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?

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

Flatiron co-founder Adam Enbar will remain CEO of the company, which will operate as an independent business under Carrick. Forbes reported that the company also sold the assets of WeGrow, its private preschool, back to WeWork co-founder Rebekah Neumann, who led the division as its CEO. This was not the only school for sale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Credit: Patrick Wall for The Hechinger Report Now, Louisiana is one of a few states seeking to combine its data sets in order to track students from preschool into college and careers. Education Department spokeswoman said — despite a law requiring states to report students’ post-CTE outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Joanna Smith, founder of an ed-tech company that helps schools curb chronic absenteeism, was thinking about how to pivot her company to provide services in a remote learning setting as many brick and mortar schools transitioned online last year. Subscribe today! Start from what is good teaching and learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA).

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While there’s no comprehensive data on how many schools lack air conditioning, some 41 percent of school districts responding to a 2020 Government Accountability Office survey reported that the majority of their school buildings needed heating and cooling upgrades. Many school systems are gravely unprepared for a warming world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In early 2020, the Department of Education, in collaboration with several other federal agencies, launched CTE CyberNet, an intensive professional development program for K-12 educators that would meet in person over the summer. It’s definitely become a huge thing in education here in our in our city,” she said. “As

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

While the country didn’t see the sudden mass exodus of teachers that some feared, the toll appeared clear — teachers reported experiencing depression at three times the rate of other adults. Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 teachers into four buckets.

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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. Oftentimes tech companies didn’t really seem to understand the experience of Black and Brown students in the classroom,” Hebbar said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In 2020, an estimated 19.5 The company is also currently turning a profit, according to Carrera. The company has changed hands several times. The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Out on Capitol Hill, she warned, the feds are “itching to take this money away from us.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Math is cumulative,” Joel Rose, the chief executive officer of New Classrooms, a nonprofit company that sells math software to schools, once told me. The company borrowed a page from corporate America. Thousands of classrooms elected to try the just-in-time review approach in the fall of 2020. Alves puts 21 papers in 7 piles.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A Canada-based company the district hired started scouring public posts for threats and “cries for help” last month. In 2020, Chicago Public Schools won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Two companies, Safer Schools Together and GoGuardian, submitted proposals. New social media program draws on pilot’s lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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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. There’s precedent: As of 2021, none of the University of California schools accept or even consider score reports of any kind.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. 40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One December 2021 analysis by consulting firm McKinsey & Company noted that students in majority Black schools are five months behind where they usually are in both math and reading while students in majority white schools are now just two months behind where they have been historically. million to 3.3

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. Norwood Elementary School. So there was a representative from Facebook parent company there, Google, Amazon, Air Con Global and Charles Schwab, and it was this dialog about preparing students and the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

As the calendar flips to a new year, we had reporters sit down with students in four cities to give us their predictions of and aspirations for the future. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. 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.

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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. For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. They are patient and unbiased.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Her Dallas elementary school extended its school year in an effort to help students make up for lost time.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. And, among the students who needed tutoring the most because they had failed a class with a D or an F in the fall of 2020, only 12 percent ever logged on.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. On Thursday, Piia Pehap, one of MIND’s Education Success Managers, got the honor of joining a session with several first graders from South Clearfield Elementary in Utah.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But Lynn, right now, you’re excited about what you’re calling TL 2020. What is TL 2020? TL 2020 is our teaching and learning initiative in Salisbury Township School District. We spent quite a bit of time visioning for TL 2020, and continuing to evolve our vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Screenshot from Zoom interview with Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report.). Salvatore’s employer is Paper, which is based in Montreal, Canada and says it is the largest online tutoring company in the United States.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 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. In addition, many of the district’s elementary schools used Title 1 funds to purchase 1:1 devices for students as young as kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

In February 2020, Jacqueline Adam-Taylor accepted a new job almost 2,000 miles away from her home in Springfield, Massachusetts. Carnegie is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). The coaches — from companies including LINC Learning, InnovateEDU, and Afton Partners — were able to offer a wide lens of resources and knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A September 2020 meta-analysis found that student achievement tended to improve after a school turnaround. One idea has been to bring in a new principal and make drastic changes to turn the school around quickly like the way corporate turnaround artists revive a bankrupt company. But not always. Education experts argue over this a lot.

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