eSchool News

MAY 9, 2023

This will enable them to better understand how students are growing academically and how to maximize that growth with content specific recommendations that advance student learning. HMH was acquired by Veritas in April 2022. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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Company Assessment Advocacy Outcomes 60

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.

Instructional Materials 114

Instructional Materials Training Advocacy Elementary 114

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media. We ought to know more about how to best help them learn. To the contrary, for some children, it appears that being taught in a segregated setting is actually beneficial.”. It did not.

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Analysis Education Study Policies 127

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. Even before the pandemic, multi-lingual learners lost more ground than their peers during the summer when they were out of school,” said Eric Rodriguez , SVP of Policy and Advocacy at UnidosUS. Portland, Ore.

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Advocacy Policies Study Data 56

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

GIBSONS, British Columbia — Two years ago, Marisol Petersen’s family was paying more than $1,200 a month for her son to attend child care in this small, coastal town about 20 miles across the Howe Sound from Vancouver. Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. Could Milwaukee provide the answer?

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System Report Learning Industry 145

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

Will your child appreciate your advocacy when they are overcoming handicaps, obstacles, or just throwing a fit and you hit their face with a slice of cheese? Are we teaching our students how to protect themselves online? Our children and students need to know how to behave online and protect their information. #8

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Advocacy Data 100

Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Many teachers discovered tools they didn’t know about and learned how to incorporate more technology into their teaching practice. Now that most classrooms have moved back to in-person learning, Mike shares his curiosity about how teachers continue to utilize technology to help their students. . © Shake Up Learning 2022.

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Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 96

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As world leaders return home from the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP27 ), an annual international climate meeting that was held in Egypt this year, they have many action items to attend to. There is a coalition of children's rights and children's advocacy groups that has been at COP, led by UNICEF.

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System Advocacy Groups Conference 155

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. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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Education Report System Meeting 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. Or does it not have anything to do with race at all?

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Report Course Advocacy Policies 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Despite i ndications that youth are increasingly involved in civic life , voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds remains stubbornly low , and many young adults say they don’t know the basics of how to register to vote and cast a ballot. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Kaplan Policies Report System 141

edWeb.net

AUGUST 18, 2022

During the edLeader Panel, “ Leading Learning in the 2022-2023 School Year: Ready, Set, Go ,” superintendents discussed how they’re preparing for the upcoming year, the main challenges they’re facing, and what they’re doing to move their staff and students forward with optimism and excitement. Key Challenges for 2022-23.

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BYOD Advocacy Professional Learning System 74

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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Training Meeting E-rate Groups 99

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read. 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. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Cleveland came into her position under challenging circumstances, including a teacher strike that delayed the start of the school year in August 2022.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Because I was speaking my mind—and not white—they didn’t know how to work with me in a way that made them feel comfortable,” Gleghorn adds. Preliminary data show that the waivers, which were due to end in 2022, have significantly boosted the diversity of teacher candidates in Mississippi. A principal weighs in. .

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Report Meeting Groups Data 144

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The extensive research presented in the ISL’s 2022 K12 Edtech Safety Benchmark Findings Report Part 1 makes it clear the technology recommended and used by U.S. Through standards development, product research, product audits and policy advocacy, we work to ensure software product safety.

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Internet Safety Mobility Software EdTech 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2024

According to 2022 data from Common App, about 450,000 applicants that year met the federal definition, meaning that neither parent had a bachelor’s degree, including about 300,000 students whose parents had never attended any college.

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Analysis Advocacy Report Data 108

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

has a goal of a CBE system by 2022. The issue is in the application -- how to track and monitor SBG, especially over time. Our current Shelby Strategic Leadership Plan 2.0 The philosophy of SBG is not the stumbling block for most educators. While teachers have done this without digital help, it is time consuming and difficult.

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LMS System Course Assessment 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The Higher Learning Commission ordered three years ago that dual-enrollment instructors in the 19 states where it accredits universities and colleges have at least master’s degrees, but Indiana, Minnesota and other states and many colleges have gotten extensions until mid-2022.

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Course Policies Report Study 86

MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Despite indications that youth are increasingly involved in civic life , voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds remains stubbornly low , and many young adults say they don’t know the basics of how to register to vote and cast a ballot. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Kaplan Learning Policies Report 41

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Labor Day 2022—instead of the usual beginning-of-the-school-year exercises, Los Angeles Unified School District administrators had to deal with a ransomware attack that shut down its computer systems. And no matter how the attack began, superintendents should take responsibility for how the schools handle it.

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BYOD Advocacy Assistive Technology System 74

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The focus was on those highly prized, sometimes hard to define “soft skills” like communications and collaboration, and how VR sims could help with training in areas such as leadership, HR, sales and customer service. Another 20 percent don’t have any plans, and 8 percent aren’t sure. Why the appeal?

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Survey EdTech Tools Training 136

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. At the personal level, I learned how to better communicate with my children.

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Meeting Resources Accessibility Policies 109

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 12, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. Most recently, he served on the California Library Association Board.

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Libraries Conference Accessibility System 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 7, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) next week on Thursday, July 14th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 US Pacific Time. Most recently, he served on the California Library Association Board.

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Conference Libraries Accessibility System 61

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

” 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. I never really wanted to go from school to school.”. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff. And now I work with teachers going into the classrooms.”.

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Education Elementary Data Dropout 135

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. In April 2021, members voted Lessa 2022-2023 President of the American Library Association.

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Conference Libraries Digital Divide System 36

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

States can decide how they define these cases — some count any instance that requires medical attention, others count only injuries that cause permanent damage — leading to widely different numbers. Georgia , for example, had zero serious injuries in 2022; Ohio , which also counts serious “incidents,” had nearly 19,000.

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System Meeting Data Report 84

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. A lesson on how to create a podcast. A lesson on how to create a podcast.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. Colorado is dropping remedial courses beginning in 2022, and universities and colleges there have already started getting rid of them. Related: Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive.

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Education Policies Course System 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Carson helped me figure out how to tell you,’ then I’m possibly going to be sued,” she said. Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization. Still, Carson said, the threat of a lawsuit is “one more worry on my head.”. “If

Survey 22

Survey Elementary Advocacy Report 22

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). It had been swiftly and unanimously approved in June 2022 and was delivered to replace the curriculum that was out of print.

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 137

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Analysis from Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein : “‘Alternative Pathways:’ How to Rethink Vocational Education.” It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Eleven states didn’t run interstate checks at all, the 2022 report found. Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican.

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Report System Policies Advocacy 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

Policies 141

Policies Education Elementary Advocacy 141