Edsurge

JULY 13, 2021

In February, Philadelphia-based early childhood educator Adrienne Briggs found herself in a quandary. She attended a webinar, but the presenter didn’t provide documentation for attendees to reference. She attended a webinar, but the presenter didn’t provide documentation for attendees to reference.

Education 172

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. Monarch School argues that it provides a quality education.

Advocacy 173

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

2] Children who experience toxic stress, for example, are more likely to develop the following mental and physical illnesses later on:[3]. 4] For example, children with toxic stress are more likely to fit the parameters for chronic absenteeism , or excessive school absences.[6] Voices in Urban Education, 2016, 43, pp.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That is to say, people who are part of certain racial groups — likely a reference to the outsized impact climate change has on Black and Hispanic people — and low-income people. It makes you feel super helpless, especially when you start acknowledging who gets affected.” Do what you can with what you can.” Photo courtesy of Perkins&Will.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As trauma-informed education expert Alex Shevrin Venet points out in her recent book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education : This is the uncomfortable truth: schools cause trauma and harm. These students carried those outside stressors into the classroom when in-person schooling resumed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida. Afterward, I was asked by a student: “So, like, should I refer to you as a homeless person or someone who experienced homelessness?” FGLI students are not a one-and-done diversity checkbox.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

CUNY students were among the millions across the country hit hard by the pandemic and left struggling to finance their education. He’s spent months reporting on what critics refer to as the “ transcript trap ,” when colleges and universities refuse to release transcripts for students who owe them money. That’s why we’re there.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

For the first decade of the modern open education movement (1998 – 2007), the distinguishing feature of our work – the thing we cared most about and talked most about – was the open licensing we applied to educational materials. ” There were two kinds of educational materials in the world.

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

Even if they are correct about the current state of affairs – and they just might be – it doesn’t abdicate our responsibility to help schools and educators do better. Instead, advocates have focused almost exclusively on the practices of companies serving education. and compliance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

Sent from one office to another, he was close to giving up — until he found himself referred to someone whose title was “retention specialist.”. “I They were just leaving higher education with debt and nothing to show for it.”. Problems with low success rates are widespread in American higher education. Dickinson stayed.

Dropout 114

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N2Y

APRIL 4, 2021

Our identity as educators is the intersection of the education, philosophies, and experiences that have informed our practice. Who we are as educators is shaped by our identity as individuals—the intersection of class, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, race, and religion. What is the hidden curriculum?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. Someone with the disability might omit short words such as “and” and “the” while reading aloud, for example, or read “dog” as “god”—even if they speak normally in conversation. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. “He

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. In New Brunswick, the province upped early childhood educator wages. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2017

public education these days is personalized learning. Depending on whom you ask, the term refers to a model, a strategy, a plan, or just plain old good instruction. For anyone seeking to label an ideal education experience or garner support for a new initiative, personalized learning provides the answer.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Should that apply to higher education? It’s a direct reference to the case many students and families have made, since the pandemic prompted campuses to close in the spring, that colleges should return money paid for room and board services that went unused. This is a consumer-protection agenda. That principle is absolutely correct.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

AJ spent the next eight months out of school with limited virtual instruction, while his mother argued with the district that his rights as a student in special education were being violated in the name of school safety. “My Credit: Source- Colorado Department of Education. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education.

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Assessment Report Training Guidelines 100

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

I went into education for two reasons. And the second reason is that I could ensure that no child would ever experience the educational journey and experience that I did. Can you give me an example of where you tried to be that teacher that you never had, and it did make a difference? Tom Loud on episode 509.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I went into education for two reasons. And the second reason is that I could ensure that no child would ever experience the educational journey and experience that I did. Can you give me an example of where you tried to be that teacher that you never had, and it did make a difference? 140 Twitter Tips for Educators.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 9, 2022

Uplifting moments remind us why we chose to become educators while challenging ones may cause us to forget. As an instructional coach and a life coach, I hear many educators wondering the same things I did: “How can I not take student misbehavior personally?”. Systems: The movement towards educational equity is a long game.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 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. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. for former general education students.

Outcomes 91

Outcomes Education Report Survey 91

Buncee

JANUARY 11, 2019

The Buncee Bus is on the way to the 39th Annual Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando, Florida. Or, click and save the schedule below to your phone for a quick reference! Buncee is such a versatile tool that makes it easy for educators to address the ISTE standards and promote student choice. Bonus: It's FUN too!

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Advocacy Future Ready Libraries Blended Learning 43

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 15, 2018

Although Personalized Learning has gained considerable traction in education, there is still much confusion and, at times, heated debate regarding what this set of ideas actually means and looks like in practice. Learn more about what Tom is doing with teachers by following him on Twitter: @Mr_Driscoll.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? I admire her so much so we are doing a multi part series with her. There were several of us.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 12, 2020

For parents of students with disabilities, these shed light on the effectiveness of the services and accommodations outlined in their child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP). Check your state’s education website or Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) for more information. Your child’s IEP was updated six months ago.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

Boston College is offering something similar, called True North — a reference to the geographic North Pole, rather than the magnetic pole of a compass — during orientation this summer, for the first time, to new students and their parents. “We Department of Education says , and one in 10 switch majors two or more times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. I can’t even remember how long it’s been since you and I met, but just how much you shaped me and understanding that we can have educational excellence and less testing. You don’t have to choose!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Enrollment at California Community Colleges has plummeted nearly 20% during the pandemic to about 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

Future Ready 110

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Much like the Internets in general, (or the Googles, or the Facebooks, or the Twitters, or the YouTubes) many educators look upon Wikipedia with suspicion, sometimes derision, and occasionally with fear. IE: the hard copy books of the reference section of our library) I do! No examples of real world use. But who are we kidding?

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Facebook Study Libraries 71

MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In one recent study by the Stanford History Education Group, 170 high school students were shown a photo of flowers growing fused together and asked if that provided strong evidence on the conditions outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. “The The study was financed by an environmental advocacy group, not an unbiased source.

Digital Citizenship 75

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

In a Seesaw Blog Ideas post , Alison Murphy shares several examples for using these games right out of the box or follow instructions to personaliz[ing] your own plan: Seesaw Go! I will be holding a luncheon early in the year to educate them about what the librarian can do for them. plan for teachers. game board to print.

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