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JULY 16, 2020

With so much uncertainty about the 2020–2021 school year due to the coronavirus pandemic, one fact remains: The skills and resources that reflective, dedicated teachers need to navigate remote, hybrid, and face-to-face learning environments are plentiful -- and ever evolving. We hope you find something that fits your needs and schedule!

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

How is higher education responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak? (If If you’re new to this blog, I’ve been tracking the virus since it appeared in January, as part of my broader project of studying the future of higher education. You can find all of my posts about the topic here.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Four things you need to know about the new reading wars. Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2020

Ready4K has only become more popular, and some say, beneficial, as families are now largely isolated at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. After the coronavirus-induced shutdown occurred in San Francisco, the city’s school district rolled out the program for all families with children ages 8 and under. “We Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

Their experience with remote learning helped when schools closed because of the coronavirus. Teachers who previously may not have had the courage to dive into project-based learning found out during remote instruction that it really could be academically rigorous and prompt a deep understanding of class topics. But only for a few days.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: ‘A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids? An expert I consulted on this topic, Kate Zinsser, associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained: “Learning, especially for very young children, cannot happen in a vacuum and is grounded in social interactions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Now, coronavirus measures have put more than 55 million students out of school, and a year of performance observation could be lost by our inability to administer exams to students who aren’t sitting quietly in neat little rows. Related: Coronavirus opens doors to rethinking education. We should’ve listened.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

With the coronavirus pandemic pushing some 1.2 You’ve probably seen stories or heard from friends with listless teenagers at home, struggling with the new format. That’s a lot of good news about this massive new experiment in learning through technology. Ready or not, digital transformation has come to education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

As the coronavirus crisis and racial justice protests intensified last year, a group of nine Rhode Island students deeply impacted by these events channeled their reaction to the turmoil in an unusual way — research. ” in late November. Credit: YouTube. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Although our public health organizations were able to come up with vaccines to combat the coronavirus, our schools have unfortunately not been able to address the explosion of hate and bias incidents spreading in our schools and communities. They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

She was accepted at several sought-after four-year institutions, such as the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Merced, but then the coronavirus pandemic swept the world. The post Will coronavirus problems mean even more ‘summer melt’ this year? Now her college future is less certain.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In the days after Baruch closed its campus, we agonized: Should we reorganize the rest of the semester around another topic? Must we abandon the background dossiers that students had prepared on New Mexico and Texas? Amid the pandemic, could we give students hands-on political reporting experiences? Still, we were taking a risk.

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SpeechTechie

MARCH 7, 2020

In the past week, my students have had a lot of questions and comments about the Coronavirus outbreak in the USA. Encourage reliance on news sources rather than looking at random videos on YouTube. You can also discuss the narrative and social aspects of stories like this.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Over the past weeks, readers have asked us many questions about the impact of the coronavirus on education in many different areas, from admissions to advice for young children, from salaries to student privacy and whether school closures actually work. Related EdSurge article on this topic: Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Turnout was so high that the team created “ We’re Better Together Wednesdays ,” a virtual weekly seminar for families to understand more about topics they’ve expressed most interest in, including using Google Classroom and Zoom, and overcoming anxiety during COVID-19. Tools that encourage two-way communication.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback. Video game-like student characters loudly hummed or sang and talked with each other about their personal hobbies and other irrelevant topics. Coronavirus closures gave many just days.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2020

But Kim also encourages parents to project safety and security when they speak to children about the coronavirus and other tough subjects. “If If you’re nervous or scared or anxious about a topic, that will come through to a child,” Kim said. And Kim agrees that it’s good for parents to show “vulnerability.” Subscribe today!

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

How is higher education responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak? (If If you’re new to this blog, I’ve been tracking the virus since it appeared in January, as part of my broader project of studying the future of higher education. You can find all of my posts about the topic here.).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. While it’s good news that third graders are learning at a typical pace again and no longer falling further behind, they are also not gaining much extra ground.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Two years ago, when the coronavirus first caused the college to shut down, some students were excited to spend time at home and be reunited with family. This story about LGBTQ+ student counseling was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2021

Noggin’s shift to make its preschool entertainment educational comes at a time when many parents have loosened screen time rules during the coronavirus pandemic. This story about Noggin was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic-related topics, particularly the effectiveness of “high dosage” tutoring and the lack of strong research evidence for several other ideas to help students catch up, such as smaller classes. Cutting class size is a way that school districts are deploying their coronavirus relief money.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper and online resources after shuttering schools because of coronavirus. Related: Stuck at home with young kids due to the coronavirus? These students made up 9.6

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Devoting assemblies and video projects to the topic were among the recommendations from the audience. In January, Facebook said it will remove content with “false claims or conspiracy theories” related to the coronavirus. The company has also enlisted artificial intelligence to track hate speech on the platform.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. All of the 266 students enrolled at the high school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. In January, before any test results had come in, Khan was cautious about overstating the likely success of the new program. This has amplified the inequities in our community for our children.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

on Friday afternoon, organizers for SXSW and SXSW EDU, the event he came for, announced that the conferences were cancelled in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “I She heard the news on Friday afternoon. Then around 2 p.m. I was angry,” King recalls feeling. It seemed like they could have told us earlier.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

NEW YORK — Picture today’s beleaguered high school senior, stuck at home finishing classes online, stripped of graduation rituals and making college decisions amidst endless coronavirus uncertainty. Add in new financial pressures like parents who are sick or out of work. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When given assignments where I could choose the topic, I chose the climate crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. It’s not news but people have willfully ignored it.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 17, 2020

I’ve struggled with how to address coronavirus panic and all of the school closures happening. My hope was to stick to the normal topics, but every day is bringing so many changes that it’s impossible to predict if and when you’ll be able to put that stuff into practice. No one does.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Topics ranged from key developmental milestones of children and adolescents to how to get more involved in school activities and decision making. And during the coronavirus pandemic, parents and teachers are often pitted against each other in the debate over whether to open or close schools. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

Capitol remained partially shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a virtual hearing on what schools ought to do. Kim praised the RAND study as one of the “most rigorous studies that’s ever been done on the topic” of summer school. On June 10, 2020, as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2020

From these experiences, I learned how a student population, as well as a school’s administration, handles the topic of grief. families are grieving the loss of loved ones in the current coronavirus crisis. My teacher allowed us to reschedule the test we had been taking in order to process the news. Their number is growing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. climate change is discussed little; when the topic does come up, it’s sometimes dismissed as “fake news.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

It can be overwhelming,” Salvatore said, in an interview, describing his life as an online tutor in the time of coronavirus. We get lots of topics. This story about an online tutor was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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