The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

As soon as I saw the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Preliminary Guidance for Phased Reopening of Pre-K to 12 Schools document, I thought this is exactly what I am doing. Kim shared that she and her colleagues often describe advocacy in the context of the neverending burden of Sysyphus. Lady Gaga is always right.

Libraries 118

Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Groups such as the Consortium of School Networking, or CoSN, a K-12 tech education advocacy group, have long been calling on the FCC to update the E-Rate program to include more cybersecurity protections, said CoSN’s CEO Keith Krueger. “We’ve We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

E-rate 114

E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 114

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Examining Mobile Apps for Library Functions - Emily Krug, Emerging Technologies and Cataloging Librarian 10:00am KEYNOTE - NEIL PAKENHAM-WALSH: Healthcare Information For All (www.hifa2015.org org ) 11:00am Become a library advocate with NPSIG!

Libraries 51

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Like the DBQs, lessons revolve around a central historical question and sets of prima ry documents to engage learners with varied reading skills. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum also engages students in historical inquiry around both U.S. and world history events.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In a March 16 memo, the principal of Kaibeto Boarding School in Arizona, a bureau-operated school, asked staff to report to work from March 23 to April 3 while the school was closed, according to a document reviewed by HuffPost. The agreement “encouraged” the BIE to get the funding to schools by mid-September. “It

Report 126

Report Elementary Online Learning System 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Rhode Island’s experiment with personalized learning reveals a still more complicated picture: of overworked, undervalued public school teachers who embrace reforms in order to get what they need. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 99

MindShift

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Childcare, work, documentation status, and the many “hoops” students have to jump through to get a college degree are often some of the biggest barriers. They document work experiences related to school, post writings and the readings, and upload everything to an online platform. And that’s how regular college felt to me.”

Course 28

Course Competency Based Learning Meeting Advocacy 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here, some of the nation’s poorest and blackest school districts struggle to recruit qualified and experienced teachers, expand access to learning experiences that can give students more opportunities to succeed in college, and raise the money needed to fix or replace run-down buildings. The town square anchors downtown Lexington.

Outcomes 140

Outcomes Elementary Report Resources 140

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

House of Representatives passed the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would guarantee parents access to more information online, including curriculum, budgets, reading lists and library books, while requiring them to be notified of student requests to change their gender-identifying pronouns.

Education 125

Education Libraries Report Advocacy 125