2008, Advocacy and Secondary

Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Domenech has served as Executive Director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association since July 2008. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A. Domenech has more than 36 years of experience in public education, twenty-seven of those years served as a school superintendent.

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes

OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

Learning

Learning Advocacy Report Secondary

AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04.

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment

Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Issues we used to consider secondary or tertiary (religion, language, ethnicity) have become primary. The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). African refugees are pouring into our state – usually they are secondary migrants (first stop was another U.S. Two fundamental shifts.

Education

Education Secondary STEM Policies

New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The transparency mandate was tucked into the 2015 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act but didn’t require states to report that data until June 30 of this year. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy.

Data

Data Elementary Trends Analysis

Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

He said that the secondary market has been bad for students as well as for the publishers, describing used books with highlighting marks from previous owners as “subpar offerings.” “We “It’s going to be a journey, and it’s a long path that we’ve been going along with students to earn back that trust.” Who Owns Student Data?

Pearson

Pearson OER Course Accessibility

AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2003-04.

Differentiated Instruction

Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment

Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy.

Elementary

Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards

Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

Learning

Learning Report System Case Study

Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 billion on elementary and secondary education. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Schools stand to receive $2.4 billion under the 2017 budget. “We

Elementary

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility

Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In his district, their journey to digital equity began in 2008 when they realized if they kept education as is, they would be preparing children for a world that no longer exists. Amanda Karhuse has served as the director of advocacy for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) since 2006.

System

System Digital Divide E-rate Education

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Aaron Swartz, 2008. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

Pearson

Pearson MOOC Company Software

10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Meanwhile, black and Hispanic students make up the fastest-growing proportion of Iowa primary and secondary school students , up from 13 percent in 2005 to 21 percent today. “We That’s a cut of 16 percent, on average, pushing up tuition faster than family incomes, and fueling public skepticism about whether college is worth the cost.

Policies

Policies Report Advocacy Meeting

EdTech Update

Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

Trending Sources

AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

Notes from the UNI Education Summit

New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

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