Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So the dean asked Perreault and Gretchen Kopmanis, technology services office manager and Mac team lead, to devise a pilot program that would help low-income students get access to laptops—and maybe even improve their enrollment and retention rates, too. Most of the laptops the university recommends for students cost upwards of $1,000.

Laptops 123

Laptops Analysis Advocacy Social Media 123

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

For CLX, that meant creating a city-wide catalogue of the landscape of out-of-school-time (OST) programs offering learning experiences with digital media tools and technology (DMTT) citywide. In the same vein, CLX hopes its data will help Chicago understand the importance of informal DMTT-focused learning experiences for the city’s students.

Data 264

Data Report Survey Advocacy 264

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In our California research, although my co-authors and I found that 97% of school districts reported distributing some learning technologies to students —far fewer reported any further efforts to support families’ usage of the devices. It’s critical that we attend to the full range of lessons the pandemic offers.

Education 142

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 142

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. Rubrics change that.

Learning 182

Learning Advocacy Assessment Meeting 182

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report released by GoGuardian , an education technology company supporting thousands of K-12 schools and over eight million students through powerful tools and research, captures field research from the GoGuardian Research and Insights team, with insights from more than 450 students, teachers, administrators and policy leaders across the U.S.

Student Engagement 70

Student Engagement Advocacy Outcomes Report 70

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Related: Can technology improve preschool? 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.

Report 111

Report Android iPhone Advocacy 111

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The move adds about 50 percent more members to that division, the Education Technology Industry Network. While most of the members of the EIA are not large and represent regional tutoring and learning centers, there are also some financial institutions on the list, including BMO Capital Markets, First Analysis Corp.,

Industry 40

Industry Technology Education Software 40

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

You’ll want to keep this important advocacy tool on hand and share copies with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, students. In addition, the document is filled with visuals and quotes to use in any local advocacy effort. Through School Libraries Work!,

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Analysis Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. While effective, these methods were unsustainable, because teachers had to do much of the data tracking and analysis manually, according to the paper.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

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. But that’s no reason not to share it. Why Would Adopting OER Change Student Outcomes?

OER 159

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

“In the policy world, we spend so much time talking about how you get from the pilot stage to scale, but what makes South Carolina unique is that there was no pilot,” said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with KnowledgeWorks.

Personalized Learning 104

Personalized Learning Policies Learning Competency Based Learning 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program. Institution.

STEM 104

STEM Industry Data Survey 104

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. Teachers have essential access to data, but they need greater understanding of data interpretation and analysis. I also see a co-planning element reinforcing the data analysis.

Data 60

Data Analysis Assessment Training 60

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

At a time when parents, teachers and advocacy groups are increasingly concerned about the uses of educational data, these researchers want to send a clear message about the differences between commercial and research data. These achievements explain why academic researchers are distinguishing their work from those done for commercial reasons.

Company 96

Company Data EdTech Policies 96

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind. Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D., Cynthia Schultz, Esq.,

E-rate 43

E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 43

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

“We still have quite a few people who are out of work who are looking at opportunities to get back into the labor market,” said Karen Elzey, associate executive director of the advocacy organization Workcred, which pushes for improvements to the workforce credentialing system. Nursing students at Sacred Heart University.

Kaplan 128

Kaplan Training Report Survey 128

edWeb.net

JANUARY 18, 2023

Total Cost of Ownership Educational technology comes with direct and indirect costs. 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.

Technology 91

Technology Outcomes BYOD Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

Digital Divide 120

Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. It’s a long road of recovery.”

Study 139

Study Data Report Elementary 139

edWeb.net

MARCH 21, 2022

The data should also be readily available for analysis, both for classroom instruction and district resource allocation, while being kept secure from inappropriate access. At the final “transformative” level, districts will be using predictive and prescriptive analysis to increase student learning and improve administrative decision making.

Technology 75

Technology Analysis Software BYOD 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results. Although whites and Asians also have poor pass rates in these low-level remedial classes, the inewsource/Hechinger Report analysis found that Latino students are twice as likely as whites to end up in the lowest level of remedial English.

Report 111

Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2017

“This is just another systemic disadvantage that we put in front of low-income kids and kids of color,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research at The Education Trust, a nonprofit advocacy organization. But many admissions offices don’t have the resources to do that level of analysis.

Report 104

Report Study Advocacy Policies 104

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 31, 2018

in Education Technology program at Long Island University. Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was the winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Competency Based Learning Study Policies 49

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our mission within the Office of Information and Analysis is to provide solutions that support more effective teaching and learning. Building the collection To build and expand our collection, our technology team solicits insights from the departments that have provided funding. Aligning with our public library using a single platform.

Data 104

Data Advocacy Libraries eBook 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

At first aimed solely at science, technology, engineering and math majors, they appear to have kept some from quitting; in a test run, 28 percent of students who received nudges dropped out after the first semester, compared to 44 percent who chose not to receive the nudges. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

Course 130

Course Report Policies Study 130

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

For example: Analysis from The Washington Post suggests that homeschools have seen a more than 50 percent increase in students since the pandemic, making it the type of school with the most explosive growth , during a time when it is estimated that public schools lost about 4 percent of their enrollment.

Groups 149

Groups Common Core Advocacy Analysis 149

MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2017

There is also new research indicating that school-based interventions to promote social and emotional skills have large, and long-term, positive impacts: an average of $11 for every dollar invested, according to an analysis by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (which is a supporter of NPR). Character education has a long history in the U.S.,

Advocacy 75

Advocacy Analysis Trends Examples 75

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

Training 181

Training Classroom Report Groups 181

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Some institutions are letting students graduate in three years instead of four; this can save them money and increase capacity on campus but a Johns Hopkins University analysis says these schools are mostly just condensing their four-year timetables, making it hard for any but the most academically prepared students to finish in three years.

Course 88

Course Policies Report Study 88

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. And it’s [a] night and day difference.”.

Study 42

Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

This is part ten of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Perhaps it’s no surprise that there was so much talk this year about education, technology, and emotional health. Classroom Management and Persuasive Technologies. " Teaching machines, he argued, would be one such technology.

Technology 67

Technology Education Facebook Company 67

edWeb.net

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dr. Aiken said the team quickly marginalized the attack and, with a post-event analysis, helped stop future attacks. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders.

Training 93

Training Professional Learning Data Advocacy 93

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Representative Stephen Meeks (R-Greenbrier) proposed a study to see when elementary schools should introduce computers, tablets and other technology to their students.

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Representative Stephen Meeks (R-Greenbrier) proposed a study to see when elementary schools should introduce computers, tablets and other technology to their students.

EdTech 150

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Additionally, I don’t believe we should stop with our current approaches to data analysis. (To read an excerpt from my book describing Genesis’s work, click here.). I hope this post comes across as food for thought and not finger-wagging.

Data 33

Data Secondary Analysis Assessment 33

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

Learning 218

Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. How accurate is her data? (I’d

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56