The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We The report notes that teachers from well-resourced schools typically have more time and training to design lessons that involve creative, non-formulaic uses of ed tech. In addition, the report covers AI and data privacy.

Digital Divide 88

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 88

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year.

Resources 174

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

Eighth graders who take the course can more easily reach calculus by 12th grade — which can set students up for challenging math classes in college and career paths in science and engineering fields. Most commonly, students were put into separate math classes on honors or career prep tracks, the report found. What’s happening there?”

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Survey Elementary Policies Report 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

So many of us find our spark in STEM during programs that happen outside of school, whether it’s an after-school robotics program or a summer course with Girls Who Code. Advocacy efforts need to include and be led by youth, but that means we need support from the adults who are leading these conversations. Our voice is a superpower.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S.

Accessibility 160

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. How would you respond to that?

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Khan Academy Adobe Advocacy Assessment 185

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ron DeSantis challenged the College Board’s AP African American Studies course, he inspired others to follow suit with flagrant concessions to institutional racism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Teaching is inherently activist. When Florida Gov.

Education 103

Education Policies Advocacy Outcomes 103

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. PIRG report, however, says the actual contracts tell a different story.

Pearson 137

Pearson Accessibility Course Report 137

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.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy Groups Report Data 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

percent for students who started in fall 2014, according to a 2020 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. The national six-year college completion rate was 60.1

Advocacy 178

Advocacy Policies Course Accessibility 178

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The highest rates of non-submission were among American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian students (as well as students who did not report their race or ethnicity on Common App), and the lowest rates were among white and Asian students. Of course, there are other ways to apply to college beyond the Common App.

Survey 195

Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 195

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. The post Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. As a new report about our victory shows, our success can be attributed to something even more basic and essential that so many people miss. Of course, our work is not done yet. We did get the balance right.

Policies 174

Policies Advocacy Strategy Groups 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Teachers report that they like the convenience of being able to complete their learning at a time and place that is convenient for them. One of every five requests in the U.S.

Professional Learning 188

Professional Learning Elementary Meeting Survey 188

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

Credit: The Hechinger Report Lori Carrell, chancellor of the University of Minnesota Rochester, with the Mayo Clinic visible outside her window. Related: As students fill summer courses, many ask: Why aren’t all colleges open in the summers? Credit: The Hechinger Report The models vary. Department of Education reports.

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Survey Course Report Advocacy 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

At the camp in Benton, Illinois, students will learn about the plan and how to advocate for it, along with participating in typical camp activities like swimming and using the ropes course. Signing up for her school’s environmental justice club and being connected to Sunrise, she said, “made me feel less alone.”

How To 73

How To Advocacy Learning Policies 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

” Credit: Noah Willman for the Hechinger Report The rules that govern these barriers to entry are patchwork, scattered across federal, state and regulatory codes, and they can vary from field to field within a state. Credit: Noah Willman for the Hechinger Report Wiese, now 45, went to prison for armed robbery of a bank.

Advocacy 98

Advocacy Training Policies Study 98

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Without conceptualizing an explanatory mechanism—a reason to believe a difference might exist—they simply compare the outcomes of students whose required course materials are openly licensed with those whose materials are traditionally copyrighted.

OER 147

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 147

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, in many schools across the country, English learners have regularly been pulled out of mainstream academic courses in order to receive segregated, English-only language instruction away from their English-dominant peers. Not only do U.S. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Education 130

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 130

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. The Hechinger Report is based at Columbia University’s Teachers College.).

Learning 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

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.

Advocacy 169

Advocacy Survey Study System 169

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

New report explores main blended models and their use. A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. ” The teacher, or the clock, determines when students move from one activity or modality to the next.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Report Case Study Advocacy 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

As temperatures began to dip this fall, Allen Blackwell III says he and his colleagues at Baltimore City Public Schools kept watch on weather reports hoping to see it hit 32 degrees. The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I It’s school.”

Report 180

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

. — A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Kaplan Training Report Survey 123

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report Osseo Senior High School, in Osseo, Minn. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. The ECMC Foundation, an affiliate of the ECMC Group, is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.). Related: Proof Points — Many young adults choose work over college, report shows.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 10, 2020

Affordability seems to have become the end goal of OER advocacy, instead of being an important step on the path to improving student learning. The last decade of research on OER, cost savings, and student learning has clearly established two findings: Using OER does consistently and reliably lower the cost of course materials.

OER 78

OER Advocacy Course Report 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. But students who are in third grade now were most affected.

Elementary 103

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

Viewing one meme or listening to one streamer isn’t enough to redirect an individual’s entire political and moral compass, of course. My English courses have provided lessons about citing reputable sources, though this was specifically done to fulfill curriculum requirements and only covered academic sources for essays.

Social Media 98

Social Media Advocacy Report Course 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2023

They also lack the self-advocacy skills necessary to navigate their new environments. This story about the potential end of affirmative action was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Accessibility 100

Accessibility Advocacy Study System 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Credit: Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report. Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

Report 144

Report Course Advocacy Policies 144

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. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

Accessibility 334

Accessibility Technology E-rate Data 334

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.

Groups 98

Groups Advocacy Report Study 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. .

Advocacy 92

Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Danilo Moreta, a graduate student raised in Colombia, leads a Spanish language section of a plant science course, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report. Wesleyan professor Stephen Angle leads a Mandarin language section of a course he teaches on Chinese philosophy. ITHACA, N.Y.

Course 88

Course Study Report Policies 88

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. Credit: Emma Harris for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Emma Harris for The Hechinger Report.

Company 144

Company Assessment Report Gamification 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 121