The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. Are We Ready?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

CCISD recognized that digital equity is more than devices for all; it also requires that students experience success and that teachers and leaders effectively, appropriately, and equitably use technology to provide quality learning. CCISD serves as a model for other nationwide communities seeking to narrow the digital divide.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. To meet this challenge, in the summer of 2020, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC).

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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. He discussed the digital divide with them.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. Chavous is a founding board member of the American Federation for Children , the school choice advocacy group formerly chaired by Betsy DeVos.” ” Contests and Awards.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. The post A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students. It just goes to show that this is in fact a nonpartisan issue,” McNeill said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I I know how hard we worked at Rainier Beach to get what little money we could, so if we had to give half of that to another school, I’d be upset too,” Green said. The real issue is Washington state just needs to fully fund education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

But now, as educators everywhere try to figure out how to do their jobs remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the instability of relying on one counselor, or just a few, to guide hundreds of students through new academic hurdles, prepare them for an uncertain future and triage their mental health crises.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. .

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