The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. It sounds complicated because it is. Related: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating. There are several reasons for this, Walsh said.

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Elementary Report Training Advocacy 145

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

And I was thinking to myself, “Kids can get an immersive experience that takes them places that you could never envision in a 2-D movie or in images in a slideshow or a PowerPoint or any way shape or form, or book. They truly become a part of the environment. Where does this technology fit? How they are discussing VR now.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: Bianca Vázquez Toness/Associated Press “This was about balancing the number of students in schools,” says Tiffany Fick, director of school quality and advocacy for Equity in Education, a policy organization in Atlanta. She runs through pre-kindergarten counting exercises on a phone. But it was also about race and class.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

The Oregon Tribal Student Grant covers tuition, housing and books at public institutions and some private universities for undergraduate and graduate students belonging to Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. Her credit score took a hit.

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Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 84

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

She received an early childhood credential from the American Montessori Society, one of the premier Montessori advocacy organizations. Since 2013, she has thoroughly engaged in the study of mindfulness, and she incorporates these exercises into both curriculum and parent-teacher education.

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 8, 2016

Hosted by Joe Rodriguez (@edtechjoe), 5th Grade teacher at The Ambassador School of Global Education in Los Angeles, the edcamp Global Kidcasts session featured Lindsey Patterson (@TumbleCast), co-host of the Tumble Science Podcasts for Kids and Kitty Felde, host and executive producer of Book Club for Kids. The Show About Science.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Among other things, Talbott says the book contained grammatical errors and introduced instructional ideas that teachers did not think supported students’ needs.) They have not spent a second thinking about what kind of environment they are recruiting people to,” says El-Mekki, who invokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s Finding a better way forward.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 23, 2016

Handing over an account to someone who is for the most part a complete stranger is a big exercise in trust. Members of our student book budget team purchased new books for our library with a James Patterson grant by surveying the school, setting goals, meeting with vendors, and marketing the order. Post 2-5 photos per day.

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Robotics Libraries Social Media Education 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. Before students left, Coen asked them to grade themselves on the exercise. She cited several books, including “Differentiation and the Brain” and “ Make it Stick ,” as supporting the approach.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 82

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

For over two decades, CoSN has provided leaders with the management, community building, and advocacy tools essential for success. Karen Cameron introduces us to Booktrack , a free web application that syncs digital books to audio, resulting in an immersive reading experience. Booktrack: An Immersive Reading Tool. What do you think?

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Conference Classroom Libraries Common Core 44

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to exercise. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. It didn’t always work. “I I didn’t have time to cook.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

In an effort to minimize screen time now that students are home all day, Rhode Island state education officials are promoting reading for leisure, with an at-home challenge for students to spend 20-60 minutes every day reading a book. Related: Evidence increases for reading on paper instead of screens.

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Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. Her older child’s teacher would rally kids back to class after breaks by sounding a police siren ?

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Policies Schoology Elementary Report 142

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

This turned out to be a rewarding exercise with surprises, twists, and turns. Several of these books appear on more than one category page, and so are double counted. Many of the books overlap in the course they are designed to support, and so are counted multiple times. First point. We’ve been at this for a while.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

There are promises about “brain training” exercises that will keep the brain “fit” as one ages. ( As Skinner wrote in his book Beyond Freedom and Dignity , “We need to make vast changes in human behavior… What we need is a technology of behavior." The research is iffy at best.).

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Technology Education Facebook Company 67

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Tuesday, March 4th at 12pm CST in Austin, TX Common Sense Media - Inspiring Advocacy through News and Digital Media , While technology provides exciting, innovative teaching opportunities, it also introduces tremendous challenges. Karen Cameron shares this 8 step exercise to teach students (and teachers) how to actively listen to their peers.

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 23, 2018

I wanted students to know that even at their age, they can speak up about things in the world that they want to see improve, and our students from 2 years ago were exercising that right. We looked at the book My Little Book of Big Freedoms illustrated by Chris Riddell. Next, we thought more broadly about our freedoms.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2018

This exercise will help students understand both the educational and training aspects of the career. In addition, besides the informational infographic they can create, they can also make an advocacy infographic for promoting this career. Students could easily use the data for creating an infographic about their chosen career/careers.

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Handbook Elementary Data Adobe 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 18, 2021

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. And then, I also tell them that Jay-Z had a great quote in his book Decoded , where he says that he talks about how his rap lyrics may not make sense to everybody. It was amazing.

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System Study Classroom Exercises 72

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”. Some used books with copyrights as early as 1995.

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Study Report Analysis Course 87

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

In light of the Appellants’ year-long battle to get the child into an appropriate school, it is not clear what else they could have done to have enrolled David,” the judge wrote, adding that the agency did not provide a “single credible instance where they failed to exercise the required minimum degree of care.”.

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Report Training System Data 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The modern library can also transcend the physical space, existing in a virtual realm without walls – one where students have the option to check out books anytime, anywhere. This was more than the number of print books borrowed. Some digital resources for school libraries are a virtual reality field trip. Holzweiss asked.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 88

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2019

But Arrowood ended up taking the book and joining the prison’s ad hoc study group, in which members purchased college textbooks and taught themselves various subjects. About 463,000 prisoners nationwide would be eligible for that financial aid, says Brian Walsh, of the Vera Institute of Justice, an advocacy group.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Chalkbeat’s Matt Barnum takes a close look at a new report from TNTP , the advocacy group formerly known as The New Teacher Project. Nature’s Nathaniel Comfort reviews the new book Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are : “ Genetic determinism rides again.” Watch and see).

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Despite the nation’s bitter party politics, residents of this county have traditionally exercised a neighborly pragmatism in which the kids — or, as Douglas prefers, “our babies” — come first. Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers. The policy ended up passing 4-0. Related: Who picks school curriculum?

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 135

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The CEO of Safari Books left the company “ amidst massive layoffs.” “It’s an exercise of power aimed at the public, and in a democratic society, power deserves attention and scrutiny, not gratitude.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s CEO resigned. ISTE’s CEO left “ unexpectedly.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40