The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The United States leaves it to states to set policy, and, absent statewide bans, local school districts make their own rules. District policy is to respect parents’ preferences, but that doesn’t always happen. Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out.

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Some school districts consider virtual learning an alternative to discipline — not a form of discipline itself. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Miles Hooper, the 26-year-old manager of Vermont’s largest goat farm, remembers what it’s like to be 16 and not want to be in a classroom. It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Discovery Education provides digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms around the world. Also, I think that we’re going to see–both in federal and state policies–a merging to prepare students for their future, not our past. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts.

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Education Company Dropout Policies 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Sixteen-year-olds share classrooms with 20-somethings, students earn diplomas at their own pace and if anyone has a problem with a peer, they’re encouraged to talk about it like adults. Burgos, too, has relied on staff support for help outside of the classroom. I wouldn’t have had that anywhere else,” she said. “I Photo: Natalie Gross.

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Dropout Policies Report Course 96

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Federal policies still disadvantage the island, the result of a “quasi-colonial relationship,” said King. Students struggled to get back on track after in-person learning resumed: More than half of all students were “disengaged” between February and May last year, according to an estimate in a 2021 U.S. Its residents are U.S.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. Housing policy is education policy.”. “We

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 142

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Hundley describes him as a positive person, obsessed with food and something of a jokester, though more reserved around people he doesn’t know well. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 131

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Those clinics] were a major place where young people go to get care,” said Rachel Fey, vice president of policy and strategic partnerships at Power to Decide. “So The teens learn how to apply for their birth certificates and get a driver’s license or social security card.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 109

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical and Adult Education and Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development , respectively.” which makes these sorts of policy moves chuckle-worthy (to me, at least). “ Robots in the classroom ? in 2016 on a student visa.”

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. Hundley describes him as a positive person, obsessed with food and something of a jokester, though more reserved around people he doesn’t know well. Middletown, N.Y.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The school district of Cheraw, Colorado, educates 225 students, roughly half of whom transfer in from other districts through the state’s open-enrollment policy. Snyder heads out of his office and into classrooms. People like Snyder. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Training Report Policies 112

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The highlight: I visited a school on Friday and met with some wonderful, genuine, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students and our conversation was not long enough to draw out of them what is limiting them from being even more success from what they are currently. ” Education in the Courts.

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Education Khan Academy Robotics MOOC 46

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. This idea that if I work hard, I can get better — that’s really clear in an arts classroom,” Abramoski said. “If

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Laptops Report Strategy Outcomes 56

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

And while that’s true for anyone, her learning, on a day-to-day basis, is designed that way. But that’s too broad for policy, apparently. Or learning disabilities. So when she talks about what it means to “do well in school,” she has to shift her thinking. Or too narrow. College is just a word.

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Dropout Common Core Analysis Data 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Be a Presenter at Reinventing the Classroom. We want YOU to present at the Reinventing the Classroom conference on May 1st - all about the impact of ed tech on the classroom experience, and kicking off our self-proclaimed May as "Ed Tech Month." The call for volunteers is now open - please join the group and sign up here.

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BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” “ Can personalized learning prevail?

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — Xerras said afterward.).

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Study Training Report Industry 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In another story from Indiana’s voucher program this summer, Chalkbeat found that “$16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. This is the part where someone always cites Arthur C. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55