The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. The post OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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How To Advocacy Learning Policies 78

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 81

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. That is concerning from a workforce diversity perspective,” says Elizabeth Steiner, the co-author of the report.

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Report Meeting Groups Data 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. RELATED: Psst!

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Elementary Learning Data Report 108

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Calen Evans, a STEM coordinator in the Washoe County School District and president of an advocacy group called Empower Nevada Teachers, is bracing himself for that change yet again. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Credit: Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent Students walk to their next class at Elko High School on Dec.

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Meeting Advocacy Report STEM 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 70

MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

This story about career readiness was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report). The nonprofit provides STEM-focused career education, research and programming to school districts around the country.

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Robotics Elementary Training STEM 44

MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms. The study was financed by an environmental advocacy group, not an unbiased source. START EARLY. BREAKING DOWN THE FACTS.

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Digital Citizenship Study Social Media Report 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 127

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But I don’t see my advocacy as a zero-sum game. More women than in the past are graduating from college in the STEM fields, and for the first time, women make up the majority of law school students. Scholastic’s 2015 Kids & Family Reading Report confirms Ms. This stayed constant across countries and family income.

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Advocacy Knowledge Base Accessibility Report 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

A hallway at Franklin Elementary school lined with tiny lockers and student art. Katrina Allen, principal at Franklin Elementary School in Syracuse’s Washington Square neighborhood, has watched her city transform from manufacturing boomtown to bust. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y., Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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Common Core Elementary Comparison Examples 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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Industry STEM Education Survey 133

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three. Student Mother Struggles Nearly 10 percent of U.S.

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Policies Strategy STEM Advocacy 186

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a CoSN report , more than half of school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are in rural areas. He received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern Mississippi in elementary education. Matthew Dillon is a native of Columbia, Mississippi. He received his M.Ed.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

My friends without such advocacy found themselves systematically excluded from certain courses by the invisible hand of adults who did not know them and used the school schedule to cajole them toward courses and pathways that, over time, calcified and shaped their identities — and aspirations. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Course Accessibility Advocacy Outcomes 117

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Students, their parents and guardians, and educators continue to grapple with the stress, depression, frustration and grief stemming from closed schools, lost jobs and wages, death of loved ones and prolonged uncertainty caused by Covid. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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Groups Report Meeting Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

“I like building stuff,” said 11-year-old Isabella Lagunas, describing the appeal of her science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) after-school program, Girlstart. “In For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It

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Survey Laptops Accessibility Report 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. For testing and student data reporting, Northern Cass will still link students with an expected year of graduation. HUNTER, N.D. — We take the tests. Steiner plans a similar approach.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Under federal law, it is illegal to bar a child from receiving the same education as their peers based on conditions stemming from their disability. Experts appointed by the court to research the issue found that about 1,000 Oregon students with disabilities — most of them in elementary school — are on shortened schedules.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 100

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

And though she wished the media would take the spotlight off public figures like herself, that didn’t stop her from taking potshots at rivals, such as Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers union, or the Obama administration, in a talk that segued from prepared remarks to a conversation with New York Times reporter Erica L.

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Guidelines Advocacy Secondary Policies 64

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report. The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Terrell Clark/The Hechinger Report. Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company.

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Report Company Data Meeting 112

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Newsletters Why : Advocacy, community connections, sharing resources, showcasing student work How : Wakelet , Padlet , Smore , Google Slides, PPT “A newsletter is a wonderful way of advocating [for your library], Holzweiss said. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ NSF starts requiring that institutions report findings of harassment and suspensions in its funded labs and field sites, and reminds institutions that it can pull funding where necessary.” ” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.”

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Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Lights go out at Education Department headquarters – and may stay off for some time,” The Washington Post reports. ” Via The Atlantic : “It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work After Graduation.” National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics.

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Related: ‘Kids who have less, need more’: The fight over school funding School funding stems from three major sources: federal, state and local. The same report noted that roughly 60 percent of districts reported spending “less money on high-need students than they were allocated for these students.

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Report Advocacy Case Study Study 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Credit: Levi Pulkkinen for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Levi Pulkkinen for The Hechinger Report. based advocacy organization lobbying for anti-hunger programs. The rise in hunger comes down to two elements: need and access, said Kelley McDonough, a senior program manager for No Kid Hungry, an anti-hunger advocacy group.

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Advocacy Report Policies Data 144