EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The nonprofit broadband advocacy group found nearly 45 million students enjoy in-school access to high-speed internet connectivity, up from 39 million in 2017. schools meet the FCC’s short-term connectivity goal of 100Mbps per 1,000 users, while less than a quarter ( 22 percent ) meet the long-term goal.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They didn't want to work in groups. Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker. When we got into the classroom, the students were shy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

The schools that most successfully served their special education groups were those that prioritized communication and learning about families' needs, McKittrick found in her own analysis. Particularly, she points to the ones that asked questions such as, Do you have access to technology? Are you caring for anybody who is ill?

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Connect families with sign-up information and meeting times during the first months of school and keep families updated about any opportunities to get involved. Email is also an option accessible to most. Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But once the pandemic set in and schools closed their doors, the elaborately precarious systems that have been constructed to meet the needs of these students collapsed. Too often, students in special education are marginalized and lack access to the supports they need to develop academically, let alone as full human beings.

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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. A new networking group for community college program coordinators held its first call in February.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 13, 2024

Mental Health and Wellness Series OVERVIEW Library workers often face a variety of stressors such as tight deadlines, high workloads, and other challenges related to providing access to information and services. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com or in Niche Academy).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Conditions of being short-staffed and overworked, of doing more with less, of managing personal difficulties, and then facing challenges related both to access to information and to polarization--these can really get to be too much for librarians. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com or in Niche Academy).

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

However, many informal learning programs compound the privilege of those with access to them while traditionally underserved students are often denied the safe spaces and additional learning opportunities that OST learning experiences can provide. The importance of mapping your out-of-school-time learning ecosystem.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. Meet the Semifinalists ! The post XPRIZE: The Real Winners?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

An athlete who ran track and field, he set the university record in the 60-meter hurdles, but the conference meet that determined who would get athletic scholarships was canceled because because of Covid. He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. Miguel Agyei.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The purpose of the group is to connect district leaders committed to serving the mental health of students, educators, and their communities. . grapples with a nationwide increase in anxiety and depression , the Cook Center is meeting with students, educators, and families around the country to understand their biggest mental health issues.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

We asked Challenged to Challenger, MIND’s affinity group for colleagues with disabilities, to share why they view their disability as prideful. When asked why our affinity group, Challenged to Challenger, is an important space and how it has influenced their work at MIND, two major themes emerged.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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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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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. To share open-access resources like these, the initiative is currently seeking proposals to design a digital platform to host materials.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Young manages many such scholarships and has had to quickly pivot from her normal timelines and procedures to meet the needs of scrambling students and families. He knows Stanford meets full financial aid for its students, but the extra processes still add stress. “If

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A recent press release from the National Coalition for Digital Equity shared: A group of fourteen past-presidents of the American Association of School Librarians has come together to pool their expertise and experience to assist school librarians with strategies and resources helpful in addressing pandemic-exacerbated challenges.

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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. It also appears that English learners are being particularly adversely impacted by Covid-era schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

With it has come an increased awareness among college counselors and administrators about the importance of meeting the needs of every student — especially those who hold marginalized identities and may have experienced extraordinary hardship over the past two years. Related: Anxiety, depression hit students in underrepresented groups.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2020

According to recent data from InsideTrack’s Crisis Support Services team , students seeking support to help meet basic needs such as housing, food and medicine have increased by 203 percent from 2019. An independent evaluation of the overall program will be conducted by Cicero Group.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

Cybercriminals take advantage of any accessible information and, since adolescent identities and credit profiles are monitored less frequently, activity can go unnoticed until the victim is old enough to access credit. Instead, create an entirely new and unique password or pin number your children wouldn’t be able to guess. Conclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 9, 2023

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Today, people are working in groups. So what are some of the resources that counselors can access that will help them in this area? It’s completely free and very accessible. When they see that there’s a way for them to achieve this goal and support their students, it actually feels very accessible to them. Angela: Right.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The teacher dispatched him to a low-skill group. “It For those who continue to struggle in school, the ideal instruction is one-on-one or in a small group with a trained teacher who provides intensive and systematic assistance in making connections between written words and sounds. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

this week to discuss how to get more nontraditional students—such as full- and part-time workers, parents and other underrepresented groups—to and through college. For instance, which groups of students are getting flagged more, or which students receive more kudos.) College advisors and education leaders gathered in Nashville, Tenn.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 1, 2023

She also chaired the 2018 working group that revised ALA’s Library Bill of Rights for Diverse Library Collections. Her research interests include information access and intellectual freedom and censorship. She is a member of the Mapping Information Access research team. Frieda Afary, Philosophy M.A.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. This group will partner with events, organizations and school districts to make sure student voices are always part of the conversation around equity in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

They say that, despite endless commissions and study groups, the monuments of Confederate and pro-segregation leaders remain lodged on their campuses. We’ve had town halls and meetings, but no actual consequences for the students who committed racist acts,” said Brandon Lewis, a master’s degree student in atmospheric science at N.C.

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