EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a globally competitive world, we must support extroverts and introverts working together in balance to provide better outcomes. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Provide students with different options for how they want to learn. Create Student-Centered Classrooms. Embrace Reflection Time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. So therefore, institutions must learn how to serve those students better.”

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2018

While four-year-olds can’t compete with even third graders in engineering, they can learn and benefit from modified lessons. They learn how to communicate their ideas to each other and work toward a shared goal. Agency: Students of all ages are more invested in the lesson when their actions directly impact the outcome.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. They need to develop relationships with each student, learn about their individual situations, and help them as needed. Noguera, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

James, a secondary teacher in his third year, was one of many teachers considering what this might look like for the students in his classroom. So he reached out to me, his digital learning coach, to give him a better idea of how implementation might happen in a more intentional and sustainable way.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Catalyze Challenge was created to meet this moment, with grants funding inventive ideas for career-connected learning at middle and high schools and programs supporting the transition to early college coursework. We’re thrilled to support these bold ideas that integrate career education for all students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. But research suggests any housing instability — whether that means sleeping in a tent or a cousin’s basement — harms the ability of young people to learn. Oh no, Mom.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

In the edWebinar, “Strategic Technology Planning and Investment: Priorities, Cost and Impacts in Today’s Learning Environments,” sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , three superintendents shared how they turn their stakeholders into advocates for a sustainable technology system in their districts. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Dr. Gonzales’s district is reaching out to local non-profits for help with the shift to 100% online learning, which cannot be done quickly or cheaply, especially at a time when the district is receiving less state funding. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Now, Savard says, learning targets are clearer, and there’s more opportunity to truly understand the material. Statewide standards set expectations for subject areas students are supposed to learn, but graduation requirements are set locally in Vermont. It’s better than it was.”. Moving in this direction is really a paradigm shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. Forty-five percent of Black children go to high-poverty primary and secondary schools , compared to 8 percent of white students. It’s just the way society is.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

A lot rides on the school system’s continued improvement: Not just student outcomes, but also the future of the city itself and the fortunes of its young, new mayor, Justin Bibb. Student outcomes improved. Students lost between 3 and 14 months of learning. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

I want to make sure we have equitable outcomes throughout the state, regardless of where you live, regardless of background.”. He said that he’ll also be looking “outside the school house” to consider other factors that contribute to a student’s readiness to learn. It’s still the top of the list for me. They have a voice — right?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. Total cost of ownership: First, administrators need to look at the expenses from a systemic view. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Studies show that when black adolescents feel their teachers lack respect for their background, it can harm their academic outcomes. A decorated educator of 21 years, Monica has received honors and awards from a wide variety of organizations for her leadership, advocacy, and classroom instruction. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework. So it was never tailored toward somebody with a learning disability.”. That’s very easy to tell somebody,” Hendricks said.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” And I want to do it worldwide… Personally, my goal is not to provide less expensive access to the same teaching and learning experience to more people – access and affordability have never been my end game.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The principal authors, Vicki Park and Amanda Datnow, make a not-so-provocative claim that may still cause consternation in education: Rather than data driving the decision-making, student learning goals should drive what data are collected and how they are used. The ownership for the work rests largely on the students’ shoulders.

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Reading By Example

MAY 29, 2015

For K-12 schools, teachers may no longer be required to have a degree in education, or even a degree period, to teacher courses in secondary schools. I asked two major software vendors on Twitter , who our district partners with regarding student learning, on where they stand with these cuts to public education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. Calling out a child with a behavioral disability in front of the class usually backfired, and made the situation worse. No one taught her these strategies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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