The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I This year’s FAFSA rollout is frustrating sudents, parents and counselors and prompting calls for immediate help.

Advocacy 133

Advocacy Report Survey Libraries 133

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S. The Hope Center regularly conducts surveys assessing students’ basic needs. Department of Education.

Survey 202

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. analysis of augmented 2021 American Community Survey data.

Analysis 146

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Synchrony has conducted listening sessions and surveys with employees at all levels, including call center employees, to find out pressing child care needs. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions. That has led the company to expand its child care benefits. Xerox and Macy’s.

Policies 192

Policies Company Survey Industry 192

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

The suits name publishers Cengage Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, as well as book sellers Follett Higher Education Group and Barnes & Noble. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S. With their collective power, they could shut down resellers of books.”

Accessibility 177

Accessibility Pearson Advocacy Course 177

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A year later, a November 2021 survey by the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates—an advocacy group for students in special education and their families—found that 86% of parents reported that their child experienced learning loss, skill regression or slower-than-expected progress in school.

Education 130

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Some institutions have even preemptively eliminated race-based scholarships and special academic programs for historically marginalized groups, fearing litigation. Supporting and expanding these initiatives through advocacy and philanthropy would directly benefit the completion rates of historically marginalized students.

Education 88

Education Advocacy Mobility Report 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“We’re optimistic that Congress will follow suit and put kids and families at the forefront of its agenda,” said Christy Gleason, Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Save the Children Action Network, a nonprofit advocacy group, in a statement. “At

Policies 138

Policies Advocacy Report Examples 138

MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

In classrooms around the building, the school’s ninth-graders whizzed through an online mental health survey that would soon deliver real-time data to the group in the conference room. A statewide student health survey given every two years reveals just how prevalent thoughts of suicide are among Colorado youth.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The recent local funding initiatives across the country are focused on younger children — namely infants and toddlers — more than ever before, said Diane Girouard, a senior state policy analyst with Child Care Aware, a nonprofit group that researches and advocates for child care access and funding. “In

Report 105

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), hoping to understand how these groups perceive issues surrounding privacy and technology, conducted surveys and focus groups from May to August of this year.

Student Data Privacy 170

Student Data Privacy Data Survey Advocacy 170

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

A recent survey of teachers in Washington, D.C. For instance, we just know that students spend their days in groups of about 25: not 5, not 50. Without hiring more teachers, we’d have to abandon the idea that kids spend their entire learning time in groups of 25. Like their workforce peers, teachers want flexibility, too.

Secondary 218

Secondary Elementary Advocacy Meeting 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The research team at Rapid-EC , an early childhood and family well-being survey launched in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Dr. Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon, has tracked child well-being weekly since the onset of the pandemic. Emotional distress in children under age 5 has more than doubled.

Education 202

Education Survey Outcomes Advocacy 202

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. After facilitating each PD session, Hurh sends out a survey to attendees.

Training 154

Training Advocacy Resources Instructional Materials 154

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. She’s studying the way people like her — Black women borrowers — are burdened by college debt more profoundly than any other demographic group. Nearly two-thirds of the $1.7

Report 136

Report Policies Advocacy Mobility 136

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion. The good news is that you don’t need a bunch of fancy tools to start surveying your OST learning ecosystem.

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Data Report Survey Advocacy 255

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

Advocacy 176

Advocacy Survey Study System 176

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Climate advocacy group EARTHDAY.org released a “state of climate interactive map” to highlight how climate change is taught and the policy efforts happening in every state. The interactive tool also includes various climate issues and educational materials for different age groups. What climate education look like in the U.S.

Smartphone 55

Smartphone Social Media Trends Report 55

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 The organization offers health and time-off benefits, pays more than many after-school groups, offers full-time positions and employs substitutes when staff are out. A survey sent by the Afterschool Alliance from Nov.

Company 114

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups. It also appears that English learners are being particularly adversely impacted by Covid-era schooling.

Education 137

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College One college that has started to survey its students on these issues is Amarillo College, in Texas. Still, he added, seeing the survey results about students at Amarillo College changed his opinion about what is necessary for students to succeed.

Survey 160

Survey Advocacy Policies Data 160

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

“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. Related: Almost all students with disabilities are capable of graduating on time.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

DeSmith, 19, is part of a small group of students pioneering what is meant to become a national initiative that recognizes growing impatience with the time it takes to get through college. We no longer have the luxury of going to college for college’s sake,” said Yolanda Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America.

Survey 89

Survey Course Report Advocacy 89

Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups. Pre- and post-test data will be collected, as well as usage data and responses to monthly surveys and self-assessment data.

Mobility 165

Mobility Advocacy Data Accessibility 165

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. “There is a wide range of expertise among teachers when it comes to understanding all the different tools available to them.”

Report 169

Report Video Schoology Microsoft 169

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I The district also piloted small group learning sites to give students a safe place to go and participate in virtual classes. It’s school.” about 200 of the district’s 79,000 enrollment.

Report 195

Report Advocacy Meeting Resources 195

MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

We asked Challenged to Challenger, MIND’s affinity group for colleagues with disabilities, to share why they view their disability as prideful. Yet, surveys show that roughly 25% of employees identify as disabled or having a health condition that impacts their lives. Follow disabled creators. Learning is a continuous journey.

Education 52

Education Advocacy Accessibility Policies 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The first thing the group did, Mickens said, was to start tracking the number of public school students in Oakland who already had a device and internet service, and those who didn’t.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. Generation Hope, the nonprofit I founded in 2010 to help young parents earn their college degrees while readying their children for kindergarten, conducted a national survey of student parents this spring. Credit: Generation Hope.

Policies 137

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

this week to discuss how to get more nontraditional students—such as full- and part-time workers, parents and other underrepresented groups—to and through college. For instance, which groups of students are getting flagged more, or which students receive more kudos.) College advisors and education leaders gathered in Nashville, Tenn.,

Strategy 111

Strategy Policies Advocacy Conference 111

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. However, the desire to prove that the quality of such distributed offerings is equal to the quality of on-campus programming often results in comparisons of achievement between the two groups of student participants. That’s a pretty tall order.

OER 152

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 152

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. The surveys will be launched by Oct.

Advocacy 80

Advocacy Trends Survey Report 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

More than a third of bachelor’s degree recipients nationwide said in a Gallup survey that they would go back and change their major if they could. More than eight out of 10 first-year students say getting a good job is why they are pursuing a degree , according to a national survey by a research institute at UCLA. “I

Survey 140

Survey Study Report Advocacy 140

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

New survey delves into how teachers would use micro-credentials and examines how widely-known the concept is. The study, from nonprofit ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise and consulting firm Grunwald Associates, takes a detailed look at how teachers say they feel about professional development and competency-based micro-credentials.

Digital Badges 40

Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Advocacy Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction. There is also a deep-seated societal belief that some people have a natural aptitude for math.

Report 132

Report Training Elementary Strategy 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

And one of the four surveyed schools that’s continuing its ISA program — Clarkson University — has decided to restrict eligibility to juniors and seniors, who are better positioned to evaluate income-share agreements in light of their career pursuits and academic goals, according to a Clarkson spokesperson, Kelly Chezum.

Company 76

Company Report Survey Industry 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 25, 2022

I'll share some of the results of a survey of thousands of teachers to find their best advice for the rules and strategies to win at the game of school, and then will discuss what really winning at school means.

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Conference Advocacy Kaplan Education 45