Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. From the US Department of Education ’s Press Office : “U.S. Fines Google $5.1

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Education innovation can follow a similar pattern. In the early 1990s, Kentucky districts were among those grading student portfolios and assessing performance tasks, instead of standardized tests, and they found themselves on the cutting edge of educational assessment. David Cook, Kentucky Department of Education.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Education Politics. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. ” The Department of Education press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Issues Statement on New Title IX Guidance.” ” Via NPR : “ Trump And Transgender Rights : What Just Happened? .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This is part six of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Some of the most oft-told tales in education in recent years have the following plot: the students all move from “brick-and-mortar” to “online.” Online education, we’re still told, will be education’s disruptor.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. While BDEA’s approach to education may once have been a radical departure from the norm, experts say it’s gaining in popularity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

They replaced the hodgepodge of learning platforms and apps with more uniform systems, eliminating multiple passwords and making them easier to navigate. And they endeavored to better define how to take attendance and what it means to be absent or present in virtual education. We’re going to lose students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No More than one in five college students are parents , according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and some 42 percent of them attend community colleges. Second chance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Dobrin has embraced the school’s new proficiency-based education model and now offers his students many choices inside his classes. This change is part of a larger move at the university towards “proficiency-based education” (sometimes called competency- or mastery-based education). Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hechinger and AZCIR obtained, through public records requests, data from 150-plus districts and charter networks that educate about 61 percent of Arizona’s 1.1 Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. million public school students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 4, 2015

This approach has alienated a significant number of potentially brilliant children who, for whatever reason, didn’t make the cut, which creates a useful context to rethink education. These limited answers, to me, miss the point of education entirely, but I’ll get to that in another post. Or learning disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. 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. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” A similar proportion receive special education services, on par with the statewide average for high schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. For these students, poverty brings a host of other disadvantages, most beyond the school district’s control: broken homes, transient living situations, and a lack of educational support at home. to 11:30 p.m,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Policy experts believe the JOBS bill will move forward only as part of a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which provides federal aid for postsecondary education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

He’s also the superintendent of the district of 225 students, as well as the maintenance director (until the school board can replace the person who quit the month prior), a substitute teacher and, once he gets his license, a fill-in bus driver. Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Yet experts say it is the canary in the coal mine that other districts could learn from as they grapple with the effects of climate change on learning, health and infrastructure. “How Miguel Cardona, the secretary of education under President Biden, promised “a new day” for Puerto Rico. ” said John King, a former U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Fifty years have passed since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect. The law guarantees the right to an education for pregnant and parenting students. Some educators still believe that having pregnant or parenting teens in school or providing services like nurseries will encourage other students to get pregnant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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