Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As she made progress toward her major, chemistry, and needed fewer courses directly related to that degree, the state grant she relied on covered fewer of her credit hours, leaving her with thousands more dollars to pay. That meant she couldn’t sign up for courses for the upcoming semester. Of course I said yes.” She felt stuck.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Connecting secure datasets such as absenteeism and homework completion with formative mathematics assessments, for example, allows educators to consider why issues may be happening, decide on a course of supportive action, and then use data to determine effectiveness. Here are some examples.

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Accessibility Technology E-rate Data 335

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I’m deeply grateful for the support and collegiality of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation over this time, including for allowing me to attend this year’s annual OER meeting. Much of the discussion at the meeting focused on the many compelling benefits of OER adoption and use, including but not limited to cost savings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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The Jose Vilson

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

But we have a plethora of examples over generations of intrepid youth taking time out of their own schedules to push adults to get it together. So, of course, when I got a chance to speak to MacDonald directly, I said exactly this with the hope and she and others like her didn’t take it to mean that I didn’t appreciate their work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

According to the course description, topics include executive functioning and time management; social cognition, context awareness and how to take on the perspective of another person; communication and relationship skills, and self-advocacy. In 2020, an estimated 1 in 36 eight-year-olds had an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

It must be built into strategic plans year-long, designed into policies, meetings, and resources, and a mindset used in all interactions, decisions, and planning. For example, the larger font sizes on your slide deck benefit those with low vision but also those sitting at the back of the room, who forgot their glasses, or who have a headache.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. There’s no free-and-reduced lunch at college.

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E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The basic course teaches students productivity applications and critical-thinking skills that are needed in today’s work environment. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 145

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

The most recent issue of IRRODL included an article titled Effectiveness of OER Use in First-Year Higher Education Students’ Mathematical Course Performance: A Case Study , by Juan I. Venegas-Muggli and Werner Westermann. If you’re not familiar with educational research, 6x is a massive effect. .

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Khan Academy OER Case Study System 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

In addition to English-language learners and students with disabilities, children on the cusp of meeting the standard may also avoid being held back if they regularly attend summer school and show ‘adequate growth’ — a term that is not defined in the law. At least 19 of those require retention if a student doesn’t meet certain standards.

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Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Others have combined grade levels to best meet the needs of students. For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Personalized Learning Strategy Learning Education 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, this is expected and not problematic. Furthermore, these sorts of teachers serve as role models to students since they are examples of what self-regulation during challenging times can look like. Polan is a great example of teaching with equanimity. It eliminates clinging and aversion.”. 2 Create protocols.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

There’s great news out of the recent UNESCO meeting in Paris, where member states unanimously adopted the draft Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). For example, the government makes sustained investment in creating and maintaining roads, but it doesn’t do this work itself.

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OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

He decides whether to tackle a math lesson or a science one, for example, taking into account his own interests as well as his responsibilities. Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Michael likes being able to move at his own pace. “It

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Personalized Learning Advocacy Study Report 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

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. Her sisters “were an example and I wanted to be like them,” Alvarado said. There’s still work to be done.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. That’s why Edgecombe County Public Schools rolled out the model districtwide over the course of three years.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2019

First, since no company can attend every event, staff should meet to discuss event strategy every year ahead of trade show season. For these meetings, have essential information ready to share. For example, if you need to meet with tech directors and you’re getting classroom teachers, you need to rethink your strategy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Someone with the disability might omit short words such as “and” and “the” while reading aloud, for example, or read “dog” as “god”—even if they speak normally in conversation. but the gap between the two scores didn’t meet the cutoff of 15 points, so the girl was not given appropriate reading services in her school.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 19, 2017

The series went over several days and before courses began one day, I was reading the agenda and noticed a session entitled, “Joys of Journaling and Benefits of Blogging.” This is the name of a public blog I administrate and is something that I use for early childhood educator professionalism advocacy. Blogging helps us do that.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

He’d made honor roll before the pandemic hit, but ended the 2020-21 school year failing all four courses, Murphy said. Under a 2018 law in Missouri, for example, virtual schools are paid a prorated monthly cost based on students’ completion of assignments and assessments. This year, the Murphys have decided to homeschool Ernest Jr.;

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

More than two-thirds of four-year university and college admissions officers said in a survey by the National Association for College Admission Counseling that transfer students had become “significantly important” in meeting enrollment goals. ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 1, 2020

Let me give you an example. Of course, if it makes you feel any better, Timmy could have gotten a 100 on the first assessment and 20 on the last one and would have gotten the same grade overall. Of course, the above is farcical. Percentages aren't always impractical, of course. That's eight percent more effort." "Oh

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education reform is often framed as an issue for schools that are failing to meet expectations. Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others. emphasis added).

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

Carry out the action through letters, talks, meetings with officials, policy proposals, and activities, depending on the specific goals of the project. The teacher facilitates the work, of course, but leaves as much of the decision-making as possible to the students. In Step 2, students become well-informed on their chosen issue.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Classroom libraries provide books selected to meet reading levels, student interests, and topics studied at a specific grade level. Of course, when you come down to it, this is an equity issue. Are we doing enough to make our examples of effective practice truly visible to the public? Reflection. You have to see it to want it.

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Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

And while core course content is often housed on the district’s internal learning management system (LMS), the extracurricular content—advanced placement (AP), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), honors, homeschool, and blended learning content—must also be factored into the equation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

They talked about students who aim for a four-year finish but fail to take the right courses in the right order. Students who are worried about debt sometimes work more and then reduce their course load,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor of higher education at Seton Hall who studies student debt. THE 12-CREDIT FALLACY.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes.

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Study Data Report Elementary 132

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course. This year’s nearly 13,500 eighth graders will be the first students required to meet the changed requirements, which are being phased in gradually. Students must demonstrate mastery of pre-identified skills to pass a course.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

For example, my ELL student who lit the trash can on fire witnessed his father’s murder. Unfortunately, there are too few of these teachers to meet the demands of this growing population. Of course, ELL students are just as bright and capable as any other student. Raven had two part-time ESL instructors. Lessons Learned.

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System Learning Elementary Advocacy 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. It’s not that they have less potential than their counterparts in predominantly white, more affluent communities.

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Report Company Study Advocacy 83

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I recently attended one of the community meetings discussing whether or not a national open education policy is needed in the US. There were two other meetings I did not attend, so I can’t speak to them. There were several times during the meeting when attendees were asked to contribute their thoughts on a range of topics.

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