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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism. This diagnostic will assess a district’s progress to date on the Readiness Framework and provide a customized learning plan for a district to follow when using the Data Ready Playbook.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

What are the documented and potentially long-lasting impacts of students plagiarizing their work? According to a recent study , there was a marked increase globally in paraphrasing and text replacement during the pandemic in 2020 compared to 2019. According to a recent report from the U.S. percent to 49.6 percent to 49.6

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, 2020 has also shown us the importance of addressing another foundational gap—support for educators using technology for effective teaching and learning. Educators tell us that they need more support when it comes to their knowledge of using technology in ways that best accelerate learning.

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Hapara

JUNE 24, 2022

Educators assess and report on outcomes. It is what must be taught, assessed and reported on. This aspect of the craft includes planning, instruction and assessment. Alberta’s professional practice document, the Teaching Quality Standard, reflects these requirements. Government of Alberta (2020).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. This is not whining about working hard at all.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. But it is troubling that the lowest achieving students in our schools lost the most ground between 2020 and 2022. Was that earlier report wrong? student population.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. The current achievement gaps are the difference between the pre-COVID and COVID assessment scores in fall 2022. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

“The big picture takeaway is that learning mirrors pre-pandemic trends,” said Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, which sells assessments to schools to track student progress. Based on the subsequent catch up that NWEA documented in the spring of 2022, upper elementary school students might now be six to seven weeks behind.

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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. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2021

Though many are eager to forget 2020, data scientists will be keeping the year top of mind as we determine whether the pandemic’s impact makes 2020 data anomalous or an indication of more permanent change in higher ed. Essentially, it made sound predictions, but didn’t anticipate rate and scale.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. For 12 years we’ve been documenting their disastrous outcomes, and they’re just resilient.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). According to a report from AASA, superintendents must collaborate with numerous stakeholders as they develop spending plans. But why aren’t schools spending the money?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Researchers at the Erikson Institute, a child-development focused graduate school in Chicago, started the Early Math Collaborative 16 years ago to provide educators with research-backed professional development to help them better teach young students math.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

More than two-thirds of colleges saw additional students apply for academic accommodations during the spring 2020 semester, according to a national survey of 212 colleges that shifted to remote instruction because of the pandemic. There seems to be an environmental factor involved.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The highest rates of non-submission were among American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students (as well as students who did not report their race or ethnicity on Common App), and the lowest rates were among white and Asian students. When filling out financial aid forms, her mother had the needed documents prepared, for example.

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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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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 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. This story about racial bias in edtech was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments. Another 8,000 had a documented exemption, such as no internet access or an inability to leave home to pick up academic paper packets. The MAP tests, however, weren’t free: Clark County paid about $1.9 Students at B.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. The pandemic made a bad situation worse. Reading Remedies.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 28, 2022

Rather than doing this process manually, you can simply enter the names of the ebooks/articles and the page numbers, and Kitaboo would automatically collate the information in a document ready for your use. Automated assessments: Assessments are integral to any teaching process. Digital Publishing / November 9, 2020.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2020, Chicago Public Schools won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. The document said the district was especially concerned about an almost 60% increase in reports of suicidal ideation in students over the previous school year, with about 300 such reports received since August 2021.

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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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ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Another study reported that students who received tutoring outperformed peers who did not receive tutoring by 200 percent on the same state assessment. States can learn from these philanthropists and the well-documented research on tutoring as they consider creating their own tutoring corps.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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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.). Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 19, 2020

I understand that the experience of school in 2020 and being physically isolated could be one of the factors, but it is not limited to that. provides this great document ( you can see the version with live links here ) for things to consider for teaching in 2020. Torrey Trust, Ph.D., Sharing gratitude can improve social bonds.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An initial needs assessment by CCSD found that 70,000 respondents did not have a device, 18,000 did not have Internet access, and 120,000 did not respond at all. The initiative was coordinated with canvassing efforts for political campaigns and the 2020 Census to include Kids Connected materials in their outreach.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a survey last spring, students resoundingly reported that six daily virtual classes was overwhelming. Gallaway, who is Alaska’s 2020 Teacher of the Year , said that she wondered “Can I do this, and can I do it well enough that my students learn something really meaningful and their time isn’t wasted?” instead of 7:45 a.m.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 15, 2022

So when the Virginia governor closed all public schools in March 2020, to say I was devastated would be a huge understatement. For several years, I’ve handed out report cards and that’s it! Many of my routines couldn’t be carried out with social distancing. Batch anything and everything.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nesta is planning 12 ed tech trials during the 2020-21 year with three each quarter. The researchers will document how easy it is for educators to use the software and what problems schools are having with implementation, John explained. It is currently selecting which wares t0 test among the companies that have applied to participate.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

What you need to know about the assessments and grading are: Basic skills that were important to master were given as 20 Learning Targets. Everything was graded on a two-level rubric using the specifications in this document. Timed in-class assessments just aren't worth it. Nearly all the students are CS majors.

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Testpress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We are addressing this going forward by documenting what new features gets released every month. This can help you in assessing your costs and the impact your videos are creating for your students. You can download students report via excel from the member detail page. This is available in the settings page.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has released 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 disruptions. Student growth: Students grew more slowly from 2019 to 2020.

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