eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Achievement was lower for all student groups in fall 2021; however, as our data have illuminated before , historically marginalized students and students in high-poverty schools were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades studied.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. The Hechinger Report is based at Columbia University’s Teachers College.). A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The post Using teacher-leaders to improve schools appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. The 1983 report A Nation at Risk highlighted how much more instructional time children received in other industrialized nations. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. average of 180 days.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And in fall 2021, 13 percent of responding institutions reported significant declines in new graduate student enrollment. Our sense from our members is that this has exacerbated the trend we had already been seeing of declining student interest in going into teaching,” says Jacqueline E.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. The Fab Lab is one way the Charleston County School District is trying to build career planning into curricula for children at earlier and earlier ages, a trend unfolding in school districts around the country. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report. PLEASANT, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. The disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. “It

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. In a non-gamey, but quietly interactive approach, Kate Zaleski, Library Media Specialist at the Woodland School in Warren, NJ, reports that she plans welcome students with a read aloud of Kate Messner’s How to Read a Story. Engagement. Gamification. She will have students.

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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). Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. PLEASANT, S.C.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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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. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

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. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 Related: Ready for Day One?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Between the fall of 2013 and late March 2016, Terry High School reported 53 arrests by school police officers, most for disorderly conduct. The arrests at Terry High School, in a suburban district on the outskirts of Jackson, Mississippi, are part of a growing trend across the U.S. Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 06 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

This story was reported by the Associated Press in partnership with EdSource, and reprinted with permission. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The post One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. ” Regina Trout, kindergarten teacher at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown, N.Y.

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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. Subscribe today! Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The post Teaching social studies in a polarized world appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. About 19 percent reported anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What are the new trends in libraries? 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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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. Remind co-founder Brett Kopf was replaced as CEO by Brian Grey, formerly CEO of the Bleacher Report. Layoffs at Treehouse (20% of staff).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. The Business of Hiring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. ” This story also appeared in The Huffington Post. Are We Ready?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. When questioned by reporters from The New York Times and elsewhere, Trump has repeated his accusation that these journalists constitute “fake news.” ” Their reporting should not be trusted.

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