The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 145

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 140

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. Down the hall, students in small groups worked on reading and math. Playing catch-up in districts that were already struggling.

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Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 110

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.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 19, 2021

KMcCray85) January 8, 2021. Watch this quick video to learn how! Megan says that there are a lot of differences between online learning and face-to-face, but that many things do remain the same. Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning Expectations. Is Online Learning Good for ALL Types of Learners?

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Online Learning Blended Learning Groups Meeting 99

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

Digital Divide 52

Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

Digital Divide 52

Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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Report Elementary Examples Data 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 3,600 students 1 In-person enrollment: 86 percent after reopening for a four-day week in March 2 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 5 cases in the fall (identified by the state in two elementary school outbreaks) 3 17 cases in the spring (15 rapid test positives, 2 PCR test positives); none identified by the state as outbreaks 4.

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Elementary Data Accessibility Tablets 85

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. 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. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 109

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.

Elementary 141

Elementary Assessment Report Outcomes 141

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.

E-rate 130

E-rate Pearson Company Report 130

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, April 21, 2021 – At Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) in Massachusetts, the Media Arts team produces content for schools, departments, and teachers while offering students a wide array of media classes, clubs, and work study opportunities.

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Video Elementary Social Media Google 95

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With the pandemic raging in Los Angeles, the 2021 Grammys have been postponed until March 14. During the pandemic, elementary and high school students have still been getting access to quality music education in some cases, as their teachers learn to adapt. Music and music education have been critical to my life.

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Strategy Elementary Secondary Training 95

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In 2021, the company started working with several Boys & Girls Clubs in Washington State and Montana to tailor that training to K-12 students. And in Indiana, the state department of education announced in 2021 that career exploration and postsecondary readiness will be a requirement in its schools.

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Industry Training Company Trends 101

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 119

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. 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 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last year, as reported by The Hechinger Report’s Tara García Mathewson, the nonprofit group pivoted to solving the homework gap. percent of eligible Americans were enrolled in the federal EBB initiative as of October 2021. However, 28.2 million U.S. billion to help households afford a broadband connection.

Digital Divide 106

Digital Divide Broadband Report Trends 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on ed tech’ Hebbar’s Ed Tech Equity Project, in collaboration with Digital Promise, launched a product certification program in 2021 to recognize ed tech companies that share plans to incorporate racial equity in their designs.

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EdTech Company Data Software 125

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

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. Subscribe today! During the pandemic, schools saw an increase in cyber threats and data breaches.

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Training Report Company Data 128

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. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 134

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although the district is one of the most racially diverse in the state, school officials are expecting a fragmented return along demographic lines as more families of color than white families opt to enroll their children in online learning. Harriell’s son is in second grade, an age group not exactly known for social distancing.

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Trends Groups Report Online Learning 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. But less frequent tutoring, such as having sessions once a week, was not.

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Study Data Report Elementary 134

Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The past several years have seen a rapid rise in the use of edtech in classrooms, accelerated by the pandemic and the sudden shift to remote learning. The group collectively discussed how they wanted to evaluate their current edtech tools and actively involved everyone in the process.

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EdTech Learning System Groups 258

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, their parents often struggled with their own language barriers and strains on the family that made it even more difficult to help their children thrive, particularly when it came to online learning. Students help each other build on skills by tackling reading assignments together in small groups.

How To 68

How To Learning Report System 68

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

But in states like New Jersey, one of at least nine states around the country that have mandated in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year , parents and teachers who were hoping to continue on the distance-learning track are on their own. An aerial photo of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County. “He

Learning 121

Learning Social Media Survey Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

Elementary 141

Elementary Learning Report Exercises 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The room grew loud as students jostled into line to bring their completed graphs to the front, where Voss separated kids into two groups: Those who got the right answer wrote their initials on a touchscreen up front, and those who answered incorrectly went to Benson for additional help. — and gave students a few minutes to answer it.

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Exercises Report Assessment Groups 123

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Listed here is the second group of the program’s finalists. The first group of finalists was featured on eSchool News last week– find them here ! The footage acquired was edited into a series videos demonstrating the power and benefits of HMH’s digital-first, connected solutions in a hybrid learning environment.

Education 107

Education Edmentum Epson Elementary 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance.

Analysis 88

Analysis Report Data Advocacy 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Children dance to learn the letter D, for example, while chanting the sound that goes with the letter. Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Excellent, good job.

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Strategy Elementary Training Report 108

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2021

Kali took to online learning immediately. And given that tens of millions of students were involuntarily enrolled in a sort of pilot version of online learning for much of the last year, more families than ever are realizing that they prefer it and are asking their children’s schools to accommodate them moving forward.

Online Learning 206

Online Learning Survey System Meeting 206

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2023

Four out of five child care centers across the United States are understaffed, according to a 2021 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) survey. In the same survey, 20 percent of participants said they are considering leaving their jobs, and of that group, 40 percent cited mental health as the reason.

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Training Survey Accessibility Meeting 148

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. What’s his name?”

Learning 94

Learning Report Elementary Dropout 94

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! In January 2021, Seage decided it was time to leap into the education field, leveraging the skills he acquired to make a difference at his alma mater, Christopher Columbus High School.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 112

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Stay tuned, because the second group of finalists will be featured on eSchool News next week! Under Mr. Hatcher’s guidance, Akron Public Schools partnered with Edmentum to integrate cutting-edge learning technologies, harnessing their full potential to enhance learning outcomes. Read about the three 2023 winners here.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 93

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, there were two studies of online video tutoring. One-to-one video tutoring sometimes produced double the reading gains as video tutoring in pairs, demonstrating a difference between online and in-person tutoring, where larger groups of two and three students can be very effective too.

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Study Video Report Training 133