The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response.

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Learning Data Social Media Study 139

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These days senior college leaders should be eager to find out, as enrollment overall is falling even while interest in online courses is on the rise. In contrast, enrollment in online courses shot up from nearly 34 percent over the 10-year period and leaped 110 percent in the first years of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2022

Enter the pandemic, which led to canceled club meetings and sporting events, online learning and restricted socialization. Between 2019 and late 2021, screen use among both teens and tweens grew an additional 17 percent. Among tweens (ages 8 to 12), it increased by just 3 percent.

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Social Media Survey Report Facebook 184

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning? Homeschooling shows an additional boost in another survey, this one from the online course review site Learnopoly. And the pandemic year has taken a toll on U.S.

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E-rate STEM Survey Conference 151

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

Infobase, esteemed provider of the Infobase Media Cloud and the Infobase Learning Cloud, today announced that Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center was named a 2021 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the “Best College & Career Readiness Solution” category. Details about each finalist are listed at [link].

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Industry Software Libraries Company 65

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

We begin 2021 heartened by the resiliency of educators and students from around the country pushing through the disruptions of COVID-19. Even in the face of current challenges, many schools and districts are using this moment to design new approaches that will shape learning far into the future.

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Analysis Education Digital Divide Policies 188

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The data provide the most comprehensive look yet at how much schoolchildren have fallen behind academically. The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse.

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Analysis Learning Data Report 89

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

To support both new and existing solutions, while delivering engaging learning experiences, developing forward-thinking data strategies and building new revenue streams, edtechs are using Amazon Web Services, Inc. Data is abundant and the key to today’s edtech solutions Data is critical to unlock the potential of edtech solutions.

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EdTech Trends Outcomes Data 218

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. You’ll explore emotional intelligence models and various methods for collecting data, so you’ll be equipped to decide which instruments are right for your school or district to measure SEL growth.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

The latest study from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research is based on testing data from 2.1 It shows that school closures widened both economic and racial inequality in learning — which was already at unacceptable rates prior to the pandemic. million students across the country. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Data Learning Policies Personalized Learning 83

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

After finishing the roughly seven-month-long program and passing her certification exam in late 2021, she found that no one would hire her. The Department of Labor does track and publish results, but the state and federal data on how many students finish a program and get jobs is often contradictory or is simply unavailable.

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Training Company Data Course 101

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In March, Baltimore City Public Schools, and my sixth grade class, shifted to online learning. This shift online for teachers provided opportunities and obstacles. According to recent data by Baltimore’s Promise, 57 percent of Baltimore City 11th graders are not reading on a high school level—far below expectations.

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Education Data Assessment Accessibility 206

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Studies released during the second half of 2021 confirm that students learned a lot more in person than they did during remote instruction. But since so many students didn’t take spring tests in 2021, the accuracy of these estimates was uncertain. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. It isn’t much worse than we thought.

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Study Assessment Data Elementary 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 100

Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources. The app integrates with Google Drive, Classroom, and Sign-On, simplifying the online learning environment for Google districts.

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Flipped Classroom Software Tools Classroom 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom. Related: Remote learning has been a disaster for many students.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data.

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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Broadband Learning Blended Learning Training 159

Shake Up Learning

MAY 27, 2021

You can use Sheets to store and analyze data. If you want to fit more text in your headers, learn how to rotate–similar to how it looks in a typical gradebook. Whether you are using Google Sheets for your grade book, assessment data, or Google Forms data, this little tip can help you format your sheet!

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Google How To Data Policies 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Fifty-six percent of families said their internet was too slow to properly participate in online learning.

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 114

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Only 41 percent of undergraduates succeeded in completing a four-year degree in four years, according to the most recent data from the U.S. But, as an outside observer, I find it upsetting that a potential solution to improving graduation rates is to sacrifice learning. Related: The online paradox at community colleges.

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Learning Analysis Course Study 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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Education Software Data Company 121

Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There is a heightened focus on remote learning and online classes. While online learning brings many benefits to students and teachers alike, it also comes with higher cybersecurity threats. Here are some common cybersecurity threats plaguing educational institutions in 2022: Data Breaches. Backup Your Data.

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eBook Education Data Mobility 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

“It can put students on a slower learning track because of the way that they express themselves.” Issues like this are common when ed tech companies only rely on data provided by a certain set of schools that opt into a study, according to Hebbar.

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EdTech Company Data Software 114

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. This story also appeared in COVID-19 Data Dispatch. 4 Source: Data from School Health Services Manager Rebecca Aiken.

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Elementary Data Accessibility Tablets 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. The homework gap could worsen for millions of U.S. The program received $7.17 Funding runs out on June 30. As of Dec.

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Broadband Digital Divide Libraries Accessibility 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

Robbie Harris, at the time a workplace learning specialist for the San Antonio Independent School District, was one of 30 educators in three pilot locations selected to take part in the program. During the pandemic, schools saw an increase in cyber threats and data breaches.

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Training Report Company Data 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

National data showed if they had a little bit of support, they could take a college-level course and not have to go through the entire of developmental course load.”. Enrollment in developmental English courses decreased from 9,338 in 2017-18 to 5,284 in 2018-2019, according to data provided by the Alabama Community College System.

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Course System Data Strategy 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan.

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Outcomes Accessibility Study Elementary 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Administrators are crafting plans for the 2021-22 school year to help children catch up on what they may have missed in math during the pandemic. Neumann is looking forward to working with such materials with her students when they return for the 2021-22 school year. It’s almost like Jekyll and Hyde,” she said.

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Strategy Elementary Groups Personalized Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. That’s a sign these adults didn’t learn needed skills in school. “We million to 3.3

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Software Course Instructional Materials Blended Learning 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Personal hotspots, which allow students to connect a laptop or tablet with a cellular data connection, have been the most popular solution because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. But in many places, a hotspot isn’t enough, Muri said.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Company 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data.

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Analysis Elementary Report Data 95

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5

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Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5

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Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Edtech allows learners to learn and teachers to teach despite language barriers, inability to gather physically in one place, network and bandwidth problems, etc. Edtech features like online learning, digital modules, instructional videos & presentations, and much more allow learners to access learning material anytime and anywhere. .

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Trends eBook Gamification EdTech 52