Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

percent for students who started in fall 2014, according to a 2020 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. The national six-year college completion rate was 60.1

Advocacy 176

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

New Orleans is part of a growing trend of local communities passing ballot measures to expand access to child care. The number of parents who reported missing work because of child care surged in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak; it has yet to recede to pre-pandemic levels.

Report 111

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

UDL 163

UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 163

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

‘Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. 2019 and 2020 were unconventional years that literally threw the world into disarray,” she says. This was already well known.

Report 139

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights.

Meeting 145

Meeting Training Advocacy Accessibility 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

What if, as faculty, you were leveraging the power that you have to identify and push for solutions, changes in how the system operates? What if, as faculty, you were leveraging the power that you have to identify and push for solutions, changes in how the system operates?” “A lot of us were in that situation at one point or another.”

Advocacy 168

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key. Whereas the U.S.

Technology 145

Technology EdTech Education Mobility 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. Nearly a year ago now, in my corner of the country—Multnomah County, Ore., which encompasses the city of Portland—something remarkable happened. We did get the balance right.

Policies 174

Policies Advocacy Strategy Groups 174

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

NCDE hopes that this, and its other collaborative projects with school librarians, with help professionals build capacity as local systemic digital inclusion leaders. For years, Robert has been an advocate for scaling a systemic approach to digital equity. It also means access to school librarians. Ballard; Cassandra G.

Advocacy 81

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

Advocacy 137

Advocacy Data Trends Report 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

Digital Divide 113

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. Most recently, early childhood education won big during the 2020 election , with voters in Colorado and Portland, Ore.,

Policies 154

Policies Study Handbook Advocacy 154

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

But that system only works if homelessness liaisons know where these students are. The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I I think that’s a really important part of this: There really isn’t another system out there that’s meeting their needs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

Advocacy 153

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

Yet the mistakes have been numerous and serious enough that high school counselors and advocates for college access now fear that promising students from the Class of 2024 will end up not going to college at all. You’re looking at these various pathways with no idea which ones are accessible to you.”

Data 55

Data Advocacy Report System 55

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

Report 144

Report Meeting Groups Data 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. But “one of the things we found when we started to look at the data was that what we were providing access to was debt.

Dropout 118

Dropout Report Advocacy Accessibility 118

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 million students were enrolled in after-school programs in 2020 , with millions more seeking access to such programs. But this is a systemic issue.”.

Company 117

Company Elementary Advocacy Report 117

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

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. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

Dropout 110

Dropout Policies Data Report 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Others, like College of the Holy Cross, have been able to rely on systems they built before the pandemic to help students through a particularly difficult time. Trans students also often need therapists to help them access gender affirming care, like surgery and hormone replacement therapy, with letters and other documentation, Miller said.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Groups Report Policies 100

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka is her middle name. Where did they go?

Policies 85

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 85

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Back in 2020 I was invited to write a very brief piece about how OER research might inform pandemic practice. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER?

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 153

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2023

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. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

Libraries 70

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 70

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2023

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. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

Libraries 68

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 68

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Our students are granted the opportunity to flourish with access to knowledge, resources, the world of literature and the creation of school community. Approximately 50 schools have libraries with catalog systems, and all schools have a subscription to PA Power Library, which makes libraries virtually accessible to all schools.

Resources 106

Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. You can’t just put together a program and expect parents to show up. Don’t just translate a website and think you’ve done something.”.

Groups 104

Groups Advocacy Report Study 104

edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

A survey of 30 superintendents and CTOs from rural districts revealed four key challenges to implementing technology: broadband access, funding, people and understanding the “why.” The program will begin in the 2019-2020 school year. About CoSN. cosn.org.

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Broadband Advocacy Survey Technology 44

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020. The early finish hasn’t changed the organization’s planned closing date of August 2020. And Marwell wants all of them to experience the types of teaching and learning high-speed internet access facilitates.

E-rate 52

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 52

edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. This involves eliminating and dismantling systemic and systematic discriminatory practices and services that prevent students from receiving a premier educational experience.

Differentiated Instruction 84

Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 84

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With access to Discovery Education Experience our schools now have the game changing content needed.”. “A Along with Discovery Education, Schools That Can Newark, and NBoE we are making math more accessible, engaging, and meaningful,” said Sarah Keh, Vice President of Inclusive Solutions at Prudential Financial.

Education 56

Education Social Media Professional Learning Resources 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

on March 18, 2020. School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Mackey Pendergrast.

Learning 73

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This week, the FAST Fund named its 2019-2020 cohort: professors Ryan Gamba of California State University at East Bay, Karr? The hope is that this approach will raise awareness among students about other support they might have access to and also raise awareness among college officials of the needs of those students. “I

Advocacy 142

Advocacy Guidelines Accessibility Tools 142

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Understanding ESSER, ESF-REM, and GEER. Arati has an M.Ed.

EdTech 97

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

We no longer have the luxury of going to college for college’s sake,” said Yolanda Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America. Related: As students fill summer courses, many ask: Why aren’t all colleges open in the summers? Students need to get out there and work. Not everyone is ready for three-year degrees.

Survey 89

Survey Course Report Advocacy 89

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A.

Secondary 63

Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 63

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

Industry 102

Industry Report Company Training 102

N2Y

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For the return to school in 2020, special education may have looked very different from past years. These should be easily accessible to share with your students as needed on the playground. taking system (i.e., Use a visual checklist or activity system to let them know what to expect in each class. advocacy skills.

Strategy 52

Strategy Advocacy System Personalized Learning 52