The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. Nationwide, the percentage of Hispanic or Latino adults ages 25 or over with a diploma has risen from 53 percent in 1995 to 72 percent last year, says the advocacy and research group Excelencia in Education.

Groups 82

Groups Advocacy Report Trends 82

N2Y

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Did you know that students with disabilities are allowed to attend their own IEP meetings ? Most special education teachers, leaders, and advocates highly encourage students to participate in and eventually lead their IEP meetings.

Meeting 52

Meeting Advocacy Elementary Conference 52

CUE

MAY 21, 2017

The focus of the advocacy efforts was on support for E-rate, LifeLine Program, Student Data and Privacy, and fully funding Title IV of ESSA. CUE members Pam Hernandez (SLOCUE) and Micah Studer (CapCUE) joined CEO Mike Lawrence and Legislative Policy Consultant John Cradler as part of the Ed Tech Advocacy and Policy Summit hosted by ISTE, CoSN and SETDA with support from SIIA, the Center for Digital Education and Discovery Education. Advocacy advocacy ESSA FCC Title IV

Broadband 95

Broadband Advocacy E-rate Digital Divide 95

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2020

Fortunately, TGR Foundation and Discovery Education are partnering to help STEM teachers reach a more diverse group of learners and generate student interest in STEM. They encourage self-advocacy skills and foster a growth mindset through t heir award-winning STEM curricula, college-access programs , along with a digital platform for educator professional learning.

STEM 203

STEM Strategy How To Advocacy 203

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 17, 2019

At the time the flipped approach was all the rage and best suited for the resources we had and the age group of our kids. The goal was to make the learning experience more personal for our students while better meeting their individual needs in the process. Herein lies the impetus of the work at Wells Elementary schoo l the past two years. Path Pace Place Choice Voice Advocacy Models There are many mainstream models out there that can be used to blend effectively.

Blended Learning 318

Blended Learning Learning Flipped Classroom Advocacy 318

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In school-provided gloves and masks, they try to meet students and parents outside on front porches or at a neighborhood park to follow social distancing rules. Santiago-Diaz said sometimes they’ll send a private link via Google Meet to students who seem to be having trouble.

Broadband 89

Broadband Advocacy Chromebook Meeting 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

With limited education opportunities available inside the camp for the 13-18 age group, Hello Future saw a gap that could be bridged through media and digital literacy, the ability to find, create and share content online.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Smartphone Laptops Report 100

CUE

MAY 21, 2017

The focus of the advocacy efforts was on support for E-rate, LifeLine Program, Student Data and Privacy, and fully funding Title IV of ESSA. CUE members Pam Hernandez (SLOCUE) and Micah Studer (CapCUE) joined CEO Mike Lawrence and Legislative Policy Consultant John Cradler as part of the Ed Tech Advocacy and Policy Summit hosted by ISTE, CoSN and SETDA with support from SIIA, the Center for Digital Education and Discovery Education. Advocacy advocacy ESSA FCC Title IV

Broadband 60

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Advocacy 60

CUE

OCTOBER 9, 2016

CUE Advocacy Update. Defining computer science education principles to meet needs of K-12 students. The bill supports President Obama’s Computer Science for All initiative, which provides Federal funding for the next three years for states to increase access to computer science education in elementary and secondary education classrooms. Increase the availability of rigorous computer science for all students, especially those who are members of underrepresented groups.

Common Core 116

Common Core Secondary Broadband Advocacy 116

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. You talk to anybody at a school or staff about the need, and whether they have what they need to meet the needs of these kids.

Advocacy 114

Advocacy Education Policies Survey 114

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test.

Data 110

Data Analysis Advocacy Trends 110

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But this summer, after five years of testifying at nearly every Madison school board meeting about the importance of removing police from schools, Adams found herself crying for a different reason.

Analysis 102

Analysis Report Advocacy Data 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona probably first caught the collective eye of the state’s education and political leaders in 2010 when he was appointed co-chairman of a legislative task force studying the state’s intractable academic achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups. FROM OUR PARTNER.

Education 93

Education Advocacy Common Core Secondary 93

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? Teachers throughout Arizona, including this group in Phoenix, staged a walkout strike in 2018 in support of better wages and state funding for schools.

Laptops 80

Laptops Advocacy System Policies 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. OAKLAND, Calif.

Kaplan 107

Kaplan Policies Report Advocacy 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In The district has tried to complete portions of IEP evaluations remotely when possible and resumed face-to-face evaluation meetings in late August, she added.

Education 91

Education Assessment Advocacy Report 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

With almost 1,200 — or one in five — of the county’s residents out of work, the demand for food assistance has escalated in a community where thousands of families already struggled to make ends meet before the virus came here.

Advocacy 81

Advocacy Laptops Tablets Analysis 81

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Nine other elementary schools in our district also read the book. My students connected with Angie Pendley’s students at Gaines Elementary. The family book club read at home on their own and we held one face-to-face meeting at the end of the book. We had about 21 families reading the book, so I hoped to have a large group discussion. However, due to many schedule conflicts, we had a very small group.

Elementary 43

Elementary Groups Advocacy Meeting 43

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2020

Justin Lofton, director of Youth Engagement and Advocacy for the group, said a large percentage of applicants said their parents hadn’t yet received unemployment benefits after losing their jobs as a result of coronavirus closures, increasing the financial strain on their families. The 17-year-old lives with a guardian and considered taking on a part-time job to help make ends meet.

Advocacy 51

Advocacy Trends Groups Report 51

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Advocacy 95

Advocacy Guidelines Exercises Policies 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

I’m usually 10 minutes late to Zoom meetings on my own. No way I can guarantee I can have both my kids on a different schedule of Zoom meetings on time.”. The Austin Facebook group that Mancha-Sumners co-created is full of parents for whom the cost of a learning pod is out of reach.

Advocacy 110

Advocacy Facebook Groups Meeting 110

MindShift

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Even before COVID-19 , recent studies found that 93% of elementary school teachers and 94% of middle school teachers experience high stress. The support group met twice weekly in the spring. That’s a familiar story for Ruqayyah Adisa, a member of the Teach Plus group with Zayas.

Advocacy 56

Advocacy Groups Exercises Meeting 56

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And we thought by enabling individual members to reach out with their challenges, we’ll have enough of us involved that someone on our team is likely to have experience in meeting a specific challenges.

Advocacy 75

Advocacy Libraries Broadband System 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2020

When I was in fourth grade at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, my teacher held a career day, where my classmates and I were to come dressed for the jobs we hoped one day to hold. He is in the process of organizing an education advocacy group called P.O.W.E.R.

Advocacy 106

Advocacy Elementary System Report 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. One of Edgecombe’s elementary schools created three teacher-leader positions to focus on improving literacy among students in third grade and younger. That means approximately 1,600 teachers and 50,000 students are teaching and learning under this model, the group says.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy Elementary Trends STEM 87

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. In June, the group mobilized. The National COVID-19 Outdoor Learning Initiative's 10 working groups.

Learning 171

Learning Analysis Broadband Advocacy 171

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2017, the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

BYOD 72

BYOD Advocacy Smartphone Tablets 72

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 22, 2017 State board won’t check if all ECOT claims are accurate | The Columbus Dispatch → After overpaying ECOT more than $60 million in a single school year because the school submitted attendance claims it couldn’t prove, the state Department of Education now will trust the besieged e-school and its sponsor that it meets criteria to now become a drop-out recovery school. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech 150

EdTech Broadband Industry Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

" Tagged on: September 22, 2017 State board won’t check if all ECOT claims are accurate | The Columbus Dispatch → After overpaying ECOT more than $60 million in a single school year because the school submitted attendance claims it couldn’t prove, the state Department of Education now will trust the besieged e-school and its sponsor that it meets criteria to now become a drop-out recovery school. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech 150

EdTech Broadband Industry Laptops 150

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high. In Massachusetts, she said, more than half of the households watching the WORLD channel during the first week of educational programming were those with incomes of less than $25,000 a year, a group far less likely to have reliable internet access.

Accessibility 87

Accessibility Broadband Advocacy How To 87

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Pam Moran on episode 231 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

Policies 229

Policies Chromebook Advocacy Study 229

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. We see kids whose challenges don’t show up on their report card, so they aren’t getting services,” said Jennifer Choi, a parent and founder of the advocacy group 2eNYC and a trustee of the nonprofit Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy.

Advocacy 44

Advocacy Elementary Training Survey 44

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Members of the NAACP and an advocacy organization called Oakland REACH , started by Oakland parents whose kids attend the district’s lowest performing schools, have coalesced around a campaign for better reading instruction they’re calling Literacy for All. Continuing Advocacy.

Advocacy 58

Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 58

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? By Robert Low.

Guidelines 55

Guidelines Pearson Secondary Broadband 55