Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Media literacy’s simplest definition is “the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media in a variety of forms.”[3] The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media.

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MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. Regardless of income, families will have access to top-notch early schooling.

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MindShift

JULY 16, 2020

That’s the top-line recommendation of a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report includes an updated review of the evidence from around the world and a set of recommendations on mitigation strategies for the coronavirus in school settings. The new report makes nine recommendations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. LINDSAY, Calif. — Ushering in a new model.

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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. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Department of Justice found that the district was failing to properly educate multilingual learners — by not providing students with access to the services or supports they need to thrive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

While advocates welcome the national initiative’s goals to boost after-school options, they say challenges remain regarding programming accessibility and sustainability due to barriers that include limited funding and staff shortages. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science. In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

last year, as tallied by a recent federal report. Damage from disasters like flooding, cyclones and wildfires can shutter schools for long periods, a Brookings Institute report says, or cause students to miss school due to illness or damage to their homes. The report authors were particularly concerned about repercussions for girls.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Virtual offerings like these could play a key role in increasing access, which is particularly helpful to youth who have limited resources.

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Waterford

MAY 12, 2020

As schools adapt to teaching in these new circumstances, many educators are in need of resources to make their lessons accessible online. For more in-depth information, check out our full Waterford.org Foundations and Grants Guide 2020. 12 of the Best School Grants in 2020 and How to Apply . You can download our guide here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. Students with access to college counselors and test tutors (read: wealthier students) know this, and many are still using ACT and SAT exams to stand out.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

She has had heart palpitations and difficulty sleeping since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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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. We need them to have student success.”

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

He usually begins the academic year with lessons on written profiles, but in the fall of 2020, he felt that wouldn’t meet the moment. Over 40 percent of students report that they’re sleeping less, and close to 3 in 5 students say they’re more stressed about school than they were before. hours before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. The third graders at A.J.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Araujo’s salary has nearly doubled since she joined the federally-funded Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program in 2020.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

states have permanently closed since the pandemic began, representing a 9 percent decline in the total number of licensed child care providers, according to a new report published this month by Child Care Aware of America. In 2020, the national average price of child care was $10,174 for the year, a 5 percent increase from 2019.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. For example, research by McKinsey & Company found that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to have access to technology. Credit: Courtesy of JOHN SANGIOVANNI.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina. percent to 22.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers. million students were enrolled in after-school programs in 2020 , with millions more seeking access to such programs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On July 28, 2020, before the start of fall extracurriculars, Andrews Independent School District held a town hall in the high school auditorium. When the schools shut down in March 2020, Andrews County was prepared to provide computers for all students. According to the CDC, about 5 percent of school-aged children in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science. This story about data science was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. Principals often lack access to professional development opportunities. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2021

Most reports about Black students’ experiences during the 2020-21 school year focused on challenges their families faced. What was missing in that previous reporting was the acknowledgment that schools were struggling to serve Black students before the pandemic. We’ve started something new that we can’t go away from.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A report from the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education found that among employers in the Bay State with knowledge of vocational schools, “there was general agreement that vocational school graduates are more job-ready than general education or college preparatory high school graduates.”. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

A new Texas study , published June 2020 in the peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association AERA Open found that Black principal candidates were 18 percent less likely to be promoted to principal than equally qualified whites. Apparently, however, Black principal candidates remain at a distinct disadvantage.

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