Voyager Sopris Learning

MARCH 9, 2016

The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 lists music as a core academic subject. So allow me to step on my music advocacy soapbox (we call them conducting podiums) and illuminate both why and how you can support music in our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? I admire her so much so we are doing a multi part series with her. There were several of us.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 23, 2024

In 2015, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal invited me to discuss education reform and my book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education. It bears repeating that, a little more than a century ago, policies didn’t mandate mathematics education in K-12 in the way we know now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. You don’t have to choose — testing or education. Vicki: We don’t have to give up rigor.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Earlier this week, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative named Sandra Liu Huang as its head of education, filling a vacancy created when Jim Sheldon, the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, left the organization this summer. The development of the technology platform has been run by CZI since 2017.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children. Urban Institute analysis from 2015. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. and DePaul University in Chicago.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Low-income students really feel out of place at Michigan,” says Camille Mancuso, a junior and the vice president of the Michigan Affordability and Advocacy Coalition student group. Since 2015, a total of 2,016 laptops have been distributed through the program. “There’s a high population of high-income students here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar federal program. Free For Whom? So therefore, institutions must learn how to serve those students better.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

In 2015, Vanessa Ford’s 4-year-old came out as transgender. Even though she had spent 14 years as an educator at D.C. In March, at ASCD Empower, which is a conference for educators with a focus on equity, she presented with Becca Mui, an education manager at GLSEN , an LGBTQ advocacy group focused on schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2019

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015) is helping to make headway in prevention with provisions for whole student development and well-being as a part of the definition of “achievement or student success” and alternative measures. Overview of authorized topics under Section 4108 of the ESSA.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2018

In December, our center issued its third state-by-state report card on high school personal finance education. Report cards also were issued in 2013 and 2015. Our report cards are among several advocacy efforts. It’s that important.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. Higher Education. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. .

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

50 Free Online Courses For Teachers: Spring 2015. Below is a list of 50 free online courses for teachers for Spring 2015, aggregated by Class Central. Education & Teaching (50). Go To Class | Next Session : 2nd Jan, 2015. . Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Early Childhood Education.

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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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edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Sponsored by ClassLink Each year, CoSN conducts a national survey among education technology leaders to assess the current state of technology innovation across multiple school systems. Dr. Nagler said diligently educating staff is critical since the most common error tends to be user error—someone clicking on a nefarious link.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

HAMILTON, Ohio — Suzanne Prescott first noticed the changes in children’s behaviors in 2015. Scaling Beyond Butler County What’s happening in Butler County is not so different from the trauma and subsequent behaviors that early childhood educators across the country are observing. I would get that call maybe two or three times a year.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In most states, the aid program comes from the general fund, and once it’s gone, it’s gone,” said Sarah Pingel, senior policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States. Recent events in Illinois, which froze its need-based aid program in 2015 due to a budget crisis, are instructive. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

The Kawerak Head Start center in Nome, Alaska is the only option parents have when it comes to early childhood education there. In 2015-16, 68 percent of rural families with a child enrolled in Head Start received a family service including job training, parenting education, and substance abuse prevention through the program. .

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. It’s not clear that an early taste of higher education encourages more students to go to college who wouldn’t have otherwise. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today! Others offer subjects like science and art and virtual field trips to animated farms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

While there are many factors that play into this dismal outcome, according to the 2015 ACT College Choice Report , research has shown that one issue is the alignment (or lack of alignment) between a student’s core interests and their chosen major. When it is missing, students battle to complete their education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

At Whittier, only 30 of the 141 graduates in 2015 had gained full-time employment that required passing the bar. On top of all these challenges, higher education itself is, of course, seeing a variety of potential disrupters emerge, all powered at least in part through online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, in New Orleans, 30 of 72 public schools (or 41 percent) have just received a “D” or an “F” grade, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. The website The Lens , which covers public education in New Orleans, reported that 65 percent of schools have declined in performance over the last three years. “Our Weekly Update.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards. Here are the number of Iowa schools in each of the six possible report card categories: For this first year, the Department of Education distributed schools along a normal curve. That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture. And it immediately brought to mind what our peoples have endured at the hands of the education system,” Qassataq said. I felt completely violated.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. How do you hope this film is used in an education setting? And she started a nonprofit, called EveryBlackGirl, Inc.,

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

Our teammate and Events Director, Al Thomas , a former principal himself, ran the Education Leaders Network Playground, which featured 28 sessions for leaders by leaders, and one session in particular stood out when we talked about it… a session called Leading EdTech Initiatives for Social Good by Jennifer Williams , author of Teach Boldly.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

MARCH 20, 2015

March 20, 2015 A wonderful variety of goodies this week! Jx A photo posted by Johanna Basford (@johannabasford) on Mar 12, 2015 at 5:03am PDT #creative ! A school librarian advocacy video from the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, worth watching. BEST school librarian advocacy video! Enjoy your weekend! (??? ?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. percent or higher in suburban, town, and rural districts,” according to a 2017 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

These tenets hold as true for education apps as they do for those in the consumer market, privacy experts contend. Today, the Apple app store alone features more than 75,000 education apps. There’s not enough time in the day for educators to read each company’s privacy policy. Some apps do more harm than good.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Extra time does mean that other activities — from physical education to art and coding — don’t have to be curtailed. Academically, the extended day seemed to be a bust.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I am almost booked through August and am already taking fall dates for 2015 – Mike. I have traveled many places where educators have stated how much they enjoyed the Thinkfinity Search Engine. You will discover that it aligns to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the STEM Educational Quality Framework, and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.

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