The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

To attend ourBRIDGE for Kids, students need to meet one simple requirement — they must attend classes during the regular school day before arriving. But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Now a small study of teachers across nine states finds that this hybrid solution is the worst way to teach because it’s exhausting for teachers to toggle back and forth between the two modes and all students appear to learn less this way. We’re saying it’s hard for teachers to meet the needs of students.”. It’s completely absurd.”.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Team members at MIND Research Institute , creators of ST Math , have summarized the Department’s call below, and added further resources for educators seeking coronavirus-related funding opportunities for distance learning measures. Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund , or ESSERF, $13.2

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. He was no longer enrolled, they said. Tameka is her middle name.

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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

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. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

And the county’s southern edge meets the National Radio Quiet Zone , where cell and internet service is restricted in order to preserve data collection for West Virginia’s Green Bank Telescope. Spring 2020: Combatting remote challenges, in-person preparation. Spring 2020: Combatting remote challenges, in-person preparation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

This measured dip in performance, according to the stories, can be attributed to the attention-grabbing phenomenon called “learning loss,” a post-pandemic term that has become common parlance in educational circles. But what learning did students actually lose?

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MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

“And they get frustrated and give up before they even try… My children were required to have four Zoom meetings a day with different teachers, and all of them assigned work. April told lawmakers the poor Wi-Fi at her hotel discouraged her kids from participating in online learning. ” Copyright 2020 NPR.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Or they do it in near-empty classrooms, broadcasting over Zoom and Google Meet. My last live musical experience was in Los Angeles in January 2020, at last year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, which attracted 16.5 Related: OPINION — With many schools choosing online learning, how can we keep the music alive? million viewers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I miss meeting kids from all over the city. And, unlike current freshmen, I had the ability to meet people in-person during my first six months of high school. Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? I miss being able to take advantage of the socializing that school offered. I misstalking to my teachers.

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Learning Personalized Learning Report Online Learning 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose.

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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.”

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ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

Transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn in third grade is a significant milestone, and this unprecedented nationwide disruption to student learning will likely have long-term implications. for the 2019-2020 school year. The 2019-2020 school year began with business as usual.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Elsewhere, teachers hold daily virtual office hours to check on the academic and emotional well-being of students they can no longer meet face to face. As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. on March 18, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 68

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As a new school year begins, a number of district leaders are scrambling to address concerns from parents and staff that their chosen online learning platform features content that is racist, sexist or inappropriate for children. 25, two days before her district’s first day of school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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Elementary Assessment Report Outcomes 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. It’s not easy maintaining jobs, motivating the boys – “I don’t care about what anybody says, stickers work” – and making ends meet.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 139

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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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. Then the pandemic hit. During the pandemic, schools saw an increase in cyber threats and data breaches.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Positive parental help could make the difference between students being excited about math or falling behind during the pandemic, said Jennifer Bay-Williams, co-author of “Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally” and professor of education at the University of Louisville. Credit: Michelle Majdoch.

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eSpark

AUGUST 4, 2021

With so many options for online learning available, one thing that can set a program apart from the others is a curriculum grounded in proven educational research. The seven elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning are each backed by rigorous educational studies to ensure academic growth and retention for every student. “At

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We could neither travel nor meet in person. Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Early in the semester, during a unit on the U.S. Still, we were taking a risk.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In this interview, we chat about challenges teachers are facing in the midst of the pandemic and what strategies teachers can use in a concurrent classroom learning environment. Losing the Benefits of Online Learning. Catlin says there are many benefits to face-to-face learning and online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. We meet regularly, we brainstorm solutions, we do case reviews.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A few weeks before students returned to Biloxi High School in Mississippi, broadcast journalism teacher Olivia Dunwoody joined a virtual faculty meeting to review new safety procedures the administration had set for the new year. Teachers Has Pineda, left, and Adam Stopeck meet with students to preview their new schedule.

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Libraries Report Guidelines Meeting 142

MindShift

APRIL 21, 2020

Sarah Kirk, an elementary school counselor in Tulsa, Okla., Today, a face-to-face video meeting is the closest a counselor can get to the old ideal. ” Connecting is even more complicated for elementary school counselors whose students generally don’t have cell phones or email addresses. .”

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Arati has an M.Ed.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This year, The Virtual High School will develop and launch a new 15-week online cybersecurity course for delivery in the 2019-2020 academic year. Students may enroll in any VHS course of their choosing, as long as they meet course prerequisites. is an online learning pioneer.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And one of those stressors is trying to teach their kids: Almost three-fourths of adults with children recounted that managing online learning was a “significant source of stress.” At one school board meeting she attended, she was placed in a virtual room with parents and students, rather than with educators.

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Report Study Survey Online Learning 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2020

Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. 210,000 — The number of bus drivers working directly for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Simply getting kids to school is shaping up to be one of the biggest reopening challenges. We don’t know what we need for busing yet,” he said.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

.” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” And we’ve got WritingCity.

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Everybody sort of struggled through trying to develop a combination of paper packets and online instruction,” said Bruchhaus, the superintendent. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But between the start of the pandemic and December 2020, up to 12% of K-12 public school students gained internet connectivity who lacked it previously, and a similar share of students got access to digital devices, estimates Titilayo Tinubu Ali, senior director of research and policy at the Southern Education Foundation.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141