eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The publication, titled Small Districts, Big Hurdles: Cybersecurity Support for Small, Rural, and Under-resourced Districts , offers details on how state agencies and other support organizations are empowering their smallest districts to secure their data and networks. About SETDA SETDA is the principal association representing U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Data and research show that access to college coursework while in high school increases college enrollment, success and graduation rates and has a positive impact on academic performance.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2024

It will also allow the FCC to gather and analyze data on which cybersecurity services and equipment would best help K-12 schools and libraries address growing cyber threats and attacks against their broadband networks. The pilot program will provide schools and libraries with cybersecurity services and equipment.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

While one client may want to pursue a skill like handwriting, another may be more interested in developing self-advocacy, decision-making, or goal setting skills. This gives me hope that other schools can broaden access to OT services for their students, too.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. However, 39 percent of schools reported that lack of access to licensed professionals and mental health funding were major roadblocks to their efforts supporting student mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. As an example, the report highlights the experience of Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana, which has embraced universal design for learning in a variety of ways.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The findings, based on surveys conducted last spring by the RAND Corporation, shed light on the uneven access students have to advanced math classes in middle school, which can have lasting effects on their higher education and job prospects. The new survey data doesn’t look at whether tracking helps or hurts students’ math outcomes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this Masterclass, Garcia-Febo will explain the role of AI in library staff wellness, including definitions, applications in the workplace, and examples of AI used to support employee wellness programs. Garcia-Febo's examples include free and easy-to-access AI. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

New survey data and research illuminates the experiences and perspectives of women who confront this bias and demonstrates the need for systemic change to dismantle the bias driving the gender gap. For example, Kyla Johnson-Trammell, the superintendent of schools in Oakland, recently recalled having a male coach when she started out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Teachers have access to opportunities and resources that guide the effective implementation of CBE in their classrooms and have an intimate understanding of its power. Student advocacy reinforced Kettle Moraine’s implementation of CBE and expanded opportunities around personalized learning.

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Social Media Education Advocacy Personalized Learning 273

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. Older children have access to these solutions, so why not offer the opportunity for young learners?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The state of Montana, for example, manages 5.2 In at least four states, five tribal nations themselves are the lessees — paying the state for access to, collectively, more than 57,700 acres of land within their own reservation borders. million surface acres and 6.2 Tony Incashola Jr., Of all the Indigenous nations in the U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Virtual reality can spark interest in climate change and unleash the creativity of students by giving kids access to information in innovative ways. For example, teachers can use VR to simulate extreme weather conditions that affect drivers like snow, heatwaves, and flooding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2024

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic toppled the country’s long-eroding child care system, policymakers in Washington had a vision for tackling the sector’s most intractable challenges, including access, recruitment, retention and pay. Early anecdotal data from the Urban institute shows that quality has increased alongside educator pay.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

With access to programs designed to help them transition beyond high school, more neurodivergent students will have the skills they need to succeed when they get there, Elliot said. In 2020, an estimated 1 in 36 eight-year-olds had an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

School districts may not fully understand or comply with existing federal and state data privacy rules and regulations (or maybe only do so when it is in their best interests ), which suggests that more resources could be used to support implementation (such as training, technical assistance, model policies and practices, etc.)

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. call this “the access hypothesis.”

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

voices have been rising up to limit the content learners can access in school. And that is not only discriminatory, but it is a matter of life or death when a student cannot access suicide prevention lifelines, affirming resources that are vital to students navigating their queer identities. A voice is powerful. We have to show up.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. For example, we asked from the very beginning—and indeed throughout our nine-year effort— “What is best for ALL of our kids, especially those furthest from opportunity now?” We did get the balance right.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education.

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. . For example, their psychosocial scores were higher. Who would argue against it? Schools have embraced inclusion.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2024

Intel, which was named a grant recipient in March for over $8 billion, already offers a discount at local child care centers and priority enrollment for employees and has committed to increasing discounted access to more providers. The company also plans to pilot a reimbursement program for hourly workers. “As

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. Brennan McMahon Parton: Josh, thanks for talking to me about data literacy. Parton: It makes sense that data use is more of a challenge than data access.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Joyce : What’s different about this study and why is sharing these data so important? We actually have been working since 2017, to try to get this data project funded. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

According to Hoori Kalamkarian, a researcher at the Community College Research Center who also spoke Thursday, technology-assisted advising could play a role—provided that any data collected doesn’t algorithmically reinforce biases. Examples of what that might look like already exist at some campuses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We We need to change that.”. We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 114

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Coalition members have expressed an interest in pursuing solutions that equitably provide child care supports for employees such as increasing transparency by sharing their child care policies, data and best practices, and speaking out publicly on the importance of child care to U.S. That has led the company to expand its child care benefits.

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Policies Company Survey Industry 193

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, its annual Homecoming celebrations were hard to pull off virtually, she says. It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. None of them speak ‘Black space.’

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. Others suggest that universal access to child care is a communist policy, or that mothers should always stay home with their children.

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System Report Learning Industry 145

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. More than 40 percent of children in West Virginia under age 6 who need child care can’t access it, she explains, pointing to data from Child Care Aware and TEAM for West Virginia Children. ARPA funds allowed Gale to try new teaching activities.

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