Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2017

A short list of organizations includes funders like the Gates Foundation and Next Generation Learning Challenges and advocacy groups like the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE).

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. For example, why are the new ways of learning better? Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Hello Future uses a curriculum enriched with project-based learning, in which students do longer, in-depth collaborative projects. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

Learning 144

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. By contrast, some districts had been bolstering their use of online learning for several years, including Lindsay Unified in California’s Central Valley, known as a pioneer in digital-learning circles. Coronavirus gave many just days.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 22, 2020

As educators, we are part of a collective , responsible to arm our students with tools of agency and self-advocacy. She teaches children to listen to and learn from each other, and to learn about the world by understanding multiple perspectives. Mary provides readers a window into how this could be done.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

If you didn’t know how Khan Academy worked before reading this article, you could easily have missed the role the online interactive practice system played in improving student learning and just thought “OER was better!” Do fees for access to online materials disqualify a program?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group, issued a document in 2016 along with two other organizations asking states to establish performance-based funding systems that pay virtual charters based on metrics like course completion and calling on charter authorizers to close chronically underperforming schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group. Powell points to Facebook’s recent move into the K-12 space as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 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. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It It became clear quite quickly that an investment in stuff, in boxes that plug in, is not really going to pay off with a lot of learning or classroom innovation unless there’s somebody to guide that process.”. “By And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

In the case of Santa Fe, they had to help the community understand the tech was there to enhance the teaching and learning process, not replace the student-teacher relationship. In Santa Fe, for example, they worked with a local nonprofit to fund internet access for families when hotspots and other solutions just weren’t working.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

In fact, in the face of our unprecedented situation, PSLA President, Cathi Fuhrman recently shared a space for sharing Reopening Plans or Protocols and a space to view the submitted examples. Kim shared that she and her colleagues often describe advocacy in the context of the neverending burden of Sysyphus. Lady Gaga is always right.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For example, Phoenix Union is primarily funded through a state-based formula, with the opportunity for local bonds and overrides (tax levies), and some federal dollars. In most places, state governments try to compensate for the fact that some school districts struggle to raise money locally.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

Too many students in virtual and blended learning schools are performing poorly, according to a new National Education Policy Center report , released last week, by Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University, and Charisse Gulosino, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. That was the shock for us,” Miron said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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The Jose Vilson

MARCH 17, 2020

For example, nowhere in our contract does it say we must love our children, or even build relationships with them. Now, the vast majority of us have to plan for “remote learning” using any number of online learning tools that we may not be familiar with. I now have more questions than answers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Low tests scores on state tests are endemic: In Holmes, for example, just 17 percent of students are considered proficient in English and fewer than 20 percent of students are proficient in math. Related : Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? The town square anchors downtown Lexington.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

“ Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive? ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. “School shooters leave clues.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To keep pace with the 21st century workplace, workforce development programs must provide better advocacy, choices and career pathway guidance for every American. Opportunity@Work’s recently launched marketplace is one such example. But that’s only the beginning. It would be affordable, with companies paying.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

After this past school year ended, the superintendent acknowledged that 31 percent of teachers, counselors, and education leaders left the district, and scores of parents pulled their children, opting for homeschooling, online learning, or enrolling in another district. Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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