The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. Equal opportunity goes in all directions.

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TeacherCast

MARCH 8, 2015

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington based advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are ready for success in college. Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

At Stella and Charles Guttman Community College , which opened in 2012 as part of The City University of New York (CUNY) system, 26 percent of degree-seeking students in the fall of 2018 reported a disability with the Office of AccessABILITY Services.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?”

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Prior to joining Leander ISD, Dr. Gearing served as Superintendent of Dripping Springs ISD from 2012-2019 and as Superintendent of Marshall ISD from 2009–2012. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. One advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about this issue from September 2016 to December 2018, according to the complaint.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Flat World Knowledge began publishing “open textbooks” in 2007, and Connexions at Rice changed their name to OpenStax and started publishing open textbooks in 2012. (The Free High School Science Textbooks project had been one of the pioneers of this model in the early 2000s.) And that’s essentially where innovation stopped.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Windsor Locks parents routinely refer to these communication and self-advocacy skills in describing the impact of the model, which ties into a more systemic shift in the district. In 2012, Windsor Locks Public Schools was designated as an Alliance District — one of the 30 lowest-performing districts in Connecticut.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012). Advocacy, choice, and voice should occur in the classroom as well as in any learning environment. The implication is that the most transformative learning experiences will be those that are directed by the learner’s own endeavors and curiosities.”

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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. This group makes up at least 20 percent of the general population. link] Fuchs, D.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 7, 2016

See Wiley, Hilton, Ellington, and Hall ( 2012 ) for an example of how a poorly planned print-on-demand strategy can make OER more expensive than publisher textbooks.) This advocacy will be significantly more effective (and less hypocritical) if the faculty member is using OER in the class and can point to OER they have created and shared.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This focus on access to high-quality preschool was born out of a larger city-wide plan to transform schools, introduced in Cleveland in 2012. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. That plan identified preschool as an important first step to improve K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Calen Evans, a STEM coordinator in the Washoe County School District and president of an advocacy group called Empower Nevada Teachers, is bracing himself for that change yet again. He has worked under four superintendents since he started with the district as a substitute teacher in 2012. The new hire will be his fifth.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Ann also attended the 2014 White House Connected Superintendents Summit and was named a 2012-2013 NSBA Technology Leadership Network 20 to Watch Educator. McGavock Elementary, where Dr. Marczak served as principal, earned Reward status by being one of the top 10% elementary schools in the state of Tennessee in 2012.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Prior to coming to Highline in 2012 Dr. Enfield served as Interim Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Dr. Chris Gaines is Superintendent of Mehlville School District in suburban St.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While each gifted journey may be different, and the obstacles each gifted child and their family face can be simply inconvenient or tragically painful, there are three areas teachers and parents should remember when searching for answers to help better the educational, emotional and social lives of gifted children— advocacy, activities and mentors.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

Then, being announced today, is " Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques " with Dr. Sue Alman on February 21st. LIBRARY ADVOCACY: EVERYDAY MARKETING TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES" A 75-minute webinar (live and recorded) in a special Library 2.0 More details on both are below. Registering for one of the Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Date : Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2012-02-02.1707.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. He also advises the state departments of education in Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

When I began in 2012, Raven had an ELL population of less than 5 percent. Suzanne was awarded the National PTA’s Life Achievement Award in May 2007, the highest honor from the nation’s largest child advocacy organization. Here’s what I learned. My Seven Years with ELL. percent of the school. affiliate].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Prior to her appointment as a full-time faculty member at the San Jose State University iSchool in 2012, Sue coordinated the Library Associates Program (University of Michigan) and the LIS online program (University of Pittsburgh.) Sue earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and has held positions in a variety of library types.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media MOOC 28

ExcelinEd

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Learn how your state can expand access to high-quality computer science education to unlock lifelong opportunities for students at ExcelinEd.org/ITCS and Advocacy/Code.org. Yet not everyone has the chance to access this critical subject. What Others Are Saying. The only thing that could make CSEdWeek even better?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. based advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said universities need to go beyond that sort of passive outreach, especially for students who may be hesitant to seek out help. “We Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. It was a well-timed initiative.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 53

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The point of the public program, as it was presented to voters in 2012, is to boost long-term educational outcomes and eventually improve the citywide workforce. Former mayor Julián Castro placed the initiative on the November 2012 ballot, where it passed with 54 percent of the vote.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

He was founding chairman of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition, founded in 2009, as a DC-based advocacy organization promoting government policies and programs to assure gigabit fiber to libraries and other community anchor institutions(CAI’s). John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

It was co-created by a University of Northern Colorado psychology professor and has been used in Boston Public Schools since 2012-13. Mental Health Colorado : [link] This statewide advocacy organization offers a free mental health toolkit for schools. The coalition works to reduce suicide through education and advocacy.

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