eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. percent to 22.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2022

Earlier this month, as thousands of early childhood educators and advocates gathered in Baltimore for the 2022 National Head Start Annual Conference, attendees exchanged first-hand accounts and anecdotes from the field, sharing what the last couple of years have been like for them and what it’s like right now.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

LOUIS, MO (June 23, 2022) — Saint Louis University School of Education and BloomBoard have partnered to announce a new initiative to help superintendents and school boards address the current crisis of teacher recruitment and retention. About Saint Louis University. Saint Louis University — located in St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

April 14, 2022 — As we approach the end of the third straight year of learning disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. It showed that ELs had lower test scores than their non-EL peers through their elementary years, but they also made academic growth similar to or at greater levels as their non-EL peers. Portland, Ore.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 In addition to her role as Content Lead for Libraries, Michelle served as President of the Iowa School Association of School Librarians in 2022, and Past President in 2023. million in ESSER funds being allocated to school libraries to complete a three-year collection redevelopment project.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Covid put the district’s gains in jeopardy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

A third of school leaders reported an increase in fights among students, and 56 percent said there had been an uptick in classroom disruptions that they attributed to Covid disruptions, according to a federal survey released in May 2022. in September 2022. You can’t learn if you’re not feeling safe or nurtured.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Meanwhile the pressure schools face to prevent violence is real: In 2022 there were 285 school-shooting incidents in which a gun was brandished or fired, or a bullet hit school property, the most of any year since at least 1970, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database compiled by the Naval Postgraduate School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. In the fall of 2022, his senior year, the teenager finally got a dyslexia diagnosis, but by then it was far too late to give him the help he had long craved.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Credit: Bianca Vázquez Toness/Associated Press “This was about balancing the number of students in schools,” says Tiffany Fick, director of school quality and advocacy for Equity in Education, a policy organization in Atlanta. Communities such as St.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Rural districts tend to have a harder time recruiting school psychologists, said Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists. The grant programs are also part of President Joe Biden’s effort to double the number of school-based mental health professionals.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

Deaf Community and Culture and Best Practices for Libraries | Deaf History Month Free Symposium APRIL 21, 2022 - 1:00PM - 3:00PM ROSA RODRIGUEZ, ALICE L. Special thanks to our iSchool advocacy interns Cybell Garcia Koehl, Heidi Miller, and Leigh Carroll for their work on putting this altogether. More below.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app. As the National Center for Education Statistics stated, as recently as 2016, “ 95% of elementary schools and 82% of secondary schools had a library or media center.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. Preliminary data show that the waivers, which were due to end in 2022, have significantly boosted the diversity of teacher candidates in Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. Louis, in the spring of 2022. She enrolled her boys in the local schools that April. Louis area home on June 10, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. Juan missed 94 days of school in 2022 because he didn’t have a nurse to attend class with him. I was lonely,” Ballina said. “I I missed my friends.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. But no one told Petersen that. Beth Petersen watches as her son leaves for the school bus on Oct. And school is stability.”.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

In Sevier County, Tennessee, where Dollywood is located, the median cost for infant care is between $650 and $900 per month, according to 2022 estimates found in the U.S. In other parts of the country, though, it wouldn’t go nearly as far. Department of Labor’s National Database of Child Care Prices. Momentum there is really important.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

of all district students) enrolled in a K-12 New York City Public School in 2021-2022. Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Li sees a noticeable difference between the predominantly Asian elementary school he attended in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and middle school and high school, where the student population is predominantly white.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. “We Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer. when their school day ends.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

“The communities that need the most will face the biggest hits,” said Zahava Stadler, special assistant for state funding and policy at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. “If A math teacher at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix teaching online in an empty classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In fall 2022, after two teachers finally signed on, the group received permission to start the club on campus. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Much of that happened because of one parent, Rachelle Ketron. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

But in 2022 the evidence is just too stark to justify the use of public money to fund private tuition. In addition to funding research, the Bradley Foundation has given at least $31 million to political advocacy on behalf of vouchers. I started this research cautiously optimistic that vouchers could help.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” Tuition for those students is now more than $14,000.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I It had been swiftly and unanimously approved in June 2022 and was delivered to replace the curriculum that was out of print. The policy ended up passing 4-0.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I truly believe the school district is the heart of our town,” said Melanie Stubblefield, who teaches music in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades at Travis Elementary School in the Mineral Wells district, which has about 3,230 students spread across its seven schools. A slate of defiant Texas Republican lawmakers agrees.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

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