The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2021

It definitely throws them off track,” said Samuel West, District P-16 director at Houston Community College. Generally if fewer students are taking dual enrollment that’s likely to be a net negative for college access and enrollment after a student graduates high school,” Perry predicted.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. What characteristics make them potentially disruptive?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Julie: Well, I am very passionate about the fact that I think that all children should have equal access to education. All Children Should Have Equal Access To Education. Some children have access to quality education, and some children don’t. Most definitely. Julie Hembree is definitely somebody you want to follow.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I prefer to use it instead of a computer because I have easier access to the tablet than the library computers. I downloaded the app when I received my school iPad from our Library Media Specialist ( @DebZemanLMS ), after seeing it on Self Service, an app store used in our district to make sure we download apps for education purposes.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 5, 2015

Nearly every speaker assigned a growing importance to access and engagement. I’m fascinated by how much these themes resonate in the education and library worlds. Access and engagement: major themes for libraries, obviously, if somewhat controversial in post-secondary education. emphases added].

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Reading By Example

MARCH 30, 2019

This book would definitely work as a read aloud for upper elementary and invite students to explore more books by Snyder. Definitely a book to have in the secondary classroom library to build diversity and cultural relevance. It was hard for him (us) to put it down. Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. A graphic memoir (?)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

But, even as the number of students declined, the schools still served a secondary purpose as community hubs — hubs that residents are intent on getting back. “ Research on the impact school closures have on children and communities isn’t definitive , but the effect appears to be increasingly negative for low-income children and communities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. He writes and speaks about academic librarianship, learning technologies, library leadership, higher education, open and affordable learning, design thinking and user experience.

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Saving Socrates

JUNE 20, 2013

One of my favorite places in the whole wide world is Columbia Library. The library building in its current manifestation is perfect. How useful that is in everyday classes is definitely something that can be argued against. In fact, real solid accreditation of any university or secondary institution is conducted this way.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Well, for starters, I mean, not that Wikipedia is the most reliable source, but it definitely helps in terms of kind of getting an overview of what the issue is here. Might we rethink how we introduce a pervasive and important and ubiquitously accessible tool like Wikipedia to the student researcher’s toolkit? Connaway, L.

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iLearn Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Students can use the pre-selected images, choose an image from the My Simple Show library of images, or upload their own image or picture. Be sure to give your students access to My Simple Show in your Maker Space, it is a great option for students to choose! In the final step, students add audio.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H. I think the issue is more affordability.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I would definitely not give up on public schools,’’ she said. India will need some 3 million new primary school teachers by 2030 and over eight million secondary, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates. “If Back at GSSS Damodora, lecturer Ballani is more concerned about classroom space and equipment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more. In my post I wrote, 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. Stephen’s goal is access for all.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

We''re building new calendars for major conferences and events in the library, education, museum, and nontraditional education arenas--you can access these calendars through the top menu of the website. Please check out our list and let us know if we can add any others! New Events Calendars. Thanks, Karen!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I made what was probably the clearest statement of my vision for the future of learning materials in my Shuttleworth Fellowship application several years ago: My long-term goal is to create a world where OER are used pervasively throughout primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Verso only charges a premium option if you want access to a library of pre-made Activities (as of the publication of this entry, this upgrade costs $59 a year); otherwise, the platform is free. in Secondary Education Language Arts. I attended the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) and graduated with a B.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Elijah Corbin Irving, a senior at Snowden International School in Boston, uses the American Student Assistance’s Boston Public Library College Planning Center as a resource. This change will give students extra time to get familiar with the questions and seek answers from knowledgeable adults. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

We definitely want Newark students to feel like this is a place where they can come and succeed,” said Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, which is playing a key role in the local drive to boost the share of city residents who hold college degrees and other post-secondary credentials from 12.2

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. This contest was definitely an example of the latter. Half of the groups I saw made publicly accessible web pages, built with WordPress, Google Sites, or Wix .

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

So the following list of public education terms is useful not so much for the definitions, but for the credibility (or at least authority) of the definitions, as they are sourced from the Department of Education itself, in this case in regards to clarify Race to the Top language and meaning. To clarify your own misconceptions.

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Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I definitely would have. Portillo earned some cash toward her expenses by getting a work-study job on campus, part of a nearly $1 billion federal financial aid program that pays students for such jobs as shelving library books and bussing tables. It’s just like a supplement.” And that’s the sad thing — there’s kids that need that.”.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Grading for Growth and Intentional Academia are secondary hubs -- long-form writing that has a special place. In fact I pay for LinkedIn Premium to have access to their huge library of excellent online courses. Otherwise, I definitely do not need more social media in my life. What about Mastodon?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. Who might benefit from such a restrictive definition of universities?

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Montana, whose governor is very pro-preschool, won a federal Preschool Development Grant in 2014 , planning to use the funds to “improve access to high quality preschool education in 16 high needs communities,” according to the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Related: See where public preschool access and quality overlap.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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