The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The report card grades states on eight policies identified by the campaign as solutions to the crisis. Even before the pandemic began, more than 1 in 3 high school students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Connecticut, meanwhile, permits K-12 students to take two mental health days per year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. In contrast, many microschools today include mixed age classes but take advantage of new learning technologies to make the small school model more feasible.

Policies 83

Policies Libraries Instructional Materials Secondary 83

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Research shows that Black students who have at least one Black teacher in elementary school are less likely to drop out of school and more likely to go on to college than Black students who do not have Black teachers. NYSE: LRN) helps students of all ages reach their full potential through inspired teaching and personalized learning.

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Secondary Software Company Training 98

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Brian Bushart is an elementary math curriculum coordinator. Mohammed is Chief Innovation Officer at San Antonio ISD and is a favorite to follow for insight into education policy. Personalize Dallas ISD @PersonalizeDISD. Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TESPA) @TEPSAtalk. October 21, 2019.

Twitter 80

Twitter Education STEM Policies 80

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

Trends 142

Trends EdTech Industry Data 142

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program. Under his guidance, Clover High School has embraced personalized learning and innovative solutions to cater to the diverse needs of the students.

Edmentum 90

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 90

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

Personalized Learning 69

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Remote learning has changed the approach to out-of-school suspension at Shenendehowa Central School District, where more than a fourth of students identify as nonwhite. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid. Oliver Robinson. Robinson says. Ali, co-author of a report on the tech gap.

Learning 141

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

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.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. Chris Berdik.

Training 111

Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Our mission is really to educate our kiddos, and in order to do that we need them in school,” said Lori McKenna, Albany’s assistant superintendent for secondary instruction. Our first go-to is not suspension. However, when we have pretty severe incidents that are happening, there may be a need for extended periods of suspension.”

Report 93

Report Survey Data Comparison 93

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Jenny Muñiz is a senior program associate with the Education Policy program at New America. After serving as a New America Millennial Public Policy Fellow, Jenny joined the PreK–12 team, where she researches and reports on policies and practices related to English learners, culturally responsive education, and educational equity.

Strategy 40

Strategy Policies Advocacy Secondary 40

edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

Strategy 96

Strategy Dropout Industry Professional Learning 96

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The plan would close and replace low-performing schools, including turning some over to charters; give principals more power over their own curriculums, budgets and policies; raise taxes to fund the effort; and offer high-quality preschool to all children. Covid put the district’s gains in jeopardy.

Education 97

Education Report System Meeting 97

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 24, 2016

Technology “can personalize learning, engage the disengaged, complement what happens in the classroom, extend education outside the classroom, and provide access to learning to students,” the report reads, but “the number of [social-emotional learning] products in the ed-tech market today is insufficient.”

Report 40

Report Learning Trends Survey 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

Education 40

Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Decision-makers rose to the challenge in the initial waves of the pandemic, enacting temporary policies to permit and reimburse for online education services. Though these policies made a big impact, many have expired in favor of returning to the status quo. Educators will embrace brain science and screen time in early learning.

EdTech 132

EdTech Industry Assessment Data 132

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Decision-makers rose to the challenge in the initial waves of the pandemic, enacting temporary policies to permit and reimburse for online education services. Though these policies made a big impact, many have expired in favor of returning to the status quo.

EdTech 67

EdTech Learning Industry Data 67

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

One week into the semester, the district shut down in-person learning for two weeks in order to get the situation under control. P.S. 705, an elementary school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn , also communicated extensively with parents. They had lots of secondary transmissions. They had lots of kids quarantine.”

Report 126

Report Elementary Data Policies 126

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 9, 2017

What if we had a school with a no homework policy? What if we took kids on learning excursions every week? In this session we will interrogate the notion of 1:1 and explore alternative ways of supporting Blended and Personalized Learning in our schools. Student-Owned Learning Environment (re)Design. Let Them Lead!

Conference 28

Conference Assessment Classroom Tools 28

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Education Politics. Not much,” says The LA Times’ Joy Resmovits.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As new forms of data are easier to collect and analyze, drawing on and interacting with information to measure the impact of programs and to inform decision-making and policy has emerged as a key strategy to foster improvement in public schools. Under surveillance by marketers. Under surveillance by companies. Under surveillance by schools.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 9, 2020

So it’s actually looking at my classroom practices and policies and ensuring that they are affirming and valuing the students who are in the room and uplifting groups that have been traditionally pushed to the margins by the oppression and racism that exists in our society. Which authors am I uplifting?

Classroom 98

Classroom Groups System Resources 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

And so I really want to think that through a little bit more, especially when we think about the challenges for the coming year, because it’s difficult to have to distance yourself from students, where you’re either teaching them remotely, or you’re having to change how closely you can interact in person.

Classroom 52

Classroom How To System Groups 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Many states are considering or have similar policies in place; these opportunities must be advertised broadly. Nearly 7,500 schools had to cancel in-person learning on one or more days in just a single week in January 2022 when the omicron variant of Covid was prevalent. Communities across the country, from Washington, D.C.,

Secondary 101

Secondary Exercises Elementary Training 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

There is no policy area in our governance “more complex than elementary and secondary education,” education professors and researchers Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn wrote in their in their 2013 book. Because it wasn’t just teachers who wanted to delay in-person learning.

Elementary 77

Elementary System Secondary Report 77

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Anyone interested in improving schooling through digital tools has to distinguish between what the media hypes and what policies are actually adopted. Then, one has to further distinguish between the hyperbole and adopted policies and programs before determining what teachers actually do in their classroom lessons.

Technology 78

Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We still have not realized the guarantee to an equal education promised more than 50 years ago by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We didn’t hear much in the way of education policy from either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton along the campaign trail. And yet, education is the lynchpin to our shared American dream.

Accessibility 84

Accessibility Secondary Education Broadband 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Credit: Katie Cotterill for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Policies System 106