Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. Students can access learning materials outside of school. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S.

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MindShift

MAY 28, 2020

students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. Kids from low-income homes are three times more likely not to have consistent access to a device. Four out of 10 of the poorest U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. All of the supplies, equipment and tools, everything is open, and kids have access to it,” Kurani said.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million students received special education services as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In early 2020, 7.3

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. A series of Read Like a Historian videos prepares educators to effectively launch this type of learning in their classrooms. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. Kirtley credits the spread of the model in part to the efforts of educator unions. Education Technology Access and Affordability Diversity and Equity

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

LISTEN: Career-switchers find they need more education to get new jobs, even in fields that didn’t previously require it. That’s when Moody realized something else she shares with many of those other workers who want to switch careers: She’d need more education to get a new one.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

More than a third of bachelor’s degree recipients nationwide said in a Gallup survey that they would go back and change their major if they could. Seven percent of first-year students arrive at college not having picked a major , that national UCLA survey found. BOULDER, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

million students can’t obtain their transcripts from public and private colleges and universities that block them from access for having unpaid balances as low as $25 or less. All these people are locked out of continuing their educations. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Vaughn feared how her absence would affect her children’s education. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While conventional education institutions have long offered what they call short-term training, what they often mean by that is “shorter than it takes to get a degree.” Joe Battista, Valencia College’s vice president for global, professional and continuing education. ORLANDO, Fla.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Her parents wanted to get her a special education designation — and all the supports that came with it. The short answer, according to special education lawyers and advocates across the country, is no. Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We It’s easy to see why many students feel pressure around education and career choices. WINTHROP, Wash.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. STRATFORD, Conn. —

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, that image demeans the dire situation of students experiencing food and housing insecurity in higher education. They also found that one in 10 students surveyed experienced homelessness in the same time period.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 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. Schools are legally obligated to create meaningful post-schooling plans for students with disabilities as part of their Individualized Education Programs, or IEPs. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. Ryan Fuhrman, chairman of the Wyoming State Board of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

Department of Education, for reasons including cost and access. said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

One reason Back a Boiler has been suspended is that program servicer Vemo Education went out of business, said Brian Edelman, president of the Purdue Research Foundation. In its March announcement, the Department of Education declared that ISAs are by definition private education loans.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Related: Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future. It’s a good way to bridge the gap between what students learn and what employers say they need them to know, said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In the past, said Brandon Stokes, director of retention and student success at Meredith, “some students, especially considering how anxiety has crept into higher education, would have a horrible experience and even be paralyzed by the stress” of picking their own schedules.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 18, 2016 at 4:39am PST. The Georgia State Department of Education was inviting educators to apply to takeover their Instgram account for one week. A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 18, 2016 at 5:49am PST. A photo posted by GA Department of Education (@georgiadeptofed) on Jan 19, 2016 at 9:43am PST.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. Higher education is falling behind, hospitals are stretched thin and getting through programs can be an arduous journey.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. Most Americans who cannot access the internet on a daily basis come from underrepresented and historically marginalized communities, including individuals with disabilities, from low-income backgrounds and those living in rural areas. Education Technology Policy & Government Access and Affordability School Infrastructure

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. million kids statewide lacked access to Wi-Fi and computers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Graduate students can also borrow an unlimited amount toward their educations, unlike undergraduates, whose borrowing is capped. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education. The St.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

At a morning panel on Thursday, Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of higher education Policy at Temple University, started the conversation by providing some context and statistics from the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, which she founded. Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College One college that has started to survey its students on these issues is Amarillo College, in Texas. We have to be calling that out and educating on that.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a strategy now buttressed by a new survey of 6,000 recent graduates, which found that the earlier college students had started looking for a job — and preparing for it by participating in internships and other career-related experiences — the happier they eventually were with their careers. But the survey, by the enrollment consulting firm EAB , found that only a minority of students take this path. Sign up here for our higher education newsletter.

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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 Department of Education says.). Department of Education reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Three years after enrolling, one-third had quit, compared to about a quarter of students whose parents have a university degree, the Education Department reports. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Baffled by declining enrollments, Murphy plans to survey students this fall about their attitudes toward language learning. Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 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 Education Week : “Reorganization of U.S. Lots of Republicans , Few Democrats,” says Education Week. There’s another story on DeVos and virtual schools down in the “online education” section below.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

But it’s among the ways critics warn some well-meaning reforms designed to solve the many challenges in higher education are threatening to water down its quality or benefiting students who don’t need help. secretary of education who is among those raising caution flags. Remedial education, which forces some college students to re-take math and English they should have learned in high school, is being eliminated in states including Florida and California.

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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. Higher Education. It’s too early to know how many students will take up the offer, which was mostly pushed by community colleges, said Patricia Shea, who oversees it for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Veterans in College Source: National Veteran Education Success Tracker. While the VA furnished data for the survey — called the National Veteran Education Success Tracker, or NVEST — it was conducted by the independent National Student Clearinghouse in collaboration with the advocacy group Student Veterans of America and reviewed by researchers from the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University and the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Among the education highlights: Republican VP candidate Mike Pence made up a name for the university hosting the event. Actually, I think that was the only education highlight. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Education Politics. Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department slammed for charter school oversight – by its own watchdog office.”

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Smartphones don’t equal home access: Students may have a phone, but that doesn’t mean they have home WiFi, unlimited data, or live in an area with a strong signal. Administrators need to have a detailed home survey for every student to understand how to serve them. Teachers have access issues too: Not all teachers have high-speed internet or unlimited data either. Adjust access and support accordingly. Stacey Pusey is an education communications consultant and writer.

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