The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

Elementary 277

Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 277

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

That upward trend has continued: Since 2016, such requests have increased 117 percent. Keya Wondwossen, the director of advocacy and public partnerships at DonorsChoose, drew on personal experiences to explain to reporters why this campaign is so important to her. And DonorsChoose is taking note. classrooms.

Classroom 165

Classroom Google Advocacy Robotics 165

Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

Education 281

Education Industry Sony Policies 281

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Workforce Index, which has been published by the CSCCE every two years since 2016, did find that median child care wages in 34 states have increased since its last report in 2018. We don’t want to say, ‘In order to work with young kids and make a living wage, you have to work with 4-year-olds.’”

Industry 206

Industry Report Policies Advocacy 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus.

Groups 100

Groups Advocacy Company Mobility 100

The Web20Classroom

JUNE 26, 2016

Early Learning Network -Part of my advocacy work revolves around helping educators discover the power of connected professional learning. If you are going to be at ISTE 2016 in Denver you can also learn more about Tiggly and loads of other Early Childhood technology in the Early Childhood Playground.

Resources 139

Resources Technology Learning Digital Citizenship 139

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

A 2016 study of 67 students from researchers with Disney, University of Plymouth, University of Lincoln and Ghent University found that the children who used robots saw scores “improve significantly between a pre- and a post-test” on French language skills. Anything involving video and audio and children is uniquely sensitive,” she adds.

Robotics 151

Robotics Company Education Data 151

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

. Among the many exciting events at AASL National in Columbus was Scholastic’s release of the 2016 edition of School Libraries Work! . You’ll want to keep this important advocacy tool on hand and share copies with administrators, board members, teachers, parents, students.

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Analysis Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

Advocacy 115

Advocacy Report Study Training 115

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In this era of fake news, covfefe, and biased advocacy journalism outlets like Fox News and MSNBC, how can news consumers surf through this wave of information that bombards us daily? When I ask my students whether they’ve received training in media literacy, they respond with shrugs and blank stares.

Training 82

Training Advocacy Policies Study 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2020

The 41-point gap between the percentage of students living in poverty in Claiborne and Hinds County isn’t just one of the largest in the state, it’s the fourth widest in the country, according to an update of a 2016 report from the nonprofit EdBuild released this week that highlights economic segregation.

Advocacy 108

Advocacy Report Laptops Analysis 108

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

That didn’t stop Bryan Short, who was a student at the University of British Columbia in 2016 when he got curious to know what information the learning management system at his university had collected on him and how it was being used. That makes it hard for students, professors or even journalists to get a glimpse inside.

Data 167

Data Learning Advocacy System 167

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

Industry 181

Industry STEM Education Survey 181

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

Study 121

Study Advocacy Course Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. In national surveys of opt-out activists (conducted with Nancy Green Saraisky) in 2016 and 2018, we found concerns that go beyond the narrow features of standardized testing itself.

Common Core 111

Common Core Advocacy Policies Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 112

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 142

Advocacy Report Survey Libraries 142

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

Advocacy 104

Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 104

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This partnership is a direct response to student advocacy. In 2016, local students and climate justice advocates reached out to the Portland Public Schools Board of Education to ask for comprehensive climate literacy including understanding the root causes of climate change and potential solutions to address its effects.

Advocacy 70

Advocacy Company Accessibility Education 70

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge.

E-rate 161

E-rate Policies Study Accessibility 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

Advocacy 183

Advocacy Survey Study System 183

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

These programs “really change the future for the most vulnerable babies born into poverty,” said Sarah McGee, national director of advocacy at Nurse-Family Partnership. In 2016, 160,000 children and parents nationwide were served through a home-visiting program funded by MIECHV.

Outcomes 91

Outcomes Advocacy Training Accessibility 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Nearly half of middle and high students in a 2016 Gallup poll reported being either not engaged or actively disengaged in school. Department of Education and in my present role as ISTE Chief Learning Officer, I am struck by how often we find that students, and even some teachers, feel disengaged with school.

Advocacy 166

Advocacy Guidelines Report Personalized Learning 166

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. “Intensive advocacy falls on parents who have nothing to lose but the promising future a good education ensures our children,” said Cooper.

Advocacy 103

Advocacy Training Report Analysis 103

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

Groups 111

Groups Advocacy Report Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

STEM 108

STEM Industry Data Survey 108

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

Digital Divide 131

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 131

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized.

OER 197

OER Outcomes Comparison Study 197

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. percent in 2016. Santiago, a co-founder of Excelencia, in a statement about the initiative.

Advocacy 88

Advocacy Trends Survey Report 88

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Leila Schochet, research and advocacy manager for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, said Head Start is not only important for families, it’s also critical for rural economies. It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Report Outcomes Study 109

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The college with the biggest experiment in ISAs is Purdue University, which in 2016 became the first major public college to offer ISAs. Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory.

Comparison 218

Comparison Study Data Advocacy 218

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. At Generation Hope, we are building a policy and advocacy agenda driven by student parents all over the country that will prioritize removing financial barriers to college completion for Black parents.

Policies 144

Policies Survey Advocacy Accessibility 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

Advocacy 101

Advocacy Policies Report Accessibility 101

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

By 2016, the most common response was “one to three” years of experience. Additionally, teachers don’t stay in the profession as long as they used to. If you polled teachers on their years of experience in 1988, you would have found “15 years” to be the most common response. Source: Ingersoll, R. Merrill, E.,

E-rate 109

E-rate Policies Outcomes Advocacy 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. Sign up for our newsletters.

Common Core 98

Common Core Advocacy Report System 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

In response to rising numbers of homeless youth here, state legislators passed a bill in 2016 that freed up money to enable schools to identify more students as homeless and get them into stable housing — even if they aren’t viewed as homeless by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Elementary 132

Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 132