Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

Dodson was the Executive Director of SETDA from May, 2019 until her sudden passing on July 22, 2020. “Karen championed an innovative digital equity project in Virginia that culminated in the first ever Digital Equity Summit in 2019. Richardson was well known for her commitment to student digital equity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Using open-records requests, U.S.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. After graduating this spring, she plans to transfer to nearby Western Washington University, where talks are underway to expand recovery supports thanks in part to advocacy from students in the Breaking Free club.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

For example, the larger font sizes on your slide deck benefit those with low vision but also those sitting at the back of the room, who forgot their glasses, or who have a headache. For example, our accessible meeting standards already need an update to reflect our new learnings about color and contrast. Own the labor.

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Education Advocacy Accessibility Policies 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 30, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2023

Leading by example, he never stopped loving the classroom or lost his passion for teaching, and he maintained his role as teacher in his capacity as Principal. Under his nearly 20-year tenure as Principal of Saunders Trades and Technical High School, Mr. Mazzola challenged all staff and students to maximize their full potential.

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Buncee

JANUARY 11, 2019

You will see examples of Newsletters, reminders, and green screen backgrounds used in Andy's Class. Monday, January 28, 2019: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM. With creative advocacy and branding, you can bring your library story to life, while leading within your school community and throughout the world like never before. Leticia Citizen.

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Advocacy Future Ready Libraries Blended Learning 43

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. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 102

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Synchrony, for example, now offers 60 days of backup child care, up from 10 days of backup care prior to the pandemic, says Angie Hu, vice president of corporate communication and public relations. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. OpenStax Director of Research Philip Grimaldi and other authors asked the same questions in their 2019 article Do open educational resources improve student learning? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. For example, in Robinson et al.

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

Learning 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Gale’s own example of Form Energy coming to town speaks directly to this crisis: Good jobs are arriving in the region, and yet there still aren’t enough child care spots for the families who need them.

Policies 141

Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 141

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries.

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Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 73

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

With ed-tech spending expected to reach $55B by 2019 as predicted by market research firm Technavio, schools and districts should ensure they can produce carefully-crafted technology plans that outline how technology will work successfully in classrooms. . • The five most common challenges of launching new technology. •

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How To Advocacy Tools Survey 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

In early May 2019, Savannah graduated from Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Examples like these show that campus leaders can drive substantive change in how their institutions serve students with disabilities. But we must not allow external forces to slow this progress.

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Learning Advocacy Report Secondary 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries.

Libraries 63

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 63

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

A sample contract on the Back a Boiler website, for example, notes that “ This is not a loan or credit.”. At the University of Utah, just 121 students have participated in the school’s ISA program since it started in 2019, at a university that enrolled more than 34,000 last year, Rebecca Walsh, a university spokesperson, said by email.

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Company Report Survey Industry 70

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Sean Reardon shared several examples of how the new tool might be used in research with the paper Is Separate Still Unequal? You may also be interested in the recently released 2019 SAT Suite of Assessments Program Results. The result is a national perspective on the geography of educational opportunity.

Education 41

Education Data Advocacy Assessment 41

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

For example, after South Carolina passed its own version of the law, less than 10 percent of the more than 4,000 third graders who failed the test were retained in the law’s first year. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Because I email, I call.

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Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. Each of the school’s 327 students is assigned to one of the three social workers.

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Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 125

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All told, according to National Education Policy Center data, more than 330,000 students attended virtual schools in 2019-20, roughly 60 percent of them at for-profits. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.). Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc., Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states.

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Joyce : Thanks, Deb.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Kaplan Policies Report System 141

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

In addition, all kindergarten through third grade classrooms have classroom libraries with age-appropriate reading materials, with all fourth and fifth grade classrooms gaining libraries by the end of the 2019-2020 school year. Are we doing enough to make our examples of effective practice truly visible to the public?

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Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Example of a letter sent home to students in a California experiment that failed to boost attendance rates. Lee, and Todd Rogers Example of a letter that didn’t motivate students to attend school more in a California experiment. . at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

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Study Groups Advocacy Conference 82

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. That was one very acute example of how critical the school systems are to the health of our communities.”

Training 148

Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Someone with the disability might omit short words such as “and” and “the” while reading aloud, for example, or read “dog” as “god”—even if they speak normally in conversation. So in 2019, Bates began to push for an individualized education program, or IEP, that would delineate specific reading supports for her older son.

Learning 144

Learning Study Report Elementary 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

CU Boulder’s Program in Exploratory Studies began in 2019 for some students and was opened to all students last year. CU Boulder, for example, offers 85 majors, minors and certificate programs. About a quarter of all new undergraduates signed up. “I I tell people you’ll know when you’re in the right major.

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Survey Study Report Advocacy 142

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

By the academic year ending in 2019, Raven’s ELL population represented 16.6 For example, my ELL student who lit the trash can on fire witnessed his father’s murder. Suzanne was awarded the National PTA’s Life Achievement Award in May 2007, the highest honor from the nation’s largest child advocacy organization.

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System Learning Advocacy Elementary 83

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. But counting kids who qualify for free or reduced price lunches had also been the way we tracked student poverty. There was some concern that school districts could mistakenly be reclassified as 100 percent low income overnight.

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Data Analysis Advocacy Policies 89

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

Let me give you an example. To take the simplest example of how this mask conceals more than it reveals, consider that even the scale used to translate a percentage into a letter grade can vary district to district in the same state, or even school to school in the same district. (For That's eight percent more effort." "Oh

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