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New Report: Equity, Cybersecurity Top List of State Education Technology Priorities

eSchool News

The report supplements the survey findings with interviews of leaders in a number of states to spotlight their efforts to support digital learning. Among the key findings in the report and survey: Seventy percent of respondents reported that the State Education Agency or at least one district in the state was the victim of a cyber attack.

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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

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According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S. The findings, based on surveys conducted last spring by the RAND Corporation, shed light on the uneven access students have to advanced math classes in middle school, which can have lasting effects on their higher education and job prospects.

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With little federal support for families, states are stepping up  

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning.? Subscribe today! At the end of the day, children are our future — and it’s about time we begin to seriously invest in it.”.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Youth drug use is trending down. He wrote about his findings for the organization Child Trends. Subscribe today!

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‘We’re Sounding the Alarm Bells’: Head Start Report Underscores Workforce Crisis

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Tommy Sheridan, the deputy director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA), a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, was hearing stories about just how challenging it is to be in early childhood education right now. And it’s not because of COVID-19—not directly, anyway.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

The trend accelerated with that summer’s Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy.

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Food, Housing and Childcare: Colleges Addressing Basic Needs Are Boosting Success

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One challenge is there’s no federal data to back up these trends. “We Russell Lowery-Hart, president of Amarillo College One college that has started to survey its students on these issues is Amarillo College, in Texas. We need national representative data, and we don’t have it.”

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