The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. Steve Friess for The Hechinger Report. The 19-year-old St.

E-rate 111

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Today, over 2.9 This trend follows the pattern of other public interest phenomena.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. A monitor she is wearing as part of a PE project is going off, informing her she has reached her resting heart rate, and cueing her to make a note of her current activity.

E-rate 95

E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 95

Neo LMS

JUNE 12, 2018

Streaming in schools is a contentious subject, and there are studies to show that streaming prior to upper secondary school can have a negative effect on both social and academic outcomes, particularly for underprivileged students. Streaming should really only be considered in a high school setting. What role will ed-tech play?

E-rate 213

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

billion on elementary and secondary education. Census data. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. We’re just trying to make ends meet with what we’ve got.”.

Elementary 53

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. Special education teachers joined meetings with general education teachers. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

Dropout 92

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 92

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully. He has served as Principal at the secondary level as well as Assistant Superintendent. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Broadband 97

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter.

EdTech 170

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Course might meet once a week for three hours, might meet once a week for an hour, maybe it meets every other week. So why not think of a better way to do it where if I’m doing case studies, I meet once a week for two hours? So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” Via NPR : Illinois “Lawmakers Looking At How Public Schools Handle Private Data.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold.

E-rate 44

E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

There’s more data about online education enrollments in the research section at the bottom. Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “To Juul or Not to Juul?

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali.

Education 47

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com. Even without funding data to underscore its importance, “personalization” can’t be dismissed. Why, schools of course.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

There have been some improvements, such as new schools and higher graduation rates, but there is still a long way to go. Students’ growth scores, which show how much a student has progressed from year to year, on state tests were rated a C in 2014-2015 , after two years of being an F.

How To 40

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