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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

edWeb Blog data data analysisBy Michele Israel. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. COVID-19 was tough on schools, calling for swift shifts in teaching and learning practices to support virtual learning environments and a host of new pedagogical demands.

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School Libraries Work! 2016

NeverEndingSearch

You’ll want to keep this important advocacy tool on hand and share copies with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, students. Reaching beyond the state level, Sc hool Libraries Work shares findings from the National Center for Literacy Education, as well as School Library Journal’s analysis of the relationship between librarian staffing and the National Assessments of Educational Progress fourth-grade reading scores. advocacy school librarians school libraries

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Analysis K-12 NewsNow shuttered, this portion of J.V. Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. —

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Computer science claims slight victory in high schools

eSchool News

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. For the first time, a slim majority of all U.S.

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Homework: Helpful, Harmful, or Otherwise?

Reading By Example

This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. Advocacy Leadership principal as an advocate Reflection Teaching genius hour homework john hattieAs I write this, I am out on our back patio. My kids are in the neighbor’s backyard, flying a kite with friends. They had recently recovered the kite from a tree.

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Data-Driven Decision Making: Who’s the decider?

Reading By Example

Additionally, I don’t believe we should stop with our current approaches to data analysis. Advocacy Assessment classroom instruction Communication data qualitative data quantitative data RtI Technology Amanda Datnow digital portfolios Genesis Cratsenberg ILA Samantha Mosher Vicki Park

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment. Argument Analysis : Students compare and evaluate two posts from a newspaper’s comment section. Homepage Analysis : Students identify advertisements on a news website. Article Analysis : Students read a sponsored post and explain why it might not be reliable.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. That is probably why the results of the meta-analysis show that some children actually learn more in segregated settings.”.

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$750,000 in proposed cuts to Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools

Reading By Example

Source: Education Policy Analysis Archive s). • Advocacy budget cuts legislators private schools school choice vouchers Wisconsin Today, I wrote this post on our school’s blog. It will also serve as the front page for our school newsletter next week. We need to advocate for what’s right for our students, families and staff. To not advocate is to concede our authority as the experts in our profession.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Many students remain completely oblivious of the elements that comprise critical thinking, from observation and analysis to problem solving and communication. These curricula are also intended to demonstrate the importance of such analysis within social justice work.

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Planning for and Sustaining District Technology Innovations

edWeb.net

Using the total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis addresses the initial investment and the operational and support costs over the life of the investment for a district’s technology environment. Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast This edLeader Panel is presented by CoSN and AASA.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. The analysis found no difference in outcomes for students in Biology and Earth Science.

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Taking Districts’ Technology Integration to the Next Level

edWeb.net

The data should also be readily available for analysis, both for classroom instruction and district resource allocation, while being kept secure from inappropriate access. Blog post by Robert Low based on this edWebinar.

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OPINION: Too many Black and Latino students are ‘academically alone’ in advanced classes

The Hechinger Report

My friends without such advocacy found themselves systematically excluded from certain courses by the invisible hand of adults who did not know them and used the school schedule to cajole them toward courses and pathways that, over time, calcified and shaped their identities — and aspirations.

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

EdNews Daily

They are an excellent medium for teaching and learning, particularly in writing, STEM, and other subjects that require critical thinking and analysis. . A Tool for Self-Advocacy. Rubrics give students control over their academic progress through self-advocacy.

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Mapping Out-of-School-Time Opportunities: Why It Matters

Digital Promise

CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion. Take a step further than asset mapping and use Digital Promise’s toolkit for planning a social network analysis to see who in your network is already working together. If you want to plan strategically for the future, you have to know where you’re starting from in the present.

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OPINION: Why we need a proactively anti-racist scientific method

The Hechinger Report

These findings have been profoundly influential, and spurred much of our current advocacy efforts in early childhood today. But the study almost entirely left out rich layers of analysis — about race and racism — that could have made its findings even more powerful.

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PROOF POINTS: $1.5 billion in recovery funds go to afterschool

The Hechinger Report

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. Based on the spending patterns of more than 3,000 school districts , U.S.

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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

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.

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

Regardless of how and where homeless students find a place to sleep each night, their academic performance suffers equally, according to a 2019 analysis of state education data by the homeless advocacy group Building Changes. VANCOUVER, Wash.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states?

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Some Students Lose More Ground When School is Out

eSchool News

Our research analysis revealed reasons for both optimism and concern. Even before the pandemic, multi-lingual learners lost more ground than their peers during the summer when they were out of school,” said Eric Rodriguez , SVP of Policy and Advocacy at UnidosUS. Portland, Ore.

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Technology Made Special Education Parents Better Advocates During the Pandemic

Edsurge

But McKittrick’s analysis of school reopening plans for Fall 2020 revealed little mention of special education programs. They’re feeling better supported, and I think that’s helping them build self-advocacy and independence,” she says.

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Schools collect more data, but how is it used?

The Hechinger Report

We think that’s the hardest work left,” said Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign. “We Instead, data visualizations and user-friendly analysis can help the public make sense of complicated information. Brennan McMahon Parton, director of policy and advocacy at the Data Quality Campaign.

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Identity The Foundation of Self?Awareness

N2Y

Including families in the development of task analysis is programming for generalization. Just as one task analysis for folding towels does not meet the needs of every student, one tone in the symbols used for visual support does not represent every child.

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Before This Virus (On NYC Schools and COVID-19)

The Jose Vilson

A critical analysis of history reveals that, to the contrary, some won’t. When our parents of color think we haven’t named and addressed the challenges our actions present to the whole community sufficiently, we negatively complicate our advocacy, too.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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Interactive: Explore who gains most from canceling student debt

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger analysis of federal data provides additional dimensions to the picture of student debt. President Joe Biden, congressional leaders and debt experts continue to argue over student loan debt forgiveness — both how much should be canceled and which branch can offer relief.

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

Edsurge

While calling all this variety “a well-meaning attempt to give teachers and students more options,” LearnPlatform CEO Karl Rectanus said in the analysis that, “instead, it creates a confusing landscape for everyone involved.

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Pell changes could mean more eligible students, more money, more programs

The Hechinger Report

A recent New America data analysis showed that more than half of employed adults with a short-term certificate earned $30,000 or less per year and the median income ranged from $20,000 to $30,000.

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Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them.

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GoGuardian Finds Three Factors That influence K-12 Student Engagement Online and In-Person

eSchool News

classrooms to an online or hybrid model, this report also includes a supplemental analysis of existing research and literature on engagement in online learning, to provide context on how the themes discovered in the field research apply to the current distance learning environment.

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PROOF POINTS: Test-optional policies didn’t do much to diversify college student populations

The Hechinger Report

This kind of analysis is tricky since many colleges were becoming more diverse in recent decades, even if they didn’t adopt a test-optional policy.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. At Ronald D.

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Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans — so long as they’re for black kids

The Hechinger Report

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. According to an analysis of 2015-16 federal survey data by Politico and the nonprofit newsroom The Investigative Fund, “Seven of the 10 school systems statewide that used the most restraints and seclusions per special education student were charter school companies in New Orleans.”

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Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit advocacy group, said many apps have been “falsely marketed as educational” for years, even though there is no evidence that the apps actually help children learn. The iPhone App store offers dozens of apps aimed at preschool students. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it

The Hechinger Report

Last year alone, more than 900,000 low-income students who applied for and were found eligible for state financial aid for college never received it, because states ran out of money, according to a new analysis of state data by The Hechinger Report. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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How well does your state support children with dyslexia?

The Hechinger Report

The analysis comes a month after APM Reports produced a radio documentary called Hard To Read that told the stories of families fighting school districts to make sure their dyslexic children are properly taught to read. The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters.

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How Mississippi’s districts are separated into haves and have-nots

The Hechinger Report

For the analysis, EdBuild’s team compared student poverty rates in neighboring school districts across the country.

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What Happens When Low-Income College Students Borrow Free Laptops?

Edsurge

In 2017, a New York Times analysis found the institution had the highest median parent income of 27 higher selective public colleges, at $154,000. Low-income students really feel out of place at Michigan,” says Camille Mancuso, a junior and the vice president of the Michigan Affordability and Advocacy Coalition student group.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

The Hechinger Report

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America.

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