The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Photo: Andre Perry for The Hechinger Report. In a crowded hotel lobby in New Orleans the day after Thanksgiving, primary and secondary students and playful adults threw paper planes towards a target for a prize of $50. Photo: Andre Perry forThe Hechinger Report. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

A Global Search for Education Reflection From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A Note from Vicki: This post is in response to Cathy Rubin’s Global Search for education where she asks about the literacy skills required for a new world. Source: Wired.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2022

Not only do educators need to understand effective graphic design, we need to teach it. Sadie Lewis helps educators understand and teach graphic design in this quick, helpful show full of graphic design resources for educators. Free Educator Wellness Toolkit. Educator wellness is now more important than ever.

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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.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A critical topic for schools, communities, and most importantly, our students, is what teachers do in the classroom to nurture ALL students, create a sense of belonging, and keep educational standards high. Her, “4 Things Great Principals Don’t Do,” was the most read and shared Education Week post of 2017. About the Presenters.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

In my first library jobs, in special libraries at the Newspaper Advertising Bureau and the Franklin Institute, one of my jobs was to copy and distribute tables of contents from new issues of journals and magazines to the professionals and scientists whose practice depended on staying up to date and making discoveries.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

While the study’s only book-related media were comic books and magazines, the results are sobering… with one caveat: strict parental control also seems to have a link to perceived inappropriate sexual behavior for adolescents. To do otherwise is to confuse education with indoctrination.”

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices. I am a lifelong professional educator. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges of education are preparing them. But we are a disappearing breed.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

At K-12 schools and universities, educators and administrators are preoccupied with preparing students for jobs that won’t be replaced by automation. Yet, 69 percent of these educators also say today’s primary and secondary curricula doesn’t emphasize creative problem-solving enough. A lack of educator training.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 10, 2019

The Week’s Classroom Education Program is designed to help solve these problems for secondary teachers. The Week now has a Classroom Education Program, which is designed to make it easy for educators to bring the discussion of current events into the classroom by providing them with the magazine and a matching Lesson Guide.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! The Charter was launched in November 2009.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? By Franklin Schargel. What grade levels are most affected?

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the series I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. So enjoy all this educational doom while you can.). National) Education Politics. Fukuyama was wrong. Good grief.

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Buncee

JUNE 23, 2021

There are a lot of buzzwords in education right now, and some represent passing fads of the latest and greatest, but others are research-backed, proven, and here to stay. As stated on the Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE) website, “NEE focuses on teaching practices that research shows have a large effect size.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Co-created by an enterprising educator in Florida and some infectious disease researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Operation Outbreak predates the pandemic, and its developers are keen to expand its use beyond the current crisis. The value of pandemic education was suddenly evident. Credit: Becky Morris.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Maybe they shouldn’t choose between education and business.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2018

I am one of few African-American educators in a predominantly white school district. After I reported witnessing dozens of white students in a group using the N-word on school property, an administrator said to me, “I’m sure that was awful for you. A student in New Orleans. Photo: Cheryl Gerber.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended). While not every piece speaks directly to K-12 education issues at present, they all speak to the wider milieu from which our conceptions of public education and consumer technology are derived.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended). While not every piece speaks directly to K-12 education issues at present, they all speak to the wider milieu from which our conceptions of public education and consumer technology are derived.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education at the University of Kansas Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas and a professor in Educational Leadership at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. Yong Zhao, Ph.D

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2016

VR may have unprecedented value to education, but that very same power must be managed responsibly. As an educational tool, VR might prove transformative. Neal also reports a great deal of success with Tilt Brush , a powerful 3-D art creation tool.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

School libraries have evolved from strict, quiet, hush-hush rooms to more interactive spaces with flexible seating, readily-available edtech tools, and educators on hand to help with research, critical resource evaluation, makerspaces. Some digital resources for school libraries are a virtual reality field trip.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Recently, the right-wing magazine The Federalist published a warning to parents in the form of a conspiratorial, unhinged and poorly supported op-ed titled, “ If The Left Ends Parent Rights, You Might Need A License To Raise Your Own Child.” To be clear, there is no attempt to create a license to parent a child. There never has been.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Remind co-founder Brett Kopf was replaced as CEO by Brian Grey, formerly CEO of the Bleacher Report. These are just the ones that were reported by the press, of course.). DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." You can find stock market data about publicly-traded education companies at funding.hackeducation.com.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

(National) Education Politics. Congrats to everyone who argued that Pokémon Go was the future of education. Congrats to everyone who argued that Pokémon Go was the future of education. Will Withdraw From Unesco , Citing Its ‘Anti-Israel Bias’ ” UNESCO is the UN ’s educational and cultural organization.

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