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. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

Dropout 100

Dropout Policies Data Report 100

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2023

conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. In her job, she helps libraries, companies and organizations strategize programs, services and strategies in areas related to these topics and many others. Please also join this Library 2.0

Libraries 63

Libraries Conference Advocacy Social Media 63

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For the second time in two months, Lexia Learning, a Rosetta Stone company (NYSE: RST) has had two of its literacy programs recognized as standouts in a prominent edtech award program. The company’s highly-regarded Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) was also named a finalist in the category for Best Literacy App or Tool.

Adaptive Learning 52

Adaptive Learning Tools Blended Learning EdTech 52

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. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”.

E-rate 48

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 48

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

For more information about Discovery Education’s digital resources and professional learning services, visit www.discoveryeducation.com , and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit news.prudential.com. About Afterschool Alliance.

Education 56

Education Social Media Professional Learning Resources 56

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

EdTechTeam is a California Benefit Corporation , dedicated to effecting positive change in schools, and currently supporting a number of advocacy programs including the Our Voice Academy and the nonprofit Student Voice Foundation. The title of her session alone resonated with me. FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS.

Education 71

Education Social Media EdTech Advocacy 71

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Jim Lynch from TechSoup for Libraries , Kate Laughlin from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries , and The School of Information at San José State University. network to be kept informed of future events. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

Libraries 56

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Jim Lynch from TechSoup for Libraries , Kate Laughlin from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries , and The School of Information at San José State University. network to be kept informed of future events. This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Jim Lynch from TechSoup for Libraries , Kate Laughlin from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries , and The School of Information at San José State University. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

This event is being organized in partnership with Jim Lynch from TechSoup for Libraries , Kate Laughlin from the Association for Rural & Small Libraries , and The School of Information at San José State University. While at OCLC Jennifer helped to develop and then manage the Geek the Library advocacy program.

Libraries 36

Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 36

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

Training 178

Training Classroom Report Groups 178

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As the teacher librarian at RCCBA, Michelle also teaches elective courses in technology and information literacy skills to her students. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 This school year, more than 54,000 Cherry Creek students–the entire district–can access teletherapy with Hazel Health because of Michelle’s advocacy and ambitious vision.

Edmentum 97

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The company, which is based in Oakland, counts LinkedIn and PathSource among its competitors. They are a collection of all the documents the company has compiled on a single scientific concept. For example, a folio on Cushing Syndrome would gather information such as medical trials and patents on the hormonal disorder.

Personalized Learning 121

Personalized Learning Learning Company Policies 121

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

He’d spent his career building and selling companies in various industries, including finance, telecommunications, software and consumer retail. Drawing on what he knew best, Marwell ran his nonprofit with the urgency, pacing and risk-taking that is more typical of for-profit companies.

Broadband 108

Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry 108

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manheim Central School District (PA) Superintendent Dr. Peter Aiken said they partnered with a company to educate their staff about email threats. The company periodically sends phishing tests to staff; those that get caught clicking on the emails are given remedial lessons.

Strategy 53

Strategy Student Data Privacy Data Policies 53

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. 14 different emails, all containing potentially vital information.

Policies 141

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 141

edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Gathering Data to Inform Teaching and Learning. Student engagement suffered.

Learning 95

Learning Data Outcomes Survey 95

MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. There’s no excuse in 2020 for the books in your classroom and the books in your library not to be reflective of the population in the U.S. The boy’s father, it turns out, is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

Classroom 69

Classroom Libraries Groups Industry 69

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. So there’s even less information to go on in terms of where kids are and what they need.”

Khan Academy 57

Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

District IT offices were taking on the same tasks as Fortune 500 companies without the ability to implement them as effectively. The detailed data helps administrators make informed purchasing decisions. Elasticity: User licenses, storage, and services can be added and subtracted as needed.

EdTech 40

EdTech PowerMyLearning Software BYOD 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. By 2020, Steiner wants Northern Cass to be the district hosting visitors, as a mentor to other schools mulling the idea of nixing grade levels. “On

Report 111

Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

Education 145

Education Advocacy Policies System 145

MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

Education 49

Education Advocacy System Policies 49

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? 2020 = 125,000; 2040 = 185,000+. 2020 = 75,000; 2040 = 110,000+. 2020 = 11,000; 2040 = 13,000. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations.

Education 100

Education Secondary STEM Policies 100

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Campbell’s loan is a tiny fraction of the more than $30 million owed to Florida Career College’s parent company, the International Education Corporation. The company doesn’t care whether she and thousands of others ever pay it back. Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director, Center for Responsible Lending. Hidden Debt Trap.

Advocacy 117

Advocacy Company Report Policies 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Capella University, owned by the same company as Strayer, is running ads promoting its flexibility in “uncertain times” and promising would-be transfer students that they can earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as a year. Capella and Strayer have also reported increases in visits to their websites and requests for information.

Industry 87

Industry Company Advocacy Data 87

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

LOTS of information below! Keynote speaker information follows the session information. This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. Registration (free) is required.

Conference 72

Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs . Many states have resorted to enforcement actions, lawsuits and new laws to crack down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students.

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). From the Coursera blog : “Building India ’s Workforce for 2020.”

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Cleveland State had added $600 in collection and late fees and eventually, as required by state law, had passed the debt on to the state attorney general’s office, which then sent it to a for-profit debt collection company and then to a private law firm. He got a bill from the agency in 2017 informing him he owed $12,689.

Policies 138

Policies Company Report Advocacy 138

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

As if applying for financial aid wasn’t difficult enough already, it appears that the IRS Data Retrieval Tool, which pulls tax information into the FAFSA app, “ will be unavailable for several weeks.” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.”

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

When Beatriz López taught in a Texas middle school, she and her colleagues supplemented the limited information on climate change she found in textbooks with online resources and other materials. “The information presented was based on the most current research available at the time.”. Limited information.

Pearson 128

Pearson Guidelines Company Study 128