eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Presence is offering a free version of the platform for clinicians interested in exploring how they can incorporate technology into their therapy planning, documentation, and delivery. It also allows them to conduct up to eight 30-minute teletherapy sessions a month.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. Her requests for translated copies of legal documents largely went unanswered, she said — until a principal told her that the translation was too expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America, said she’s worried that the “domino effect” started by the delayed FAFSA is going to eventually affect college completion rates. The post ‘Simpler’ FAFSA complicates college plans for students, families appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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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. . When students work with a rubric, they have a document that’s almost a GPS for the assignment, says West-Smith.

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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.

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2021

She attended a webinar, but the presenter didn’t provide documentation for attendees to reference. Over the last 10 months, as part of EdSurge’s research and reporting project to document the impact of COVID-19 on the early childhood workforce, we’ve heard from many early childhood educators and providers like Briggs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. 17 at 8 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m.

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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. Even more, the report noted that schools “are not required to inform students about the dependent care allowance.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. Nearly twice as many teachers (86 percent) now say technology is “very important” in education, up from 44 percent before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

This document spells out what services and accommodations students with disabilities must get from their school districts. Sometimes, as with the McBrides, parents are simply told by a school official that their child will be on a new schedule, but the change is never documented anywhere. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall.

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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. The post Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

Before Savannah took the SAT, she faced the extra step of documenting her disability to secure extra time. For instance, at Smith College , a selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, the percentage of students reporting a disability rose from 9 percent in the fall of 2008 to 24 percent in the fall of 2017.

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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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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. Native advocates said some students don’t have this kind of documentation even when they are enrolled in a recognized tribe. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. 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. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. Meanwhile, other people hear the word “free” and immediately distrust it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

She reported it through official channels, she said, but never got so much as an apology — and the white student continued to say the word. When a student announced during a physics lab that the reason there weren’t more Black physicists was that Black people had naturally lower IQs, Dodor reported it. I changed majors.”. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based learning. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gaisford spoke about the State Educational Technology Directors Association and the EdTech Trends Report , which was created to track the impact of technology on education across the country. The Utah legislature asked the creators of the program to put together a master plan, which became the guiding document for the program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. These attitudes are also reflected in public opinion polls that document growing skepticism about the importance and usefulness of standardized tests. Why do families choose to opt out? The answer isn’t simple.

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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. That’s important to Mills, who remembers having to report her GPA on scholarship applications.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Earlier this month, ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter released a scathing report, “ High School Non-Confidential Report: How School-Loaned Computers May Be Peering Into Your Home ,” that blasted the lack of safeguards to protect students’ privacy. The concerns raised in the report are not hypothetical nor without merit.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

I’m Jon Marcus with The Hechinger Report … Kirk: And I’m Kirk Carapezza with GBH. I remember when Mount Ida College shut down here in Newton, people started calling me because they heard me on the radio reporting this, and they said, ‘I’m thinking about sending my kid to this school. Jon: This is College Uncovered.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

In Portland, students even created an Instagram account dedicated to documenting their own stories around the issue. This story about School Resource Officers was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The account is nearly two years old.

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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. The document simply says, “No grade.”.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. I watched training videos, sampled lesson clips, and read every document sent to me by 51Talk trainers. Being able to provide this experience to learners because of today’s technology is incredibly rewarding as a teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. trillion worth of outstanding national student loan debt , the College Board reports; each owes three times more , on average, than an undergraduate, according to the Urban Institute. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Students need to have an option to reply where they can briefly indicate why they were absent and, if they are in crisis, be automatically redirected to on-campus (ex: counselling center) and neighborhood assistance (immigration advocacy). A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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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. Reflection. You have to see it to want it.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many parents look forward to the first progress reports that arrive as fall ushers in the hustle and bustle of a new school year. Comments on IEP progress reports usually include language such as Mastered, Making Progress, Some Progress, Not Addressed, or Needs Improvement to describe advancement toward accomplishing IEP goals.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. Attached is a document that highlights the benefits of HB 6. members/ You could also follow up with a quick email urging them to support the bill and email the attached document. It is reposted here with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

And a committee of the principal national faculty union is at work on a position paper documenting problems with some dual-enrollment programs. “I Photo: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report. The document is no longer on the university’s website, but is available from a web archive.).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. To encourage writing, students must keep an engineering journal where they document their ideas and keep track of their progress. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. PLEASANT, S.C. In 2020, the C.E.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations like the Clayton Christensen Institute, RAND Corporation, and the Brookings Institution often publish reports and research on educational trends, providing data-driven perspectives. This approach encourages self-reflection, self-advocacy, and a sense of ownership over one’s education.

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