Waterford

JULY 30, 2023

3] Engaged families report trusting teachers more and understand more clearly the role school plays in their child’s life.[2] Writing for Districtadministration.com , Morris notes that successful family engagement begins by centering on families and their needs, just like teachers center children in their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

About 23 percent of Latino adults between the ages of 25 and 29 have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 45 percent of their white peers, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center report. The post Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Quite often, in the classroom or the boardroom, introverts are forgotten, especially when the loudest person always runs the show. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Transforming The Classroom to Support Innovative Introverts. Create Student-Centered Classrooms. Spread Awareness.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Behind the scenes of each classroom in our district, there are many hands at work. One of every five requests in the U.S. A New Barrier Emerges Our suburban Missouri school district serves around 16,500 students.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Television coverage included this report by NBC10’s Stephanía Jiménez: For me, one of the most powerful moments was Kayla Johnson’s poignant recognition of her privilege , as a student who attended Philadelphia schools that still had librarians through her whole K12 experience. She has called it home for eight years.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. It’s not even guaranteed that district- and school-based staff are aware of the mandate at all.

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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. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Photo: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice. “We KILLINGTON, Vt. It’s engaging.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms. For the past 25 years, U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Our new report, Computational Thinking for a Computational World , draws from research and interviews with leaders around the country to answer the essential question: In a computational world, what is important to know and know how to do? Click here to read the full report. Supporting educators to teach computational thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report So, what happened in Tennessee?

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2021

A new report examines some of the biggest challenges related to assessments and accountability, and offers recommendations for educators and policymakers as they move past spring 2021 and aim to improve student success rates. The overall goal?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

To better understand how using technology can create equity in schools, we’ll outline how technology creates more equitable situations in the classroom. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2023

As we’ve reported in the past, some teachers have clearly expressed that tech tools should support and not replace their expertise. Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. Pre-pandemic, we saw a lot more interest in one-off pilot programs. Sometimes there are tears, admits Joseph.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. The report highlights the pivotal role state leaders and policymakers play in helping districts and schools implement high-speed broadband and wi-fi in schools. . State Advocacy for Federal Support of Broadband.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While some of the recent efforts focused on recruiting more teachers of color have paid off, keeping those teachers in our schools and classrooms is an urgent challenge. Next, it’s time to build on access with resources, information, and opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

For example, from the beginning of their college search, most have far more limited resources to help them navigate the application process, including less access to guidance and support from advisers; that lack is usually not erased once they arrive on campus. I saw this firsthand during my time in student affairs at Stanford University.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2024

I was in a classroom with 3-year-olds and I had to leave my position, unfortunately. You’re never going to be able to have the resources to staff a campaign to go to 50,000 work sites to talk to folks. The post Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report. We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2022

The Washington Post’s Fatal Force tracker reports that more than 1,050 people have been killed by police in the past 365 days. We do this first by equipping our educators with the resources they need to effectively teach our students our hardest historical lessons, including George Floyd’s death and the history that envelops it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

As a student from rural Kentucky attending a predominantly white school, I’ve been in numerous classroom conversations in which “edgy” humor has been used to propagate radical politics and conspiracies, including the one about the alleged microchip inside Covid-19 vaccines. It is easy to enter an extremist pipeline.

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Waterford

APRIL 10, 2020

In fact, practicing self-care can be in the best interest of everyone in your classroom. Over 40% of teachers report feeling high stress every day during the school year, which ties teaching with nursing as having the highest stress rate of any career.[13] National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom. Other parents report simply being called almost every day to pick up their child early. Department of Education released guidance that clarified regularly sending a child home early was likely akin to a suspension, and should be reported by the school.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A recent report on reading performance from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that 63 percent of students in 4 th grade are reading at a “basic” or “below basic” level. Teachers can also invite lawmakers into their classrooms to see firsthand how legislation affects teaching and learning. By Glen Miller.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Preschool classrooms with behavioral consultation services, such as Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), have recorded significantly lower expulsion rates. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

“This latest research higlights that while students are back in classrooms it does not mean that all is back to pre-pandemic “normal” even though there are early signs of some stabilization. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. That is concerning from a workforce diversity perspective,” says Elizabeth Steiner, the co-author of the report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

. — A year and a half ago, a student of color called me in the middle of the school day and told me that a School Resource Officer (SRO) had harassed her for taking a trip to the bathroom with no hall pass. When she exited, he followed her back to her classroom with a hand on his gun. How did we get here?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why, even though half the school’s students still learn remotely, Santiago-Diaz and two other social workers, along with the two school resource officers, spend half their work day doing in-person home visits. McInerney said the school tried to be “as cost conscious as possible and save in other areas.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The Newark Board of Education (NBOE) has joined forces with Prudential Financial , Schools That Can , and Discovery Education to create an innovative public-private partnership that supports student academic achievement and builds confidence in math skills through a unique suite of dynamic digital resources.

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Education Social Media Professional Learning Resources 56

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

After spending over two decades working to advance racial equity in education through advocacy and philanthropy, I took a new job last year that has allowed me to see this work from the inside out. We always stressed that pushing to meet “standards” without such support will never lead to the academic results we all care about.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza, a freshman at Life Academy in Oakland, said her school board must be held accountable to the district’s 36,000 students, 85 percent of whom are people of color , and ensure that all of its schools are “getting the resources they need.”. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report Photo by Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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