Education Elements

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For more than a century, standardized testing data have been used to measure the success of students, teachers, and schools - and even to mark our global competitiveness or lack thereof. The incredibly high stakes for students, teachers, and schools that were tied to these data were intended to hold us accountable for educating all children.

Data 146

Data Policies Assessment Education 146

Education Elements

MAY 31, 2022

“The last two years have been fraught for teachers as their profession has consistently attracted public attention—much of it hostile—due to political and cultural battles over pandemic-related policies on masking and vaccines and new laws curtailing instruction related to race, racism, and gender,” the report says.

Survey 281

Survey Policies Report Data 281

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The data just don’t support optimism. According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. But Holland is not optimistic. But the differences based on income are striking.

Broadband 145

Broadband Flipped Classroom Online Learning Smartphone 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

For example, national data from the past 15 years shows that rural schools are more likely to have STEM teacher vacancies than urban or suburban schools. We offer several policy solutions and recommendations for rural school and district leaders, based on our interviews with early adopters in rural Maine, Alabama, and Wyoming.

Personalized Learning 60

Personalized Learning E-rate Outcomes Learning 60

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.

Blended Learning 197

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 197

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. “All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

It points to policies the university can pro-actively ennact, and laws that could have been enforced by university police.” danah boyd has announced that she’ll be stepping down from running her research organization Data & Society. “Blame Big Data.” The new executive director: Janet Haven.

Education 51

Education ProctorU Company Report 51