The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

The way we access information and interact with each other is new. So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. We are growing up in a world completely different from that of our parents, teachers and leaders.

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STEM Advocacy Robotics iPhone 98

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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Advocacy Case Study Study Elementary 136

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

VPS students have access to diverse courses such as coding, Python, robotics, and electronic applications, to name a few. The Python courses have supported students transitioning into International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) pathways and exist at all three high schools. . … Community Engagement and Advocacy.

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Maker Movement Robotics Education Advocacy 211

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland.

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Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

ExcelinEd

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yet not everyone has the chance to access this critical subject. Learn how your state can expand access to high-quality computer science education to unlock lifelong opportunities for students at ExcelinEd.org/ITCS and Advocacy/Code.org. What Others Are Saying. — Code.org (@codeorg) December 12, 2019.

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Advocacy Education STEM Elementary 36

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, in many schools across the country, English learners have regularly been pulled out of mainstream academic courses in order to receive segregated, English-only language instruction away from their English-dominant peers. Not only do U.S. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation.

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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 130

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

But that hasn’t stopped Diaz from advocating for parents like her to have better access to and understanding of school data. Those who are proficient can take regular classes, and choose their electives and sometimes enter advanced-placement courses. For people to go into the library to be able to access that data, that’s hard too.

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Libraries Data Learning iPhone 94

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The Evolution of Response to Intervention When President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children’s Act in 1975, it was because public schools had a history of systematically denying students with special needs access to a public school education. Name changed to protect student privacy.

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Assessment Education Handbook Data 160

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 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I

Learning 144

Learning Study Report Elementary 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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Groups Advocacy Report Study 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 106

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

LeBlanc Memorial Library, Springfield Oregon Rosa Rodriguez, Deaf Literacy Center Manager, Pinellas County Library, Florida Marti Goddard, Access Services Manager, San Francisco Public Library Concluding Remarks (2:40 – 3 p.m. Of course, libraries play an essential role in this healthy development across our life span.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media Study 36

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. Of course, ELL students are just as bright and capable as any other student. Lessons Learned.

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System Learning Advocacy Elementary 83

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

It will take Chinchon an extra semester to earn his degree, and that’s even after he took courses in the summers to catch up. These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it.

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Course Report Policies Study 128

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths. When Kathleen Koerner, a counselor at A.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. Access to technology is another funding-related struggle. “If

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 53

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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Elementary Training Advocacy Strategy 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

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. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. SHOW LINK BIO: Rebecca’s dedication to exceptional learners started in elementary school when she was a “special friend” to the mainstream class. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children.

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Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

We had a great opening day of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Join the movement to all children everywhere access to education. Tuesday, November 18th, is day two of the fifth annual Global Education Conference.

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Conference Education STEM Adobe 71

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ve had families who just needed some layer of support or to continue to access their education, and the online environment provided immediate response to that,” shared Mr. Hatcher. As the teacher librarian at RCCBA, Michelle also teaches elective courses in technology and information literacy skills to her students.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. courses focusing on inclusion or special education, compared to about 11 courses for special education teachers.

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Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. And he always did well in his honors and college prep courses at Noblesville High School in Indiana.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 88

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.

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PLE Conference Advocacy Case Study 57

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Attending classes with my mother introduced me to advanced concepts at an early age and empowered my mother to advocate for my access to advanced courses. Black and Latino students often lack access to advanced courses altogether. In some ways, I was lucky to attend advanced classes in isolation.

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Course Accessibility Advocacy Outcomes 117

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post is a newsletter I am sending home to our elementary school families. You can access Rebell’s article at this URL: [link] ). Of course not. Let me know what you think in the comments! It is hard to believe that November is already here! When I first started reading this article, I felt a little defensive.

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Examples Trends Study Elementary 32

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

The costs can make it more complicated and expensive for whole swaths of Americans — particularly families with lower incomes and those living in rural areas — to access desperately-needed special education services. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education. We stopped it right then and there,” she says.

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Report Advocacy Policies Accessibility 23

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student.

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Data Learning Advocacy System 144

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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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? ." " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? ." " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Arkansas Matters → Arkansas lawmakers want to take a closer look at technology in schools and ask if it's really helping- not hurting- students.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three.

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Policies Strategy STEM Advocacy 180

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

The current crisis has highlighted the disparity between students with and without equitable access to technology, especially in rural schools. One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. With not all kids having the same access, they need to figure out how to develop lessons to accommodate all students.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 128