The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, nine U.S. 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. Since 2020, nine U.S. Sadie Dittenber from Idaho Education News contributed to this report.

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Neo LMS

JULY 21, 2020

A version of this post was originally published on February 4, 2020, in Open Access Government. No lost documents anymore! Analytics and reporting. Teachers can further sort student learning data into comprehensible reports. NEO Guide: Analytics and reporting tools. Self-paced learning. Data is powerful.

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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. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012. In 2020, the U.S. Families are our partners,” she said. “We

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 In October 2020, a little more than two- thirds of K-12 principals estimated that their students with disabilities would perform somewhat or much lower than they had before the pandemic. An IEP is generally a helpful document if you want to understand a student’s learning needs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. The Hechinger Report has also found that college students are struggling with basic math.) grade points from 3.02

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

To set the foundation for technology-empowered learning during and beyond the pandemic, education leaders are actively tackling internet and device access issues to narrow the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty. Families cannot afford to wait. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism. Attendance issues were exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as the district shifted to distance learning and students struggled to access technology and actively participate in learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. Related: Thousands of kids are missing school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2021

Online learning has untapped potential for students across the nation, and while the COVID-19 pandemic forced classrooms online in early 2020, that doesn’t mean learning became more innovative and personalized. Lessons are accessible for review on-demand and can be paused or restarted as needed.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

But in other instances, institutions seized the unusual opportunity to encourage professors to redesign courses to be more accessible to people with varied needs. And 67 percent of institutions reported that they reconsidered pre-existing accommodations for students due to the shift to online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. High school seniors are filling out more financial aid forms than they were in the midst of the pandemic autumn of 2020, when there were record high drops in completions. FAFSA renewal rates are strong, up 8 percent through December 2020 compared to a year earlier. But as of Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2023

This story was produced by The Associated Press as part of a series, The Math Problem, from the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight  newsrooms that is documenting the math crisis facing schools and highlighting progress. They’re not going to have the same access.” The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. School documents were being created, shared, and stored in both shared drives and individual drives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It’s difficult to get good internet access in Garrett County, Maryland. Alongside four other school communities, we selected it because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and officials identified Covid-19 cases in under 5 percent of the student population.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

The technology includes tools for keeping track of important deadlines and documents, while offering applicants key insights into what each college admissions committee is looking for. With the platform, a greater number of students will have access to the best resources regardless of where they live. Applications rose by 21.3%

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” This 2020 review of the research confirms that. Some racked up considerably more hours. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. Compared to applicants, non-submitters were also less likely to report having a parent with a college degree.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today announced the upcoming release of How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement , a report detailing the learning effects associated with COVID-19 school closures. Is there a greater variability in the scores overall?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. But that’s not the same as saying that employers no longer value college credentials, despite overhyped media reports that employers are “throwing out” degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The following report is part of collaboration between NBCNews.com and The Hechinger Report focused on examining Black and Latino enrollment in flagship universities. In 2020, just 6 percent of freshmen who enrolled at the university were Black, compared with 36 percentof the state’s publichigh school graduates. ATHENS, Ga.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. Lawrence County, Tennessee, where its three high schools recently joined a college access effort that is closing the rural-nonrural education gap. serving more than 3,000 students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. Namely, the number of digital libraries dedicated to specific subject and purposes is constantly increasing, allowing students to gain access to primary sources.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

Those overseeing student foreign exchange programs should be aware that students may face unpredictable circumstances, travel restrictions, challenges in returning home or accessing health care while abroad. — APS Physics (@APSphysics) March 1, 2020. Yang (@Dali_Yang) March 3, 2020. repeated boldface in original).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Among the biggest players are online giants including the nonprofit Southern New Hampshire University, which tax documents show spent $144 million on advertising and promotion in 2019. Johns Hopkins reported spending $29.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn. Credit: Amanda J.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Source: Learning Heroes, Parents 2020: COVID-19 Closures - A Redefining Moment for Students, Parents and Schools “From their new front-row seat and despite significant challenges, parents are engaging deeply in their children's remote schooling and will show up differently next school year,” write the authors. It’s a priority for many U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) Administration and Leadership How is all this being negotiated with teachers unions? Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 19, 2021

Important new quantitative research documents concerns relating to the future of our profession and implications for those we serve. The Perspectives Report. The report’s Executive Summary (pp. We now have the data. The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? , Poster rom Kachel, Debra E.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers. Graphic from, “Held Down and Held Back: Systematically Delayed Principal Promotions by Race and Gender,” AERA Open, June 2020. This principal-student mismatch matters for a lot of reasons.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

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. The post Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Black students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

Public colleges in Massachusetts have sent to collection agencies the overdue accounts of 11,719 students, according to a GBH News-Hechinger Report investigation. Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. The University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Curriculum Associates , pulling from i-Ready diagnostics data, released reports on what’s happening with unfinished learning related to the COVID-19 pandemic. ELMO’s document cameras offer various ways to help students visualize objects and see in detail. ELMO demonstrated the ELMO Ecosystem of Classroom Solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Credit: Valerie Plesh for The Hechinger Report But the remote lessons she was teaching to second graders at a Silver Spring, Maryland, elementary school didn’t resemble the in-person classes where she learned her craft in college as a student teacher.

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