The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Locating Government Resources During Crisis” - Jennifer Castle, Reference and Government Documents Librarian, Tennessee State University and Arkansas State University | Dominique Hallett (full description) “Launching a Digital Navigators Program at the Library” - Audrey Barbakoff, Ed.D., Disaster Strikes!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Her current research involves the deployment and study of emerging information technologies supportive of digital inclusion and resiliency. She attended the local elementary and high school and now serves as a school board member. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

A narrow room crammed with high-tech equipment including 3D printers and an electrophoresis chamber to separate molecules and study chromosomes, the Fab Lab gives students at Laing a chance to get hands-on experience with the sorts of tools they might find in the workplace. “I In 2020, the C.E.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The spread of information and advocacy is increasing awareness around dyslexia, and many who have experienced reading struggles are beginning to find their way through school—and life beyond it—more easily. In elementary school, “I didn’t understand what was going on,” she says. “I VOICES OF DYSLEXIA: FOUR DIFFERENT PATHS TO SUCCESS.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

She is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. Department of State and studied religion and culture in Indonesia. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Some of this is what was revealed this year in the release of the Paradise Papers – a trove of documents that show how wealthy individuals (and wealthy corporations and wealthy universities ) keep their money in shell companies and offshore accounts, so as to avoid taxes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Because most bonds are so large, districts face big financial consequences if they don’t get the best deal possible, said Mark Robbins, a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut who has studied municipal bonds. percent of their bond principal in fees, significantly greater than the 1 percent average costs the study found.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2018

In addition, besides the informational infographic they can create, they can also make an advocacy infographic for promoting this career. ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES The Occupational Outlook Handbook is most likely written at a too high a reading and interest level for most elementary students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Gist, who runs the Migration Heritage Foundation, which documents the county’s history and provides aid to students, said the number of teenagers in the county applying for a fellowship to help cover textbook costs went from 16 last year to three this spring. Gist knows the disconnection comes at grave cost for students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit. Some families have sued.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Newsletters Why : Advocacy, community connections, sharing resources, showcasing student work How : Wakelet , Padlet , Smore , Google Slides, PPT “A newsletter is a wonderful way of advocating [for your library], Holzweiss said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. We can’t help what they choose,’” said Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University who has spent almost two decades studying charter schools.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” The Salt Lake City school board has voted to rename Jackson Elementary. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Educause has submitted a $55,000 offer to acquire the assets of the now defunct New Media Consortium , court documents reveal.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Rand recognized the classroom sets of literature books she studied from as a senior. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school. Constructed in 1908, Durant Elementary in Durant, Miss. Now they have pages missing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He said he usually doesn’t handle that many evaluations over the course of an entire school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

A child’s experiences not only determine what information enters her brain, but also influence how her brain processes information,” explains a succinct and well-documented summary of the first three years of brain development posted by the Tennessee-based Urban Child Institute. And it works. million of them do.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. I touched on this topic briefly in a previous article on online education.).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Related: Pop quiz: What state just banned a high school advanced placement American studies course? Meanwhile, Democrats have proposed their own version of a parent rights bill, backed by dozens of advocacy groups like the NAACP, the National Parents Union and the National Parent Teacher Association.

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