The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Still, per reports, just 4.7 Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. But after a problematic soft launch on Dec.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Report Survey Libraries 126

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Take Chile, for instance. percent) still bests the U.S. 75) and China (54).

Technology 123

Technology EdTech Education Mobility 123

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

Groups 79

Groups Advocacy Company Mobility 79

Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

This translates to limited upward mobility for them and their children; children of parents with low literacy skills have a 72 percent chance of being at the lowest reading levels themselves, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which diminishes the worker pipeline for the future. In fact, according to U.S.

Mobility 160

Mobility Advocacy Data Accessibility 160

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. Michele Streeter is the associate director of Policy and Advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success.

System 141

System Advocacy Accessibility Policies 141

The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

I got this compelling email from good friend and LJ/SLJ/The Horn Book publisher Ian Singer who forwarded a passionate plea to several of us to mobilize, sign the petition to Ensure all school libraries are properly staffed, open, and available for children every day and to get out the word via Twitter. We’ll report it.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Libraries Mobility Social Media 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To keep pace with the 21st century workplace, workforce development programs must provide better advocacy, choices and career pathway guidance for every American. They can also help workers build skills that are vital to employability, resilience and income mobility. But that’s only the beginning. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Policies 123

Policies Advocacy Mobility Accessibility 123

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The program operates in what she calls a “mobile-first environment,” meaning 90 percent of the program is taught on a phone, even though classes are in-person. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Learning 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2022

Following the murder of George Floyd two years ago, we saw a national mobilization that challenged the beliefs and institutions that sanctioned the behavior of his murderer and accomplices. The Washington Post’s Fatal Force tracker reports that more than 1,050 people have been killed by police in the past 365 days.

Advocacy 101

Advocacy Mobility Training Resources 101

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

As a technology reporter and mommy blogger, you’d think the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat for newborns — an infant seat with a holder for an iPad — would be something I appreciate. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination.

Mobility 79

Mobility Tablets iPad Gamification 79

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

He found that 56 percent report children being more aggressive, hyper-active or oppositional than they used to be, and 55 percent report children more shy, withdrawn or anxious. Yale professor Dr. Walter Gilliam recently surveyed 50,000 preschool teachers across the country.

Education 188

Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 188

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2022

This is the first time in two decades that the total number of HSIs has fallen, according to the advocacy group Excelencia in Education, which tracks colleges that are at and around the HSI threshold. Attending one of these institutions could be a path for many Americans to achieve a successful career.”.

Advocacy 88

Advocacy Groups Report Trends 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

Advocacy 103

Advocacy Groups Meeting System 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Yet it gave itself a D on its report card earlier this year. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I percent, but was also 2.0

Advocacy 110

Advocacy Policies Report Secondary 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Photo: Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report. The policy had been in place for years, an LHSAA spokeswoman said, before The Hechinger Report wrote about it this fall. Opposition to Louisiana’s policy has picked up steam since The Hechinger Report first wrote about it. Previously, the association’s Rule 1.5.1

Policies 106

Policies Advocacy Report Mobility 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Several public libraries in the state are providing curbside delivery of books to support the initiative, with many schools and districts offering a free book pick-up service with the help of local literacy advocacy groups. Credit: Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Reporting contributed by Neal Morton. School buses.

Accessibility 144

Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

Neo LMS

MARCH 22, 2018

More than a million cases of child identity theft are reported every year and, as school districts continue to introduce students to new technology and advanced digital curriculum, Internet safety education is becoming an increasingly essential tool when preventing cybercrime. Conclusion.

Data 150

Data Internet Safety LMS Student Data Privacy 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. The Hechinger Report has also been partnering with the film , which was shown at SXSW EDU last year. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for The Hechinger newsletter.

Social Media 78

Social Media Advocacy Conference Report 78

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. We’re doing this because mobility is the American dream.”. Why are we doing this work?”

Advocacy 92

Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 92

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide 109

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

Analysis 68

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 68

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. Some districts have defended spending less on higher-poverty schools.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Black, Hispanic and Native American first-year students showed even steeper drops in a November report, between 28 and 29 percent. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. The decline in first-time enrollment at community colleges was a staggering 21 percent. It’s just too much.”.

Trends 145

Trends Report Data Course 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

“It’s not lost on me, the significance of being the grandson of a tobacco farmer who came here for a better life, who despite having a second grade education was able to raise his family and create that upward mobility cycle,” he added. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Well, let’s do that now.”. The post Who is the new U.S.

Education 119

Education Elementary Common Core System 119

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

As a technology reporter and mommy blogger, you’d think the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat for newborns — an infant seat with a holder for an iPad — would be something I appreciate. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination.

Mobility 40

Mobility Tablets iPad Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

“For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Survey 137

Survey Laptops Accessibility Report 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Edwards is a fellow with Rise , a national nonprofit that builds student advocacy campaigns, through which she learned how to mobilize new, diverse voters. This story about student voting was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

Groups 78

Groups Advocacy Guidelines Social Media 78

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Since the pandemic, the district has used school buses as traveling mobile hotspots in an effort to provide families with reliable Internet. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Report Accessibility Laptops 99

techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

It also provides classroom management and anonymous reporting features, as well as tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. Impero also offers Impero EdLink , a mobile device management tool to help schools manage one-to-one initiatives and BYOD programs.

Software 40

Software Digital Citizenship Handbook BYOD 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2020

Through a school library’s checkout program, these low-cost mobile devices provide students and households in need with secure, reliable, and safe access to the internet. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Edcamps 54

Edcamps Accessibility Advocacy Mobility 54

N2Y

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many parents look forward to the first progress reports that arrive as fall ushers in the hustle and bustle of a new school year. Comments on IEP progress reports usually include language such as Mastered, Making Progress, Some Progress, Not Addressed, or Needs Improvement to describe advancement toward accomplishing IEP goals.

Meeting 52

Meeting Advocacy Report Examples 52

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The promotion allows teachers and schools to test out the Bloomz Premium subscription, which offers exclusive tools to communicate and coordinate with their parent community, such as unlimited storage for teachers and administrators, engagement reports, premium calendar, and more. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

Tools 56

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 56

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

O’Rourke’s commitment to stricter gun laws , universal healthcare , and debt-free college has mobilized young people across the state and the country. Voter suppression and intimidation has been a time-honored tactic in America, and in the run-up to the midterms next week, complaints have been reported from Georgia to Texas.

Outcomes 65

Outcomes Survey Advocacy Report 65

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. This story about impact of climate change was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Policies Study Report 71

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

Learning 83

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 83