The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Instances of blatant racist and homophobic behavior are well documented. Gallup characterized the differences in perceptions between fraternity and sorority alumni and their unaffiliated peers as large and consistent with the positive findings of an earlier Gallup poll of college graduates in 2014, also funded by Greek advocacy groups.

Advocacy 115

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Eli Clark has been waiting nearly a year for their high school to complete an evaluation that would determine special education services. The family hoped Eli could get an Individualized Education Program (IEP), a legal document that qualifies students for special education and lays out the services and accommodations they will receive.

Education 130

Education Assessment Advocacy Report 130

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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Trends Education Robotics Blended Learning 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout. The resulting platform is a combination of their expertise and 13 years of our own data on how special education providers and students engage in therapy and evaluations.”. Empowering Clinicians.

Advocacy 78

Advocacy Assessment Company Accessibility 78

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

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Analysis Policies Advocacy Report 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. Mireya Barrera, left, spent years struggling to understand her son Ian’s teachers in special education meetings without a Spanish interpreter.

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Meeting Training Advocacy Accessibility 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

Advocacy 201

Advocacy Chromebook Exercises Groups 201

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the most commonly used rubrics, educators state each element of the project, report, or paper to be scored and then determine their expectations for the assignment and what each level of mastery looks like. . Also, for rubrics to serve as learning tools, educators must give them to students before handing out assignments.

Learning 182

Learning Advocacy Assessment Meeting 182

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. Department of Education.

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Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 197

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

Future Ready 207

Future Ready Maker Movement Libraries Advocacy 207

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Called SwiftStudent , the website walks students through the documents and forms they need in order to submit a financial aid appeal to their institution’s aid office. Department of Education. The foundation was established last summer by Seldin and her husband to support projects related to immigration reform and higher education.

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Tools Advocacy Study Company 155

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. The Education Department says that last year about 17.5 Erika Turner and her husband have 11 children between them.

Advocacy 91

Advocacy Meeting Data Trends 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty. Families cannot afford to wait. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

System 141

System Advocacy Accessibility Policies 141

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In this era of fake news, covfefe, and biased advocacy journalism outlets like Fox News and MSNBC, how can news consumers surf through this wave of information that bombards us daily? Freshmen frequently cite obscure websites as sources in their papers instead of government documents or respected news sources.

Training 74

Training Advocacy Policies Study 74

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Waldron is the only CEO in the United States’ K–12 education market space to be appointed to the five-person council, which will provide ongoing guidance to the ATP and its global membership. Waldron joined Curriculum Associates in 2008, bringing leadership experience from both the for-profit and nonprofit education worlds.

Kaplan 98

Kaplan Industry Assessment Advocacy 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. One of the documents — a complicated certificate evaluating a child’s dental health, vision, hearing and nutrition — is required by the state. But it was never found.

Policies 77

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 77

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. Students who lack citizenship documentation—sometimes called “ Dreamers ”—may be excluded from last-dollar programs, Marshall says. It’s understandable.

E-rate 136

E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 136

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

And the reason that it is so important to us, is because there is a lot of documentation that is not out there anywhere else. It’s a statistic that now we can put out there because we have documented evidence. It was never documented. Now we have documented evidence that that’s not exactly true.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast A recent edLeader Panel, “ Utah Spotlight: A ‘State’ of Alignment ,” featured experts that included Rick Gaisford, Education Specialist, Education Technology and the SETDA Chair Elect, Utah State Board of Education; Melanie Durfee, Ph.D.,

Technology 74

Technology Common Core EdTech Trends 74

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Nearly twice as many teachers (86 percent) now say technology is “very important” in education, up from 44 percent before the pandemic. Candidly, this was not something we expected to see,” said Elizabeth Laird, senior fellow on student privacy at the CDT, during an online event with education reporters.

Student Data Privacy 162

Student Data Privacy Data Survey Advocacy 162

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. There are “so many people that are stuck in poverty and stuck in situations where they can’t get an education,” Hall said. “I That’s because the U.S.

Groups 84

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 84

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Last year, one student started a crowd-sourced document called “ Being Not-Rich at UM ” full of advice about how to get by on a modest budget. Low-income students really feel out of place at Michigan,” says Camille Mancuso, a junior and the vice president of the Michigan Affordability and Advocacy Coalition student group.

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Laptops Analysis Advocacy Social Media 117

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

You’ll want to keep this important advocacy tool on hand and share copies with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, students. In addition, the document is filled with visuals and quotes to use in any local advocacy effort.

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Analysis Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Sign up for the higher education newsletter. Black students.

Advocacy 98

Advocacy Groups Report Policies 98

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Her child care facilities qualify for meal subsidies through the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which is administered by the West Virginia Department of Education. for breakfast, $3.12

Policies 141

Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

As the leaders of organizations that advocate on behalf of the disability and higher-education communities, we are committed to working together to continue the progress made in recent years to welcome and support college students with a wide range of disabilities. Ted Mitchell is president of the American Council on Education.

Learning 110

Learning Advocacy Report Secondary 110

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When she’d shown up at the financial aid office of a Houston Community College campus at age 19, she was told she couldn’t receive tuition money without documentation from her parents—the same parents from whom she’d been estranged for three years. The scales that measure higher education costs are usually set in thousand-dollar increments.

Advocacy 140

Advocacy Guidelines Accessibility Tools 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

Advocacy 86

Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 86

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). Fifth, in multiple places the Recommendation uses the language of “effective educational resources” that will “improve learner outcomes.”

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OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 119

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life.

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Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math. Nobody uses the proper term for it, it’s not diagnosed frequently,” said Sandra Elliott, a former special education teacher and current chief academic officer at TouchMath, a multisensory math program. 17 at 8 p.m.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 128

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

“I think there is optimism based on this worldwide movement and the fact that there’s worldwide attention on the way Black folks have been treated in this country for hundreds of years now,” said Alim, who is the Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group. The question I would ask is, ‘What is being done?’

Social Media 144

Social Media Advocacy Report Groups 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Department of Education warned 11 states that their opt-out rates exceeded five percent. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.

Common Core 107

Common Core Advocacy Policies Survey 107

Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Mike doesn’t have a typical education career. In reflecting back on the past few years with the changes education has seen due to the pandemic, Mike asks the question, “what tools have stuck?” The book itself is meant to be a resource and tool for educators. Every teacher should fight exclusion! Everyone’s Different.

Assistive Technology 96

Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

Dropout 78

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 78

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? The document notes gaps in privacy laws surrounding the use of one-to-one notebooks, which allows school officials to access computers without notice or consent from students or parents.

Social Media 114

Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 114

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. HB 6 is the companion bill to SB 6 which I testified on before the Senate Education Committee last week. Attached is a document that highlights the benefits of HB 6. It is reposted here with permission.

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Instructional Materials Advocacy Exercises Technology 61