eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Between 2011 and 2019, the number of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness increased nearly 10 percent, from 28 percent to 37 percent. The proportion of youth seriously considering suicide increased almost steadily from 2011 to 2019, rising to 22 percent by 2021. until May 2023.

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Trends Advocacy Outcomes Report 123

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. They should be.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Advocacy Report 131

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — The Country Music Association and Discovery Education today announced a new virtual experience from their Working In Harmony: Every Voice is Instrumental educational initiative. We know educators are always looking for fun and relatable ways to connect what they teach to the real world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 17, 2011

Join me for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Cator, the Director of the Office of Education Technology , on education, technology, and the 2010 National Education Technology Plan. Event and Recording Page : [link] Karen Cator is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S.

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Technology Advocacy Education Industry 66

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

Jennifer Bergland has written about the companion bill in the House, HB 6, at the TCEA Advocacy blog here and here if you would like more detailed information. My name is Sandy Kendell and I am a career educator. More information than you might ever want to know about the bill can be found on the Texas Legislature website.

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Instructional Materials Advocacy Accessibility Resources 92

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The position was created in 2011 to support ongoing social and emotional learning (SEL) research at the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with support from the Novo Foundation. Today, we know SEL leads to much stronger educational achievement, sustained personal development, and healthier school communities.

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Advocacy Training Policies Groups 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

As educators reflect on the disruptions of the past two academic years, they’re increasingly gravitating toward the kind of personalized, “move on when you’re ready” learning being practiced at Parker-Varney. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. It’s a view that’s catching on. Credit: Daniel Joseph.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.” Credit: Ross D.

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Advocacy Policies Report Elementary 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

It relies on a definition of personalized learning developed in 2014 by educators from 16 schools and representatives of a number of nonprofit and advocacy organizations.

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Personalized Learning Advocacy Learning Professional Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Her earlier research on a group of selective liberal arts colleges, which had adopted test-optional policies before 2011, didn’t find any diversity improvements on those campuses.

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Policies Study Advocacy Groups 139

SpeechTechie

MAY 2, 2014

Much of my efforts in writing and conducting trainings is geared toward helping SLPs and other educators see the potential use of apps and tools they might not have recognized initially as language-based. Using creativity, clinicians can reach beyond an app''s intended target audience and purpose and adapt it to support interventions.”

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iPad Advocacy Libraries Conference 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

Advocacy 141

Advocacy Data Trends Report 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Federal data show that of the 201 low-income freshmen who began at the college in 2011, none had graduated six years later. In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College.

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Policies Data Report Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Attend this session to learn about advocacy tips for school librarians.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. The organizations referenced in this post are also leaders in the field of educational technology. URL: www.christenseninstitute.org/education. Organization: Code.org ®.

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Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

His warning that an educational system is willing to remove a child from a parent is one of the cruelest threats I’ve ever seen a school district make. Although 12 percent of public school students attended a high-poverty school in 2000, this figure rose to 20 percent by 2011. percent of their white counterparts.

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Report Advocacy STEM Resources 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Beyond that, officials have quietly grown a second pot of reserve money from $160 million in 2011 to $524 million in 2016 that has no restrictions. It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In

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Policies Data Report Advocacy 85

NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Valenza, J.K. TechLearning. Valenza, J.K. It’d be Really Dumb Not to Use It. Valenza, J.K.

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Libraries OER Wiki Strategy 145

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. Instead, said Duchesneau, educators and staff need to recognize cultural and contextual differences and how they impact students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. for former general education students.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 101

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

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Industry Report Company Training 108

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. This story is part of a series that looks at what makes the 2-year-old year so critical and what could be done to better support toddlers in America.

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Advocacy Study Report Groups 101

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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Dropout Report Policies Data 105

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Center for Public Education found that while over 90% of teachers reported that they engaged in some type of professional development during the year, most found it to be completely ineffective.”. Reid described the drive to give the teachers opportunities to pursue their education. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Professional Learning Technology Learning Lenovo 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

They reported only districtwide averages, making disparities across districts the primary fodder for conversations about educational inequities. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Educating all constituents, not just about the process, but also why it’s important, is essential. They educate staff about the types of attacks as well as what to do. He has served as Superintendent of the Ithaca City School District in Ithaca, New York since January 2011.

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BYOD System Data Advocacy 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 90

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. It sends a message that education isn’t important,” he said. “It

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Report Advocacy Elementary Company 111

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She was a successful education leader in Virginia, and Texas before McGraw-Hill recruited her to lead their Urban Markets 2015-2017. She attracted national recognition for the superintendent work she led in Isle of Wight County Schools in Smithfield, Virginia from 2011-2015.

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BYOD Smartphone Accessibility Advocacy 72

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Join me Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. psid=2011-09-15.1730.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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Blackboard Advocacy Learning Study 44

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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Secondary Report System Advocacy 81

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. In 2011, Martinez heard of a free breakfast being hosted at a local church. “I It was like he was my baby.”

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Meeting Resources Accessibility Policies 149

EdTechSandyK

MAY 22, 2011

I have been learning a great deal about the political process since the start of the 2011 Texas legislative session by participating frequently in legislative matters pertaining to public education. What the majority of us want is improved public education.

Learning 67

Learning Advocacy Meeting Groups 67

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The vast majority of special education students can grasp rigorous academic content. Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report.

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Study Advocacy Report Groups 97

MindShift

JANUARY 13, 2018

Between 2008 and 2011, the researchers surveyed the study participants yearly. However, virtual volunteering, such as donating to a “Go Fund Me” campaign or writing an advocacy letter can also be worthwhile. The non-profit organization, DoSomething , also lets youth help remotely.

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Survey Social Media Study Advocacy 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Barbara writes a regular column on professional development for OnCUE (Computer Using Educators) as well as regularly posts helpful materials and resources on her blog. She works tirelessly to find and research new tools and methods that help educators. In March 2011, Shannon was awarded the Connecting People Shorty Award.

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