The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty. Families cannot afford to wait.

System 142

System Advocacy Accessibility Policies 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker.

Advocacy 199

Advocacy Chromebook Exercises Groups 199

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

With the movement for no-tuition community college gaining momentum in more states and earning top billing in President Biden’s education agenda , experts in college access and affordability advise caution about using that potent four-letter word: f-r-e-e. Don’t just think about access and enrollment,” Jackson says.

E-rate 143

E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. This underscores the fact that people who access the Common App at all have a high baseline enrollment rate.

Survey 195

Survey Analysis Advocacy Report 195

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

Future Ready 216

Future Ready Maker Movement Libraries Advocacy 216

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

Called SwiftStudent , the website walks students through the documents and forms they need in order to submit a financial aid appeal to their institution’s aid office. Afterwards, students print out the letter and submit it, along with supporting documentation, to their institution’s financial aid office.

Tools 159

Tools Advocacy Study Company 159

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. Slowly, she has tried to replace the missing documents.

Policies 81

Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Native advocates said some students don’t have this kind of documentation even when they are enrolled in a recognized tribe.

Groups 91

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 91

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Infrastructure and connectivity were also important, and the country was trying to find ways to connect schools and make sure that there were enough access points for all students. The program had three foundational components: access to technology, professional learning for teachers, and technical support.

Technology 80

Technology Common Core EdTech Trends 80

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So the dean asked Perreault and Gretchen Kopmanis, technology services office manager and Mac team lead, to devise a pilot program that would help low-income students get access to laptops—and maybe even improve their enrollment and retention rates, too. There’s a high population of high-income students here.

Laptops 120

Laptops Analysis Advocacy Social Media 120

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. More than 40 percent of children in West Virginia under age 6 who need child care can’t access it, she explains, pointing to data from Child Care Aware and TEAM for West Virginia Children. ARPA funds allowed Gale to try new teaching activities.

Policies 146

Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 146

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Who has access to it? But now, with entire school systems using technology as a means to access learning, those questions are growing in volume and urgency. Which technologies are collecting student data? How is that data being used? And how long is it kept?

Student Data Privacy 164

Student Data Privacy Data Survey Advocacy 164

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America, said she’s worried that the “domino effect” started by the delayed FAFSA is going to eventually affect college completion rates. Those parents, she said, “may not have the wherewithal to walk through this process with them.

Advocacy 95

Advocacy Meeting Data Trends 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

Before Savannah took the SAT, she faced the extra step of documenting her disability to secure extra time. Part of the outrageous “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal involved parents securing false documentation of learning disabilities for their children. This is no accident. But we must not allow external forces to slow this progress.

Learning 108

Learning Advocacy Report Secondary 108

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

UNESCO’s canonical definition of OER does not require “free public access” to a resource for that resource to be an OER, as some have tried to argue it should. This is wonderful news in light of recent attempts to stuff a free public access requirement into OER definitions. (I emphasis added).

OER 120

OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Black students.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Groups Report Policies 99

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

And the reason that it is so important to us, is because there is a lot of documentation that is not out there anywhere else. It’s a statistic that now we can put out there because we have documented evidence. It was never documented. Now we have documented evidence that that’s not exactly true. 2021, July).

Study 99

Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The task is equally daunting for registrars, who are holed up for days sorting, reviewing, and rerouting various documents. Tech-friendly districts understand the impact of a positive first impression on job satisfaction, advocacy, and retention. Not anymore. Show your new hires why they made the right decision.

Advocacy 76

Advocacy Software Training Accessibility 76

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When she’d shown up at the financial aid office of a Houston Community College campus at age 19, she was told she couldn’t receive tuition money without documentation from her parents—the same parents from whom she’d been estranged for three years. Jimmieka Mills was familiar with that feeling. I love the differences,” Goldrick-Rab says. “I

Advocacy 144

Advocacy Guidelines Accessibility Tools 144

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

The document notes gaps in privacy laws surrounding the use of one-to-one notebooks, which allows school officials to access computers without notice or consent from students or parents. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

Social Media 119

Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. Access to connectivity is vital to a successful classroom BYOD policy, so these issues are largely taken care of by an institution. A cracked screen, however, is a burden shouldered entirely by students.

Mobility 87

Mobility OER Technology BYOD 87

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Our students are granted the opportunity to flourish with access to knowledge, resources, the world of literature and the creation of school community. Approximately 50 schools have libraries with catalog systems, and all schools have a subscription to PA Power Library, which makes libraries virtually accessible to all schools.

Resources 106

Resources Libraries Advocacy Accessibility 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

They’ll take you to universities’ publicly required financial documents, which summarize these numbers pretty well. For more information about the topics covered in this episode: Check a private, nonprofit institution’s publicly available financial documents , which will show you its liabilities versus assets The U.S.

Report 71

Report Advocacy System Company 71

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. I watched training videos, sampled lesson clips, and read every document sent to me by 51Talk trainers.

Meeting 0

Meeting Elementary Training Common Core 0

Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Rather than thinking that students who have documented accommodations should be the only ones to utilize technology resources, allow all students to have the option. He appreciates how these tools have so many accessibility pieces “baked” into them. Teaching Resources. Technology is now a readily available resource.

Assistive Technology 96

Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

This document spells out what services and accommodations students with disabilities must get from their school districts. Experts say that’s common, and parents often don’t realize what rights their children have when it comes to accessing a full day of school.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

“I think there is optimism based on this worldwide movement and the fact that there’s worldwide attention on the way Black folks have been treated in this country for hundreds of years now,” said Alim, who is the Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group. The question I would ask is, ‘What is being done?’

Social Media 145

Social Media Advocacy Report Groups 145

NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 14, 2020

While students in nearby largely suburban schools regularly engage in information-rich learning opportunities and access to a wide variety of high-quality resources, others do not. Deb Kachel, Co-Chair, Advocacy Committee, PSLA. This injustice to SDP students hampers their success in career, college, and life.

Libraries 52

Libraries Advocacy Resources Google 52

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. Attached is a document that highlights the benefits of HB 6. members/ You could also follow up with a quick email urging them to support the bill and email the attached document. It is reposted here with permission.

Instructional Materials 61

Instructional Materials Advocacy Exercises Technology 61

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 50

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access. Disaster Strikes!

Libraries 45

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. The document simply says, “No grade.”. Julie and Matthew high-five during a home-school lesson.

Dropout 79

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

Report 128

Report Training Elementary Strategy 128

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. For many years, community members have looked to public libraries to provide baseline, public, computer and internet access.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48