The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These efforts are two of the 15 recommendations in a project called the Moon Shot for Equity, a plan that seeks to eliminate college graduation equity gaps by 2030. The Moon Shot program is specifically designed to close gaps for Black, Latino, Native American, first generation and other historically underserved students by 2030.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! From Teacher Appreciation Week to shifting technologies, it’s a busy time in education. Discovery Education loves Teacher Appreciation Week because it’s an extra special time to share our gratitude to our network of 4.5 million educators. from 2023 to 2030.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Beijing —China is a different world when it comes to education and tech. Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. China’s got the best education market in the world, as it turns out,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 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! When Willie Carver Jr. Willie Carver Jr.,

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

If trends continue unabated, by 2030 we may be looking at nearly 50 percent of school-aged children walking away from traditional public education in this country. Is there a silver bullet to this downward spiral in student enrollment, or will public education be irreparably changed? One out of every two children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Higher education was struggling to keep up with the skyrocketing demand for nurses even before the Covid crisis. That doesn’t include the number turned away by community colleges, which educate a large number of beginning nurses. Related: A worrying trend this fall: decline in FAFSA applications. Now it’s falling further behind.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

There’s advising for those who decide to go further in their educations. State and federal agencies are joining the trend. Nearly one-third of teenagers now say they would prefer their postsecondary education to last two years or less , a survey by the ECMC Group, a nonprofit education corporation, found.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 5, 2016

Goldman Sachs shared their analysis of higher education for investors a few weeks ago, and it’s an important document for people in higher education to consider. Graduates studying lower paying majors such as Arts, Education and Psychology face the highest risk of a negative return.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

“If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. It’s important to point out that the National Center for Education Statistics, the statistics arm of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Yet labor and education leaders warn that the country is almost uniquely ill-equipped to help these people gather new skills and prepare for new careers. Information about which education programs offer a path to economic security is sometimes limited and inaccessible. Approximately 10.7 How do we help them get back on their feet?

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 23, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast With the myriad of challenges facing current and future educators, schools cannot overlook the importance of having a workforce strategy in place. Lifer , based on this edLeader Panel The post Workforce Strategy: A Necessity for Educator Retention and Wellbeing appeared first on edWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. David Attis, managing director of research at the education consulting company EAB. Listen to our higher education podcast.

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MindSpark

OCTOBER 12, 2023

From virtual assistants on our smartphones to self-driving cars, AI is already revolutionizing the way we live and work, and this trend will only continue. Today’s educators hold the power to make this happen. Additionally, integrating AI-focused lessons has broader applications outside of educating about the technology itself.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. Fantasy about a future of education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

“He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school? College skepticism , by the numbers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

On the other side of that equation are educators, who often draw from their own learning experiences in K-12 and higher education to inform their instruction. Of all the issues and trends in edtech these days, she says automation is one of the most pressing—and one that all educators should be thinking about.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Now, a set of surveys from the think tank New America finds adults’ education is suffering, too, as public libraries closed during the pandemic. 2,200), U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

It’s also part of a subtle attempt to address a growing problem the United Kingdom has in common with the United States: After decades in which men in college far outnumbered women, boys are entering higher education in ranks so low that the balance on campuses has dramatically reversed. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Tangled up in the daily knot of bad news, reports of these worrisome trends are easy to wave away. Related: First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep divides. state in terms of educational achievement. Otherwise, the 2030 diversity reports from Silicon Valley might look worse than they do today.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2015, 14 institutions in New England have closed and nine have merged, says Barbara Brittingham, president of the New England Commission of Higher Education. Betting on Health Care These trends have been on the minds of leaders at Colby-Sawyer. More mergers are planned. million projected operating loss.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

A most disruptive year to schools and society proved lucrative for the education industry, particularly for those raising private capital. education technology startups raised over $2.2 Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s how overwhelmingly the women in the bar outnumber the men, a visible manifestation of a momentous trend at whose leading edge is Iceland. Department of Education estimates show. We know that when you have a college education, there are good outcomes with health. But policymakers are worried about this trend.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via the Department of Education ’s press office : “Prepared Remarks by U.S.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The second a new trend changes, our generation is the first to know about it, before adults. Chatterbox is receiving rave reviews at many schools and top universities across the UK, and Hedayat would love to extend that reach to elementary and high-school classrooms, as well as higher education, across the US. infographics or videos).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A few were serious about the prospect of continuing their educations, he said. They score better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress than urban students and graduate from high school at a higher percentage than the national average, the U.S. Department of Education reports. Dustin Gordon bucked the trend.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Not all of the initiatives to solve these problems have succeeded. Those spending more?

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” The US Secretary of Education appeared on 60 Minutes this past weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Compare that to the public university system in Illinois, which has cut its higher education budget so deeply that Moody’s downgraded seven universities, including five to junk bond status. Higher Education. If Blank is right, then current trends put that future in doubt for much of the Midwest. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Listen, folks (particularly educators). ” (In fairness, I’m not sure what the typical work-week looks like for a Secretary of Education.). Via Education Week : “ Trump Nominee for Career-Tech Position Being Pulled Due to Offensive Blog Posts.” More via Politico.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Not so fast , says Doug Levin : “Scant Details, Fuzzy Math in $500 Million Public-Private Computer Science Education Push.” ” Trump has, of course, proposed some $9 billion in funding cuts to the Department of Education, so this is hardly “new money.”

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