screencastify’s site is a good model of how to do this well. Avoid the whole “Contact us to try this out!” and guided demo approach.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

FREE WEBINAR: How to Get Google Certified. As a Google Certified Educator Level 1, you will become more proficient with G Suite tools and learn how to integrate technology meaningfully in your classroom. As a Level 2, you will become more of an expert with G Suite and learn how to integrate a wider range of tools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

“You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.” But the annual state tests that were used in this study don’t measure how much a student has caught up on things he or she should have learned years ago. (The “Math is cumulative,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. In this case, white privilege was put on trial, and white privilege won. Related: Teachers of the world, unite. “As

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I I know how hard we worked at Rainier Beach to get what little money we could, so if we had to give half of that to another school, I’d be upset too,” Green said.

Elementary 145

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I process information and synthesize it to make my own decision how to talk,” she explains. It might also avoid drawing awkward comparisons, like how some human women object that Sophia, a feminine robot citizen of Saudi Arabia, seemingly enjoys more rights there than they do. Some roboticists disagree, though.

Android 106

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

While there are limits to comparisons between the two educational approaches — special education is legally mandated and personalized learning is a loosely defined pedagogical philosophy that takes many forms — some of the cracks that have appeared in personalized learning are not unlike those facing special education.

Personalized Learning 45

Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

” Related: How to help struggling young readers. Kids must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters — phonics. Even though Silva had known little about how children learn to read or how reading should be taught, he’d long been aware that some older students were struggling too.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. The digital tutor asks questions or gives nudges depending on how close the student is to completing the task correctly.

Education 202

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

defined solutions, such as how to study, solve math problems, and eat healthfully. Social media offers a ready platform for comparing oneself to others, a process called social comparison. This is why we teach students to plan, reason, and problem solve (Elias & Tobias, 1996; Kendall & Braswell, 1982).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, Monday, July 30, 2018. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that the launch of I Promise spurred comparisons with the charter and education reform movements, which prize school choice, voucher systems, and competition. “[T]he AP Photo/Phil Long.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2017, it took in fewer than 54,000 and, in 2018, officials reduced the official cap to 45,000 and as of November had taken in about half that number. By comparison, per pupil sending in the United States tops $11,000.) For the 2018 school year, there were 1,000 applications for 90 spots. It spends $1.47

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Edsurge on “How to Protect Education Data When No Systems Are Secure.” From the World Bank blog : “A crisis in learning : 9 charts from the 2018 World Development Report.” Adults Outperformed by Rest of Developed World in Numeracy , New Comparison Finds.” ” Via Education Week : “U.S.

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 2018, D.C. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. An educator reminded the students to consider how to design experiences for all of their peers — not just the kinds of students who earn all A’s (or show up to extracurricular design workshops). That’s the approach that D.C. In February 2022, XQ Institute and D.C.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But at some point, we have to figure out how to clean up this mess. By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.). Flying cars are coming, and you’ll be able to get a nanodegree from Udacity in the subject by 2018. I get that. Journalists.

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71