edWeb.net

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Large school districts in different parts of the United States have now developed systematic ways to increase diverse students’ access to advanced courses, and the districts are also providing other important aspects of an equitable education that prepares the students for 21st century careers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Wed, 10/30/2019 - 15:13. School districts collect gobs of data, much of which is required by law. Every state has laws about data retention. For schools and districts, losing data without the means to recover it is a major issue. Losing all of the district’s data and having a major disaster topped the list.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. In October 2019, they received a certification in Learning Articulate Storyline 360 from LinkedIn.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2020

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment. Is it a career guidance issue?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. Our higher education system formed around libraries.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Analyzing data from Burning Glass , Wharton professor Matthew Bidwel found a diminishing number of entry-level jobs requiring a degree. It is top of mind for CEOs; the percentage of them who are “extremely” or “somewhat” concerned about lack of available talent increased from 56 percent in 2011 to 79 percent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2023

“My teacher kind of pulled me aside and was like, ‘Hey, you need to go to your guidance counselor, there’s a little bit of complications with signing you up for this class,’” said Maqueo Toledo, who is now a college access fellow at the Education Trust in Tennessee. Six states block undocumented students from accessing in-state tuition.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’re clawing back some ground from where we were in November, but 9 percent is still a massive number,” said Bill DeBaun, director of data and evaluation at the nonprofit National College Attainment Network, who tracks FAFSA completion rates every week. School is the place where students have internet access. The current 9.4

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The newest voices in that choir come from Bill and Melinda Gates, who declared that “ textbooks are becoming obsolete ” in their 2019 annual letter. Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Purdue University’s online arm offers a certificate for people who want to become legal secretaries or assistants; new education department data shows that three years after completion, their median salary is $18,495. The [data] does not reflect the individual circumstances that affect our graduates. “The Just don’t try to quit.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. Based on these trends, the D.C. Before the pandemic, 14 out of every 100 ninth graders were predicted to hit that important milestone.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Federal data show that less than 30 percent of rural residents age 25 and up have an associate degree or higher; more than 43 percent of urban residents do. Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

A few months before the pandemic, Johns had seen a presentation about AHN’s Chill Project, launched in 2019, and longed to bring it to her district. Nearly three times as many students access therapy now than before the district partnered with the Chill Project, according to Johns, the superintendent.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Provide access to integrated wraparound services and supports, which should include partnering with community officials like law enforcement and hospitals to ensure that students receive support wherever and whenever they need it. The key to all of this, said Dr. Smith, is to think of data as a flashlight and not a hammer.

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edWeb.net

JULY 29, 2022

The research revealed that processes and systems in the adult learner/worker ecosystem did not support the flow of data between stakeholders and frontline workers. A key finding of the report was that fragmentation in data systems prevents people from having agency over their learning and employment data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. times the rate of white students, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Civil Liberties Union. Millions of students still face access issues.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has caused worrisome enrollment declines at many institutions, early data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show. At Whitman,the pandemic reaffirmed the value of a new initiative we launched in 2019: our Early Financial Aid Guarantee. Related: Tuition Tracker: Interactive search tool.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Children are more likely to graduate from high school, go on to earn post-secondary degrees, stay out of the criminal system and own assets. Early childhood educators of color, in particular, are clear-eyed about the ways in which the higher education deck can be stacked against their equitable access and career advancement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2021

Generally if fewer students are taking dual enrollment that’s likely to be a net negative for college access and enrollment after a student graduates high school,” Perry predicted. Mercedes Pour, director of college access, Maine Community College System.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

We've been working with a couple of different equity consultants and looking at our achievement data, discipline data, who's participating in our extracurriculars, and looking at our policies to make sure that we're eliminating obstacles to AP classes and access to extracurriculars or anything along those lines.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2021

And during the 2019-2020 school year alone, there were 75 school shootings with casualties in both public and private elementary and secondary school districts in the United States with an additional 37 school shootings that did not result in any casualties.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 13, 2020

Families who have lost jobs or taken pay-cuts may not be able to pay tuition for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. When federal or state funds are distributed to districts, private school students in their purview are to receive “equitable services,” just as they would under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?”

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a think tank that evaluates teacher preparation programs, doesn’t collect data related to remote learning or online education, says its director of strategic communications. But she thinks it’s a great resource for educators, especially because it is open-access and freely available.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2019

24/7 Access. Google Drive : Google Drive allows you to store your files securely and access them from any device, as well as create, open and edit your files. It is great for data analysis and organization. G Suite allows us to control access by user groups. 19, 2019 , and will close on Dec. Collaborative.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

But as the term is popularly applied today, it refers to computer programming that allows machines to learn from experience, adjust to new data inputs and perform human-like tasks. The test is scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2019, nationwide.) Think Amazon’s Echo smart speaker enabled by the AI software platform Alexa.)

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

3of October of 2018) – The Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has launched a new partnership with Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for Primary and Secondary classrooms, supporting Me Conecto para Aprender (I Connect to Learn), an initiative of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

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. The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The 19-year-old St.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Parents and other community members have access to a range of classes through the school district, including nutrition and English as a second language, which is one of the most popular. The district provides a variety of services to families and other community members in return, making the participants partners in the education process.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

Make it a collaborative process and gather data from everyone involved. His work in continuous improvement focuses on issues of equity and access. His interests include strategic creation and use of data systems as well as supports for public school employees. Examine adult practices. Dr. Charoscar Coleman. About the Host.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2021

million through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Kuhfeld noted many disadvantaged children, who were unable to access testing because of technological or other barriers, were missing from the data. Harrisonburg spent around $416,000 on K-8 summer school and enrichment programs in 2019.

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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 Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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