The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America, said she’s worried that the “domino effect” started by the delayed FAFSA is going to eventually affect college completion rates. The post ‘Simpler’ FAFSA complicates college plans for students, families appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. Slowly, she has tried to replace the missing documents.

Policies 79

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 79

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.

E-rate 136

E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 136

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Who has access to it? But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. Candidly, this was not something we expected to see,” said Elizabeth Laird, senior fellow on student privacy at the CDT, during an online event with education reporters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Native advocates said some students don’t have this kind of documentation even when they are enrolled in a recognized tribe. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

Before Savannah took the SAT, she faced the extra step of documenting her disability to secure extra time. For instance, at Smith College , a selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, the percentage of students reporting a disability rose from 9 percent in the fall of 2008 to 24 percent in the fall of 2017.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Called SwiftStudent , the website walks students through the documents and forms they need in order to submit a financial aid appeal to their institution’s aid office. Even more, the report noted that schools “are not required to inform students about the dependent care allowance.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. The post Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

Advocacy 99

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gaisford spoke about the State Educational Technology Directors Association and the EdTech Trends Report , which was created to track the impact of technology on education across the country. The program had three foundational components: access to technology, professional learning for teachers, and technical support.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

This document spells out what services and accommodations students with disabilities must get from their school districts. Experts say that’s common, and parents often don’t realize what rights their children have when it comes to accessing a full day of school. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

She reported it through official channels, she said, but never got so much as an apology — and the white student continued to say the word. When a student announced during a physics lab that the reason there weren’t more Black physicists was that Black people had naturally lower IQs, Dodor reported it. I changed majors.”. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Earlier this month, ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter released a scathing report, “ High School Non-Confidential Report: How School-Loaned Computers May Be Peering Into Your Home ,” that blasted the lack of safeguards to protect students’ privacy. The concerns raised in the report are not hypothetical nor without merit.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. I watched training videos, sampled lesson clips, and read every document sent to me by 51Talk trainers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

I’m Jon Marcus with The Hechinger Report … Kirk: And I’m Kirk Carapezza with GBH. I remember when Mount Ida College shut down here in Newton, people started calling me because they heard me on the radio reporting this, and they said, ‘I’m thinking about sending my kid to this school. Jon: This is College Uncovered.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When she’d shown up at the financial aid office of a Houston Community College campus at age 19, she was told she couldn’t receive tuition money without documentation from her parents—the same parents from whom she’d been estranged for three years. That’s important to Mills, who remembers having to report her GPA on scholarship applications.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Television coverage included this report by NBC10’s Stephanía Jiménez: For me, one of the most powerful moments was Kayla Johnson’s poignant recognition of her privilege , as a student who attended Philadelphia schools that still had librarians through her whole K12 experience. She has called it home for eight years.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. Access to connectivity is vital to a successful classroom BYOD policy, so these issues are largely taken care of by an institution. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. The document simply says, “No grade.”.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. Attached is a document that highlights the benefits of HB 6. members/ You could also follow up with a quick email urging them to support the bill and email the attached document. It is reposted here with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. trillion worth of outstanding national student loan debt , the College Board reports; each owes three times more , on average, than an undergraduate, according to the Urban Institute. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

And a committee of the principal national faculty union is at work on a position paper documenting problems with some dual-enrollment programs. “I Photo: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Common Sense Kids Action, the advocacy arm of Common Sense Media, and SETDA will work together this year and in 2016 and 2017 to encourage digital leaders to file applications for E-rate program funding. “It is essential that every child in our country be able seamlessly access digital resources.

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E-rate Broadband Libraries Advocacy 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. To encourage writing, students must keep an engineering journal where they document their ideas and keep track of their progress. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. PLEASANT, S.C. In 2020, the C.E.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. Girls have easier access to same-gender reading role models (moms, pre-school and elementary teachers, school librarians and children’s librarians are typically female), and now they also have access to role models in male-dominated fields and professions. Ripley’s findings.

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Advocacy Knowledge Base Accessibility Report 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive. This flaw in higher education is not obscure; it is codified into federal law.

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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. For the better part of the school year, they tried to learn from home.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

My previous two posts have described how schools can improve access for students of color and students living in poverty to follow their passions and have more voice in choice in their learning. In the first post , I summarize an Education Week article by Dr. Kimberlee Everson who makes a strong case for schools to pursue these goals.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

My previous two posts have described how schools can improve access for students of color and students living in poverty to follow their passions and have more voice in choice in their learning. In the first post , I summarize an Education Week article by Dr. Kimberlee Everson who makes a strong case for schools to pursue these goals.

Student Engagement 28

Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Groups such as the Consortium of School Networking, or CoSN, a K-12 tech education advocacy group, have long been calling on the FCC to update the E-Rate program to include more cybersecurity protections, said CoSN’s CEO Keith Krueger. “We’ve We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 111

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The promotion allows teachers and schools to test out the Bloomz Premium subscription, which offers exclusive tools to communicate and coordinate with their parent community, such as unlimited storage for teachers and administrators, engagement reports, premium calendar, and more. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 60

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

The workforce, which is predominantly made up of women, many of them Black and Latina, often receives little to no compensation and has minimal access to resources to support their work. What difference might it make if these child care providers had access to support networks, training and financial resources?

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Meeting Resources Accessibility Policies 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. The building is not completely ADA accessible. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. Whitney Curtis for The Hechinger Report. The state audit of the Fox C-6 School District in the small town of Arnold, Missouri, was brutal.

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Report Industry Company Conference 73

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Using data well “ensures that students aren’t just counted but that each student counts,” says Data Quality Campaign (DQC), a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization that works for changes in policy and practice around data flow. But DQC has a healthy resource bank that provides ways to support and join its advocacy efforts.

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Policies Data Resources Advocacy 61