2025, Accessibility and Advocacy

Partner Spotlight: United Way of Greater Cincinnati

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One cohort member, the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC), has been advancing ACP advocacy work in southwest Ohio and the tri-state area. By 2025, we aim to increase digital access by 5 percent, with a particular focus on families with low incomes. We realized that advocacy would be a critical piece of the puzzle.

Advocacy

Advocacy Broadband Libraries Policies

Undocumented High School Students Are Now the ‘Post-DACA Generation’

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. before June 15, 2007 — 16 years ago.

Analysis

Analysis Policies Advocacy Report

Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Davenport’s tuition prices will apply to the Casa Latina programs, but accepted students will be awarded scholarships of $9,200 per year to help make the program more accessible financially. And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment.

Advocacy

Advocacy Groups Report Data

Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights.

Meeting

Meeting Training Advocacy Accessibility

Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. Recovery is painstakingly hard, Badboy said.

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Report Groups Meeting Advocacy

As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

Industry

Industry Report Company Training

SJSU iSchool: "Deaf Community and Culture and Best Practices for Libraries" + "Supporting Libraries and Reading in School - AB 2465"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2022

LeBlanc Memorial Library, Springfield Oregon Rosa Rodriguez, Deaf Literacy Center Manager, Pinellas County Library, Florida Marti Goddard, Access Services Manager, San Francisco Public Library Concluding Remarks (2:40 – 3 p.m. Select “Education” and that will allow you to access the site to “Submit Position Letter.”

Libraries

Libraries Advocacy Social Media Study

Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Even if that rebounds, the number of potential future college freshmen graduating from high schools nationwide will begin decreasing after 2025 , the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education estimates. Colleges competing for students “know there’s a bad brand out there for the liberal arts.

Kaplan

Kaplan Training Report Survey

Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

There are also Education Stabilization Fund – Rethink Education Models (ESF-REM) grants, and they also can be used to provide broadband access as part of a new education model. In addition, the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER) allow each state’s governor to select projects that then receive federal funds.

EdTech

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary

What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. That perspective bothers Kellie O’Quinn, director of the Center for Social Measurement and Research at Children at Risk, a children’s advocacy organization in Houston. “I

Robotics

Robotics Elementary STEM Training

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Once they do arrive on campus, many students who show poor math and English skills are diverted into no-credit remedial (also called “developmental”) courses , which makes them 74 percent more likely to drop out of college than students who aren’t, according to the advocacy group Education Reform Now; those who do finish take nearly a year longer.

Course

Course Policies Report Study

Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. schools had gained high-speed internet access, per the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum connectivity standard of 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per student.

Broadband

Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. billion by 2025. Um, they do.) Interactive Whiteboards.

Pearson

Pearson MOOC Company Software

Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

The 10-year moratorium on even partial reimbursements could create a backlog of more than a billion dollars’ worth of capital projects across state schools by 2025, according to a March analysis of Alaska’s K-12 capital spending by Bob Loeffler, a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research.

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Report System Broadband Study

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Partner Spotlight: United Way of Greater Cincinnati

Undocumented High School Students Are Now the ‘Post-DACA Generation’

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

SJSU iSchool: "Deaf Community and Culture and Best Practices for Libraries" + "Supporting Libraries and Reading in School - AB 2465"

Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

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