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

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. If her daughter, for example, a Eugene middle schooler, maintains a 3.0 That’s because the U.S.

Groups 86

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 86

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.

Education 0

Education Report System Course 0

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rural school districts face many unique trials, and access to educational technology is no different. First, the presenters agreed that while there are multiple potential uses for school technology, their main goal is to provide students with a competitive education. in elementary education from the University of Virginia.

Broadband 54

Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

Edmentum 115

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 115

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Like a handful of states, New Hampshire is taking the opportunity provided by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to revise its accountability measures to further individualize education. Claire Voorhees, national policy director, Foundation for Excellence in Education. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

Personalized Learning 71

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

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.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Higher Education.

Report 86

Report Company Study Advocacy 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The principal authors, Vicki Park and Amanda Datnow, make a not-so-provocative claim that may still cause consternation in education: Rather than data driving the decision-making, student learning goals should drive what data are collected and how they are used. Data-driven decision making is hard enough for professional educators.

Data 33

Data Secondary Analysis Assessment 33

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi.

Elementary 55

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. Educational consultant and former state board member Leslie Jacobs on why charters may have had difficulty reaching projected goals.

Elementary 68

Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 68

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The project lives on with a new group of students each year, buoyed by a strain of progressive education philosophy that says students learn best with real work that resembles what they will likely encounter outside of school. It has been kicking around K-12 education for decades but has yet to be widely adopted. But does it work?

How To 34

How To Learning Advocacy Study 34

MindShift

MARCH 29, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter. Only later did he become an educator. NEWARK, Calif. — “Where do you want to go to college?” He’s right.

Company 31

Company Report Study Advocacy 31

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

. — When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates.

Training 40

Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

There were no Advanced Placement courses, for example, and little help was available with college and financial aid applications, said Ben, who is Black. “I Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, University of California, Los Angeles “The equalizer to close these gaps was supposed to be education. The answer?

Report 145

Report Study Accessibility Data 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This flaw in higher education is not obscure; it is codified into federal law. However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive.

Policies 71

Policies Accessibility Advocacy Report 71

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

While the federal Department of Education considers kids homeless if they are living in motels or doubled up with family members and friends, HUD, which controls the purse strings for federal housing aid, requires that recipients live in shelters or on the street. Public schools identified 1.1 They can get to them.

Elementary 126

Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 126

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While everyone wants educational materials to be less expensive, lower costs are the least interesting thing about digital, networked learning. When our presentations and our writing and our speaking and our advocacy focus primarily on ways that OER alleviate the cost problem, we’re actually doing exactly what publishers want.

OER 158

OER Accessibility Pearson MOOC 158

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. But from time to time I still step back and worry about field-level issues.

OER 73

OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Her blog post shares: In 2019, SLSA approved re-imagining the ESIFC to adapt to the changing information, education, and technology environments, as well as the increasing diversity in our student populations. REACTS Taxonomy Example of ideas from Synthesizing–Level 6. The heart of the ESIFC is our students.

Digital Citizenship 76

Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

My long term goals in advocating for OER are to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners and (2) radically improve access to education worldwide. This is why, a few posts ago, I stated that “the question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?”

OER 60

OER Advocacy Accessibility Smartphone 60

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

At Maury County Public Schools (TN), for example, families can check out WiFi-enabled devices for two weeks at a time. A final challenge—again, whether or not during a crisis—is compassion for the families and students while still ensuring an effective education. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016.

BYOD 54

BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Most educators look at the cost of their device and software, but what they need to understand is that the total cost includes PD, tech support, sustainability. For example, while Linson’s district avoided grants for most of their initiative, they knew that many teachers would need assistance using the new digital tools.

EdTech 51

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 51

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” In my post I wrote, My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. Stephen’s goal is access for all.

OER 60

OER LMS Secondary Course 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

But some higher education experts say the proposal misses the point. Students like Moises and Lina, for example, wouldn’t be eligible under the Cuomo proposal. She hosts a radio show and art salons in her South Bronx living room, partly as a way to earn money to cover costs for her education and her family. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Libraries 87

Libraries Laptops Training Report 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

Like him, some will never get much further in their educations. But a growing number do, thanks to not only Richards and his faculty but also to an impressive and expensive amount of work by local universities that is helping to increase the ranks of low-income students heading on to higher education. Even the highest-income U.S.

Groups 40

Groups Secondary Study Report 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

STEM 47

STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

And she doesn't like it when the media “use my name as clickbait or try to make it all about me”—education, she says, is about students and families. That’s how the Education Secretary opened a recent talk to a room full of education journalists at the Education Writers Association annual convention in Baltimore.

Guidelines 64

Guidelines Advocacy Secondary Policies 64

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

During the past 50 years, no segment of elementary education has prospered against the odds more than homeschooling. The movement has grown despite a lack of the resources available to public schools, without the air of exclusivity of private schools, and absent the brand of the college prep education of parochial schools.

Advocacy 81

Advocacy Elementary Assessment Secondary 81

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Some digital resources for school libraries are a virtual reality field trip.

Libraries 98

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That would help return the United States to first in the world in the proportion of its population with the credentials needed to sustain an economy increasingly dependent on highly educated workers. At this rate, the target won’t be met until at least 2041 , the research arm of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, or ETS, predicts.

Policies 110

Policies Report Advocacy Meeting 110

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

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. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2017

I mean, it’s on the cover of The Chronicle of Higher Education. 40% of those in higher education attend community colleges. Protests at Evergreen College in Washington , for example. It must be true. If it sounds like a caricature… well, it is. Again and again and again. Protests at Reed College in Oregon.

Technology 58

Technology Education Social Media Groups 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” “Lower ed” is far more pervasive.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59