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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

Edsurge

A recent survey of teachers in Washington, D.C. Compared to workers in offices or remote jobs, teachers have always had a harder time keeping up with the varying needs of adult life: car repairs, doctors’ appointments, meeting a plumber. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations.

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Nine New Lawsuits Target ?Inclusive Access? Textbook Programs, Alleging Antitrust Violations

Edsurge

More than a third of student respondents to a 2019 survey by the National Association of College Stores reported showing up for the first day of class without any of their assigned texts. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S. That’s what ultimately will drive the prices down.”

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data. The Tech Check survey “opened our eyes,” Mickens said. The homework gap isn’t new.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

Our mission is really to educate our kiddos, and in order to do that we need them in school,” said Lori McKenna, Albany’s assistant superintendent for secondary instruction. And even if a district meets the number of mandatory hours, many students still fall behind, as Martinez did. Our first go-to is not suspension.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. Data from the New England Secondary School Consortium shows that high school graduation rates in Vermont increased from 85.5 percent to 89.1 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In a recent survey of the state’s superintendents conducted by the University of Southern Maine, roughly a quarter of respondents said they planned to stick with a proficiency-based diploma, even though the law no longer requires it. Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.)

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Google search links secret, court-protected names to online coverage | Ottawa Citizen → Computer experts believe it’s an unintended, “mind-boggling” consequence of Google search algorithms. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

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