eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

The EvolveMe platform gives teens access to and rewards them for completing high-quality, professional career experimentation activities and building transferable skills they can apply to any job.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Meet four of them below. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. One of the initial steps was developing course materials for professors to use and adapt without having to start from scratch.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As she made progress toward her major, chemistry, and needed fewer courses directly related to that degree, the state grant she relied on covered fewer of her credit hours, leaving her with thousands more dollars to pay. That meant she couldn’t sign up for courses for the upcoming semester. Of course I said yes.” She felt stuck.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. While she was out, two student workers ensured the recovery program room stayed open, emails went out and weekly meetings happened.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

But also, please use your brilliance to help modernize Montessori (in the appropriate ways) and make this great pedagogy more accessible to all. And, of course, please buy the classrooms science kits! However, philanthropically-funded preschools will not be enough to meet the needs of all American three and four-year-olds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

With the movement for no-tuition community college gaining momentum in more states and earning top billing in President Biden’s education agenda , experts in college access and affordability advise caution about using that potent four-letter word: f-r-e-e. Don’t just think about access and enrollment,” Jackson says.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

More than a Month: Strategies for Increasing Accessibility and Inclusion A culture of disability inclusion and accessibility does not happen by accident. It must be built into strategic plans year-long, designed into policies, meetings, and resources, and a mindset used in all interactions, decisions, and planning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For school counselors, what’s key is that school counselors have the ability to look at the demographics of a school, to look at where students are going in terms of course placement. In my classroom, we talk of course about Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, who was the world’s first programmer. It’s completely free and very accessible.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

When students saw the results of the work they had done, this affirmed how identity, advocacy and doing the work yields positive results. First, I started by establishing Parent University, a place where parents could come and access resources to create better conditions for themselves and their children.

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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. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

Steve Albrecht with " Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time " on February 12th. Then, being announced today, is " Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques " with Dr. Sue Alman on February 21st.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I I think that’s a really important part of this: There really isn’t another system out there that’s meeting their needs. If you’re unable to access the resource, it doesn’t matter what the resource is.”

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

She invited me to meet with Jason, who filled me in on his situation. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

She’s studying public policy and sociology there, in addition to playing Ultimate Frisbee, starting a chapter of a student-advocacy organization and interning at the Georgia General Assembly for the 2022 legislative session. Alan is now a high school junior taking some college-level courses, including in UX Design.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). This is wonderful news in light of recent attempts to stuff a free public access requirement into OER definitions. (I emphasis added).

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Pupils with special learning needs due to physical and/or mental impairments who require special assistance to meet with academic success. (Michael Fullan, 2002, p.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. These systems are really just attempts by publishers to increase revenues by forcing students to buy access codes that can’t be resold.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Danilo Moreta, a graduate student raised in Colombia, leads a Spanish language section of a plant science course, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Reisinger, who this spring will teach a French section of a new course, Global Advertising (there is also a section in Spanish).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

but the gap between the two scores didn’t meet the cutoff of 15 points, so the girl was not given appropriate reading services in her school. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I The five-year-old was promptly given an IQ test.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. Department of Education, for reasons including cost and access. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Our students are granted the opportunity to flourish with access to knowledge, resources, the world of literature and the creation of school community. Approximately 50 schools have libraries with catalog systems, and all schools have a subscription to PA Power Library, which makes libraries virtually accessible to all schools.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Some use online programs or software to give students access to content at their individual level , allowing them to move through lessons at their own pace. Others have combined grade levels to best meet the needs of students. Most schools nationwide say they’ve implemented personalized learning, to some degree.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Colleges have created special support programs because other campus disability services, to which students with autism are often referred, don’t always meet all their needs, advocates and parents say. They’ll meet you halfway,” said Uri, who is now a software engineer at Microsoft. I learned about not being afraid to talk to teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Others find it nearly impossible to fit courses around work and childcare. Part-time classmates who worked during the day, as she did, Dzindzichashvili said, constantly worried about whether courses would be available at night. Many, like Dzindzichashvili, interrupt their studies because of the cost.

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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. For these and other reasons, some take courses they don’t need, pick majors they will later change and don’t know what to do when the resulting problems leave them on the brink of flunking out.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others. With support from CZI, Vision to Learn has provided eyeglasses to more than 120,000 students to help them meet their basic needs – and to learn and thrive.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It was the final day of first-year orientation at Grinnell College, with classes scheduled to start the next morning, and these new students were still finding their way around the campus, meeting neighbors in the dorms and waiting to hear whether they got into the courses they wanted. If you leave them to opt out, many of them will.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

And of course, Instructure (Canvas), Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle), Longsight (Sakai), and other companies provide for-fee, value-added services around Learning Management Systems hosting and support. These contingent faculty likely teach four or five courses a term – or teach a different class at three different institutions each semester.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, this is expected and not problematic. If you are in your head or reacting rashly, you will miss insights and opportunities to meet your students’ needs. #2 When we are emotionally triggered, the more primitive parts of our brain take over — making it a challenge to access our prefrontal cortex! 2 Create protocols.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report Cory Orr’s accelerated training program meets seven hours a day, four days a week; it will take him 22 weeks instead of the usual two years to earn the certifications he needs to become an industrial maintenance technician.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

More than two-thirds of four-year university and college admissions officers said in a survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling that transfer students had become “significantly important” in meeting enrollment goals. ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters.

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