The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. 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.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

New report explores main blended models and their use. A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Flipped learning might also be used to help students rotate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And he says Vertus’s brand of personalized learning isn’t all that personalized. It’s not like you’re learning different stuff,” Roshawn said. Personalized learning is among the most popular solutions in U.S. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report Gordon is getting a lot of that: plaques, thank-yous, T-shirts, goodbye hugs from parents, teachers and current and former students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. In fact, according to U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2017

State leaders are collecting reams of data on students, but they must do more to put that information into the hands of parents and teachers, according to a new report. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. School leaders must work to provide data in a format that makes it easy to understand and act upon, the group says. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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MindShift

MAY 28, 2020

students are accessing remote learning as little as once a week or less, according to a new survey from ParentsTogether, an advocacy group. By contrast, for families making more than $100,000 a year, 83% of kids are doing distance learning every day, with the majority engaged over two hours a day, the survey found.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Credit: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report New York state allows students to be suspended for up to 180 days — an entire school year. A recent report from a State Education Department task force recommends such a limit in all but the rarest of circumstances. In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Your stories.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report. Related: Sent home early: Lost learning in special education. But the district claimed that AJ wasn’t being removed for a disciplinary violation, so no review was required, according to the state report. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

It’s also a mindset that many teenagers appear to lack, according to research Damon carried out at the Stanford Center on Adolescence: About 20 percent of high school kids report being purposeful and dedicated to something besides themselves.

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MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

This story about twice exceptional students was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report ). Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. But parents say there’s a long way to go.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. 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. 15, 2021, in Elko, Nevada.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. SPECIAL REPORT. Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. This year, foundations and policy groups put together $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Everywhere you walk through this building, you can learn from it.”. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Foundations promoting the model also pitched in, like the Massachusetts-based foundation Nellie Mae, a proponent of proficiency-approaches, which provided two districts with roughly $6 million in funding over seven years to support student-centered learning. It’s better than it was.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. I need to teach expository writing to this group this week.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool. Future Ready Librarians connects the dots between library and school leaders who, in fact, share a vision for future ready schools, but who may not realize they are logical partners to support innovation and personalized learning for kids.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Content aside, teachers in a classroom can walk among their students and provide immediate feedback, spot frustration or flagging attention, and assign students to work for a time in small groups — all of which is extremely difficult to manage online. When it comes to distance learning, you don’t have to be high-tech to be effective.”.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool. Future Ready Librarians connects the dots between library and school leaders who, in fact, share a vision for future ready schools, but who may not realize they are logical partners to support innovation and personalized learning for kids.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

He has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports, and editorials in major newspapers. Stacey has worked in the preK-12 education world for 20 years, spending time on school management and working for education associations including the AAP PreK-12 Learning Group.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool. Future Ready Librarians connects the dots between library and school leaders who, in fact, share a vision for future ready schools, but who may not realize they are logical partners to support innovation and personalized learning for kids.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Yet the boys, 12 and 14, have struggled with multiple disabilities — including developmental and speech delays and profound challenges learning to read — that she did not feel the schools could sufficiently diagnose. Usually when you get a report back from the school, it’s just a few pages, not a comprehensive report,” she says.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The group shared guidelines from the CoSN/AASA EmpowerED Superintendents Initiative, which were created to help school leaders implement policies to address AI/generative AI in schools. Reporting: Educate the school community about how to report incidents or concerns. David Miyashiro, Ed.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Diversion social worker Nathaniel Wylie prepares for the arrival of his first therapy group of the day. He and the Schenectady City School District’s only other diversion social worker hold eight group sessions weekly over the course of four days. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. It helps him focus, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Currently, students are recommended for involuntary virtual learning by the principal, she said, and these placements are tracked aggregately along with suspensions, which makes identifying the particular impact of virtualization difficult. Louis, in the spring of 2022. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. MESA, Ariz.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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