The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2023

Highlights include- At IFLA: Governing Board 2013-2017, Co-Founder of IFLA New Professionals, two-term Member/Expert resource person of the Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Committee of IFLA (FAIFE), two-term member of the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA (CPDWL).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2023

Highlights include- At IFLA: Governing Board 2013-2017, Co-Founder of IFLA New Professionals, two-term Member/Expert resource person of the Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression Committee of IFLA (FAIFE), two-term member of the Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning Section of IFLA (CPDWL).

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

Samaniego created the website Blue Agua as a class project to raise money for access to water for people who don’t have it. Researchers at the Georgetown Center predict that by 2030 only 30 percent of jobs will be available to workers with just a high school education. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

A study commissioned by The Wallace Foundation notes that when it comes to high levels of student achievement, school leadership is second only to classroom instruction. Teachers and policy makers, too, are literacy leaders. Related: Will giving greater student access to smartphones improve learning?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Home visits for high schoolers are a “very rare occurrence” said Steven Sheldon, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education who studies them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They have been studying how and at what age children come to learn words, follow stories, and grasp educational concepts that appear in ebooks, videos, and apps. Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense. New experiments on The Adventures of SuperWhy !, Doctor’s orders!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And a new study warns that, in America, all boys at the bottom of the income ladder are losing hope of ever climbing up it, in what the authors call “economic despair.”. Francesca Ashton at the University of Liverpool, where she studies dentistry, a subject in which women now far outnumber men. In the U.S., In the U.K.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Samantha Gutter is chief access and outreach officer at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, which surveyed high school seniors about college and found that they were reluctant to go into debt. They stick to a policy of advertising prices few consumers pay but that discourage many from applying. The countries ahead of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We Katrín Ólafsdóttir, an economist at the University of Reykjavik who studies gender inequality. It’s about equal access for everyone. Middle-class ones.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” ” Via NPR : “ California ’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem.”

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” Also via NPR : “‘I Hope This Will Set A Precedent,’ Says Trans Teen Who Won Case Over Bathroom Access.” Economy by 2030.” Via Chalkbeat : “From an ‘F’ to an ‘A’, Tennessee now sets high expectations for students, says Harvard study.” ” Imperil!!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas at her work-study job at San Jose State University. Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Dr. Beate W.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

We need to pull together and galvanize the recommendations of our higher education leadership into real, positive policy change for our public universities. As higher education leaders and concerned citizens, we must take hold of this moment and leverage it into policy changes that will have widespread impact.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Frank Brogan, the chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University System from 2013 until retiring this year, has joined the Department of Education in the Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development – likely ahead of a nomination to a separate position.” Publishers love this, of course.

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