Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of life, how school districts leveraged technology, engaged students in powerful learning, and supported learners and their families fundamentally shifted. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Benjamin Herold of Education Week has put together a real cracker of a series on the challenges of ensuring school broadband access in rural communities – and how E-rate (pre- and post-modernization) is helping to address the situation. We should demand more of our political leaders and from our education advocacy organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The Hechinger Report is using her son’s middle name to protect his privacy. Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. After school, he’d tinker with toy cars, or help his dad, a mechanic, fix things around the house.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. PIRG report, however, says the actual contracts tell a different story.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. How would you respond to that?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Subscribe today!

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. ” Next page: Why low-income students could be even more at risk for losing internet access. .” “This is critical.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

To advocate for and on behalf of effective online teaching and learning practices, four organizations are joining forces to establish the National Council for Online Education. Department of Education about distance learning regulations. Online [learning] has this perceived close association with for-profit education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. But few of these apps are developmentally appropriate and most fail to teach in ways preschoolers need to learn. Those are the findings of a report recently released by researchers at the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

The way we access information and interact with each other is new. Girls everywhere need access to STEM learning beyond the classroom that gives them the freedom to be curious and explore and gain confidence in STEM. In our own STEM journeys, we learned what it feels like to be the “only.”

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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. Historically, students from low-income families have had less access to algebra in eighth grade, too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The “$10 a Day” child care initiative, as it’s known in British Columbia, has been life-changing for parents. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

It’s time to acknowledge and address this narrative that adversely affects our youth’s learning experiences and the education system. Providing a safe dialogue space helps students learn how to communicate effectively, build empathy and establish trust with their peers and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. were struggling to adjust to remote learning. We saw it in our U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report Last year, New Orleans added more than 1,000 child care seats for children from low-income families after voters approved a historic property tax increase in 2022. New Orleans is part of a growing trend of local communities passing ballot measures to expand access to child care.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report. .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It also enables the school to focus on providing tailored social-emotional learning. On a phone call with EdSurge, Monarch School’s CEO said that social-emotional learning was the school’s priority. A 2020 report for the U.S. So why do critics say the very idea of a school for the homeless is “problematic?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She shared that when he was in third grade, school officials had used a so-called discrepancy model that compared intelligence quotient (IQ) with reading performance to rule that he didn’t have a learning disability. “I continue to use an iteration of the discrepancy model to test children for learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. 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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

That was the thought the Chicago Learning Exchange (CLX) had when creating their most recent report, “ Engaging Youth in a Connected World ,” in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Outlier Research. Furthermore, OST programs are uniquely equipped to provide students with access to experiences with DMTT.

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Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Email is also an option accessible to most. Want to maximize family engagement in your schools? Redding, S.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The new statistics come from the 2021 State of Computer Science Education: Accelerating Action Through Advocacy , released by Code.org, the Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Davenport’s tuition prices will apply to the Casa Latina programs, but accepted students will be awarded scholarships of $9,200 per year to help make the program more accessible financially. The post Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Someone would need to pick her up before noon every day, even as the rest of her peers continued learning and playing together. This year, millions of students have had their schooling curtailed, prompting serious discussions about the effects of lost learning time. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That’s 14% of K–12 students in public schools in the United States who depend on additional—and often very specialized—services to support their ability to learn and live their lives fully. A whole-child approach to special education will help accelerate the learning of this unique population. In early 2020, 7.3

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

percent for students who started in fall 2014, according to a 2020 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. The national six-year college completion rate was 60.1

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

While the learning curve has been steep in terms of new technology, and there have been some expected kinks to work out, virtual learning has brought some opportunities that an immediate return to in-person learning may not have. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Online access for families has also helped the district engage parents. “I Subscribe today! The program received $7.17

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

Students with disabilities, and especially those with invisible disabilities that affect how they learn, often struggle because of public misperceptions and stigmas. The attention, in the recent admissions scandal, on accommodations in standardized testing for students with learning disabilities did not help. This is no accident.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

As the winter turns to spring and pandemic learning reaches its one-year mark, something like a return to normal, in-person schooling is becoming a reality in communities across the country. Until in-person learning can fully resume, family members are the only adults who regularly work with students on distance learning assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

More than 99 percent of schools nationwide have access to speedy and reliable internet, making online learning an option for their students. School buildings are closed because of coronavirus, and the bandwidth that powered digital learning for kids is going unused. schools is effectively closed. Only, now it doesn’t matter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Head Start centers make up one-third of the center-based child care programs available in some of Mississippi’s most rural areas, providing critical child care services, access to health care, and early intervention services that children may not otherwise get, according to a new report. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

The time has come to face up to a troubling fact: Affirmative action is a policy designed to affect access to higher education, but many colleges have never sufficiently addressed their role in preparing students for a successful transition to life in college or gone beyond a laissez-faire approach to providing supports once they get in.

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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. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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