The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. But those aren’t always apparent.

Analysis 68

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 68

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., In June, the group mobilized.

Learning 217

Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 217

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. It’s ridiculous that the nonpartisan, voter participation advocacy group Democracy North Carolina had to fight to get 29,000 provisional ballots counted in the last presidential primary.

Outcomes 65

Outcomes Survey Advocacy Report 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

In addition to policy and country reviews, the work of the Directorate includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems (INES).

Conference 36

Conference Analysis Policies Survey 36

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. How bad that cycle gets depends in part on how many low-income students and students of color can emerge from the pandemic still on a path to higher education.

Trends 145

Trends Report Data Course 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. “For

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. Related: Embattled colleges focus on an obvious fix: helping students graduate on time.

Course 84

Course Policies Report Study 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Universities and colleges that do furnish information about how many of their graduates get jobs, and how much they earn, often take it from surveys of alumni, which are more likely to be returned by those doing well than those who aren’t — though this is seldom explained to prospective students — and which can be wildly inaccurate.

Survey 40

Survey Policies Report Data 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2016

Shahid Buttar , Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) on the crucial importance of libraries in the fight to protect privacy rights and intellectual freedom. The Project has issued more than 600 reports based on its surveys that examine people’s online activities and the internet’s role in their lives.

Conference 28

Conference Libraries Survey Advocacy 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.

PLE 57

PLE Conference Advocacy Case Study 57

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via Edsurge : “ Salesforce Announces Mobile App for Advising at Dreamforce.” iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. ” “ Deloitte Publishes 2016 Digital Education Survey,” says Edsurge. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.”

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Or Is There?

Libraries 51

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. The company provides “interactive lessons and content on a mobile platform to low-skilled workers.” Cell-Ed has raised $1.5

Education 43

Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” There’s more “research” (or at least a write-up of a survey) on student loan debt in “the business of financial aid” section above. Icon credits: The Noun Project

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

This initiative was spurred by the results from a BrightBytes survey all staff and students took previously. We purchased an inclinable table, ergonomic chairs, and mobile desks. Our makerspace inhabits an empty classroom, due to declining enrollment in our blue-collar city.

Survey 29

Survey Classroom Mobility Libraries 29

Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

This initiative was spurred by the results from a BrightBytes survey all staff and students took previously. We purchased an inclinable table, ergonomic chairs, and mobile desks. Our makerspace inhabits an empty classroom, due to declining enrollment in our blue-collar city.

Survey 28

Survey Classroom Mobility Libraries 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. Via Google’s press release : “ Google and Bertelsmann launch mobile digital skills initiatives with Udacity – 10,000 Android scholarships available for EU developers.”

Education 40

Education Report Android Libraries 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off.

Policies 67

Policies System Groups Advocacy 67

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. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014.

Conference 72

Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Although YouTube was founded in 2005, it has seen an explosion in growth this decade, in part from the ubiquity of mobile devices: anytime, anywhere television-watching.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145