Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Our Future Trends Forum session connected Beatty to hundreds of people, and is freely available on YouTube : If that’s too much content, EDUCAUSE has a two-page, concise intro. My point is that academic writing about academic technology should do a better job of acting like they’re entering ongoing academic discussions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. What characteristics make them potentially disruptive? But this isn’t just a “time will tell” story.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2021

It definitely throws them off track,” said Samuel West, District P-16 director at Houston Community College. The trend hit unevenly across the country, with some colleges seeing increases while others suffered double-digit nosedives. For those who do go, it means that getting a degree could take longer and cost more. “It

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Our $731 billion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. About Francisco Partners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These diverging patterns are reflected in the graph below, with the upward trend in funding total (green bars) and downward slope in dealflow (red lines). Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. Source: EdSurge.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. The change in viewpoint is deeply respected.”.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

The notion of social-emotional learning, which often overlaps with such ideas as “noncognitive skills” and character development, does not yet have a consensus definition, although many in the field follow the model outlined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.

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Reading By Example

MARCH 30, 2019

This book would definitely work as a read aloud for upper elementary and invite students to explore more books by Snyder. Definitely a book to have in the secondary classroom library to build diversity and cultural relevance. It was hard for him (us) to put it down. Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. A graphic memoir (?)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

So, there are faculty that are kind of leading the efforts, but definitely students working in facilities to create the face shields. DELECE SMITH-BARROW: I think these waivers will definitely change the admission cycle. Are there any other issues of access or equity, any trends that you’re seeing or expect to see?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Less-selective colleges and universities, which were desperate to fill seats as the pandemic began last spring, offered financial aid to students from higher-income families that didn’t meet the federal definition of having financial need. But small gestures like that “aren’t showing up in the data,” Levine said.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

I've been a resident of the Lone Star State for over two years now, and I can definitely vouch for the saying: Everything is bigger in Texas! Another "big" for Texas is education, and when I'm looking to get a pulse on what the current trends and landscape are, I turn to social media! December 6, 2019. Texas Education Agency @teainfo.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

Most secondary schools, teaching philosophies, pedagogies, teacher certification programs, and universities would balk at a goal to have students not thinking critically about what they’re learning. … We are responsible for thinking with our students, not for them. To do otherwise is to confuse education with indoctrination.”

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

I’m assuming it’s very different for elementary than secondary. Erin: I’m going to let Ross jump in in a second, but I just want to address here the piece about the secondary versus the elementary. So I thought that that was a really unique way to work PBL into a secondary classroom model.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. Whether the strategies produce better results for students is an open question. who attempt to replicate its project-based model. Probably not,” she said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. They’re amazing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0: Definitely worth a listen.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Whether that’s an aberration or a trend is something that will require another year of test scores to determine.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. Girls in primary and secondary school globally read more than boys and spend more time on homework, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development , or OECD. Research shows it’s also universal.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Brief for “electronic book,” the basic definition of an eBook is content that is presented in an interactive digital format, accessible from one’s smart device, eReader, or computer. Here’s a deep dive into key trends: . Identify primary and secondary keywords that can enhance search results. eBooks Simplified.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For a sense of how big this trend is, consider Guild Education, a startup that helps set up and run these education benefit programs by connecting big companies and colleges. And there's definitely not a consensus yet on what that change should be exactly.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 14, 2019

After almost a decade of teaching in the secondary ELA classroom in the United States and abroad in Bulgaria, Betsy started the Spark Creativity website and podcast. So I’ll tell you my definition and what introversion feels like for me, and then I’d like to hear what your interpretation is. Yes, definitely.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. by NAMLE): This one-pager has a definition of media literacy as well as six key questions to ask when interpreting media. Media Literacy! (by

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

I certainly contributed to that with a post that I put out about a year ago called, Frickin’ Packets , which is all about this sort of trend that we have of teachers just making these massive packets of worksheets and just handing them out to students, and that’s sort of the way they deliver instruction.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I will give a bit of a disclaimer that this is more of an elementary-focused episode, but frankly, I think we have a bigger problem with waste, plastic, lamination, and so on at the elementary level than at the secondary level where it’s more common to find paperless and nearly paperless classrooms. So this was a major win for my classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

I really think that even though Genius Hour is all about choice in terms of what they want to learn, teachers have to have a definite structure of what the process of learning looks like. So when I did Genius Hour, I kind of bucked the trend, and I said to my students, “You’re not getting a grade for this.” They were like, “Mr.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 25, 2019

This is something that I especially felt like my secondary colleagues were judging themselves on, if they could hold the attention of their students by being really interesting. I just want to say that because whenever I see that pattern, I realize this is a really big trend. 1) Shifting from being interesting to being interested.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I really think that even though Genius Hour is all about choice in terms of what they want to learn, teachers have to have a definite structure of what the process of learning looks like. So when I did Genius Hour, I kind of bucked the trend, and I said to my students, “You’re not getting a grade for this.” They were like, “Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

There are definitely counselors losing sleep over if their kids are OK.” Similar trends have appeared in other states. There are definitely counselors losing sleep over if their kids are OK,” said Amanda Nolasco, the school counselor specialist for the Arizona Department of Education. “I My job was mostly reactive.”. It’s tough.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I definitely would have. Unsurprisingly, given these trends, the proportion of low-income people getting degrees is declining while the proportion of higher-income ones continues to go up. It’s just like a supplement.” He would have been able to afford Cornell without it, Stajkovic said.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

Staff are also planning to allow students in the secondary school (grades 7-12) to eat lunch outside on a rotating schedule once a week, weather permitting. But it definitely will not be the same as last year. In addition to recess, the school may allow physical education and some science classes to be held outside, where possible.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. Who might benefit from such a restrictive definition of universities?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Thayn’s recognition that most parents can no longer afford to stay home with their young children is in keeping with a national trend among conservative policymakers, said Katharine Stevens, a resident scholar with a focus on early education at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. “We

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” weird that, eh?) .

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