NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

After eight years without a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), ESSA becomes law with references to school libraries and librarians. Deb describes the victory, attributing it largely to grassroots networking. Essa 3-10-16 from Debra Kachel.

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Broadband Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

Education 98

Education Report System Meeting 98

Reading By Example

APRIL 12, 2017

This primary class refers to these inquiry-based learning activities as “Wonder Projects” My wife and I are often recruited to support her most current questions, whether that be taking pictures of her next to enclosed animals (“What animals most often live in a zoo and why? My daughter has elected to bring home learning.

Policies 37

Policies Secondary Analysis Examples 37

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While most schools across the country are fully back in person, students continue to struggle to complete homework assignments or participate in remote learning because they lack adequate internet service and access to a computer at home — a phenomenon commonly referred to as the “homework gap.” The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

billion on elementary and secondary education. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 Schools stand to receive $2.4 billion under the 2017 budget. “We

Elementary 55

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 55

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Students with disabilities who are placed in general education classrooms get more instructional time , have fewer absences and have better post-secondary outcomes, research shows. Take your yellow paper and fold it horizontally,” Fair said, referring to a yellow sheet of paper that sat on each student’s desk. Who remembers ‘PEMDAS’?”

Training 40

Training Elementary Report Course 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

For report cards, they convert those scores into letter grades to make it simple for parents, colleges and other post-secondary institutions to understand. For example, they use the 1-to-4 grading scale in class to help students better understand how close they are to hitting their proficiency targets.

Education 0

Education Report System Course 0

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The group also chose to set out guidance for elementary and secondary school social studies instruction, to emphasize that education in the topic must begin in the early grades, Hedgepeth said. Some talked about receiving death threats and being doxxed, while others said they were increasingly fearful of losing their jobs.

Study 127

Study Common Core Advocacy Conference 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

say that there is also huge value in simply exposing youngsters in primary and secondary schools to college students. As in the United States, the universities responded in part by blaming primary and secondary schools for poorly preparing and advising low-income and first-generation students. Even the highest-income U.S.

Groups 40

Groups Secondary Study Report 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. said Brenda Vargas, director of counseling and social services for the Chandler Unified School District in a suburb of Phoenix, referring to the $38 million.

Survey 145

Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Did you ever wonder how your own students might perform on those dozens of tasks? You can now find out.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

The Trump Administration Department of Education did not respond to repeated requests to discuss this topic, and references to the American Graduation Initiative have been deleted from the White House website. To produce more graduates, colleges first need students. But the number of students on the path to degrees is not up.

Policies 109

Policies Report Advocacy Meeting 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Doe that public elementary and secondary schools couldn’t consider immigration status when a student seeks to enroll. The 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v.

Advocacy 60

Advocacy Secondary System Report 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. Watch Tressie McMillan Cottom on The Daily Show. Listen to her on NPR’s Fresh Air. Read The New York Times review of her book.

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59