The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms. For the past 25 years, U.S.

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Analysis Education Study Policies 122

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

She recently co-authored a report on how charter schools effectively supported students with disabilities during the pandemic and is blogging about the topic. “If They were empathetic toward schools in Spring 2020 as educators scrambled to make remote learning happen, she adds. What if they have a medical issue and can’t wear a mask?

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Technology Education Analysis Meeting 179

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. percent to 22.5

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UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 164

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report So, what happened in Tennessee?

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Policies Report Advocacy Elementary 99

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience in K-12 schools, both online and in-person, in its 2020 State of Engagement Report. Being consistent in classroom management. Because the COVID-19 Pandemic has restructured U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Instructional Materials Training Advocacy Elementary 113

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Take Chile, for instance. 75) and China (54). should copy Chile.

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Technology EdTech Education Mobility 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 139

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. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 Subscribe today!

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Company Elementary Advocacy Report 108

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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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 108

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2021

Partially in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, state licensing rules had changed in December 2020. Over the last 10 months, as part of EdSurge’s research and reporting project to document the impact of COVID-19 on the early childhood workforce, we’ve heard from many early childhood educators and providers like Briggs.

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Education Policies Industry Advocacy 172

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Preschool classrooms with behavioral consultation services, such as Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), have recorded significantly lower expulsion rates. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 195

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. 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.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020. Mississippi Learning. I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.” Your stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. that would keep them in the classroom. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research found evidence of significant levels of unfinished learning, particularly in math, however, gaps between current achievement and pre-pandemic achievement have not increased since the end of 2020-21, which may indicate the impacts of the pandemic are stabilizing. .

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Outcomes Education Advocacy Policies 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

Credit: The Hechinger Report Lori Carrell, chancellor of the University of Minnesota Rochester, with the Mayo Clinic visible outside her window. Credit: The Hechinger Report The models vary. Department of Education reports. Credit: The Hechinger Report Demand for summer classes also speaks to this desire.

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Survey Course Report Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

The Los Angeles Unified School District, where Lola was enrolled, reported a 14 percent drop, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. The Los Angeles Unified School District reported a 14 percent drop in kindergarten enrollment for the 2020–21 school year, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. This has given Phillips a rosier outlook.

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Learning Elementary Data Report 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

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Groups Advocacy Report Study 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year. A recent report from a State Education Department task force recommends such a limit in all but the rarest of circumstances. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week.

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Report Survey Data Comparison 91

MindShift

MAY 28, 2020

students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. The nation’s schools shut down in-person learning in mid-March, and only a few states, including Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, have experimented with opening classroom doors since then.

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Survey Advocacy Learning Report 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read. Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. Reading Remedies.

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Elementary Report Training Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. AUSTIN, Texas — Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for help.

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Education Assessment Advocacy Report 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad.

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Training Meeting E-rate Groups 93

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report Photo by Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Who is the school board really representing?” said Mendoza.

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Kaplan Policies Report System 140

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. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. The original OLI-Statistics course comes to mind here, as reported by Lovett ( 2008 ).

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Television coverage included this report by NBC10’s Stephanía Jiménez: For me, one of the most powerful moments was Kayla Johnson’s poignant recognition of her privilege , as a student who attended Philadelphia schools that still had librarians through her whole K12 experience.

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Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These new digital resources will play a critical role in continuing each students’ academic progress on any device, whether at home or in the classroom. This includes Prudential Financial classroom visits and the Prudential Financial Actuarial Career Exploration (PACE) career mentorship program for students interested in math careers.

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Education Social Media Professional Learning Resources 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

on March 18, 2020. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Even in a district that’s able to send every kid home with a laptop, you’re still trying to adapt a model that’s been designed for a classroom situation.”

Learning 66

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 66

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. The shift came to the school ahead of a statewide deadline to have proficiency-based graduation requirements in place for all of Vermont’s 2020 high school graduates. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). It’s better than it was.” MONTPELIER, Vt.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 81

N2Y

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many parents look forward to the first progress reports that arrive as fall ushers in the hustle and bustle of a new school year. Comments on IEP progress reports usually include language such as Mastered, Making Progress, Some Progress, Not Addressed, or Needs Improvement to describe advancement toward accomplishing IEP goals.

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Meeting Advocacy Report Examples 52

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Go behind the story: Listen to an interview with reporter Emily Tate about her visit to a school working to teach some of the youngest victims of the opioid crisis. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. INSIDE CLASSROOM B , children are just starting to arrive for the day.

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Training Classroom Report Groups 178

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

Jennifer Bergland has written about the companion bill in the House, HB 6, at the TCEA Advocacy blog here and here if you would like more detailed information. According to the TEA Progress Report on the 2006-2020 Long Range Plan for Technology, released in December 2010, 59.3% Another 37.8% However, when the 2.1%

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Instructional Materials Advocacy Accessibility Resources 92

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. advocacy educational technology instructional materials legislation Texas Texas legislature textbook txedbudget' It is reposted here with permission. Even if you are reading this late in the day Tuesday, call your rep!

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Instructional Materials Advocacy Exercises Technology 61

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Without the historic level of operational funding that was distributed monthly to child care programs across the United States through September 2023, many providers are experiencing staff departures and shouldering rising costs, leading many to increase tuition for families and some to close classrooms — or worse, close their doors entirely.

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Education Advocacy Survey Libraries 204