Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By making the creative process more explicit and accessible, AI empowers students to overcome obstacles and express their unique perspectives. It won’t necessarily have those pedagogical pieces baked in or the accessibility and other edtech integrations that you need. And AI opens up more opportunities for student creation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I million, the report estimates that 420,000 fewer homeless students were identified and enrolled in school compared to the fall of 2019. It’s school.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Online education was supposed to provide access to quality education for those who can’t attend or afford traditional college. But what does it take to make access to quality science education truly accessible for every student? Companies include an AI robot, student incubator and a startup called Pie for Providers.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2024

In Minneapolis Public Schools, for example, rates of chronic absenteeism among students with disabilities rose from 29 percent in 2019 to 53 percent in 2022. With this visibility, educators can analyze patterns like whether mental health needs, lack of access to accommodations, or feelings of isolation are contributing factors.

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. OpenStax Director of Research Philip Grimaldi and other authors asked the same questions in their 2019 article Do open educational resources improve student learning? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. Grimaldi et al.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Even before the pandemic, far too many Americans were struggling to manage their student loan debt: At the start of 2020, one-quarter of Direct Loan borrowers were either behind on payments or in default, and over a million borrowers entered default in 2019 alone. Families cannot afford to wait.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

The idea started in September 2019, based in part on Seldin’s observation that many students were unaware of the different kinds of financial aid available to them, such as dependent care allowances for students with children. Development work for SwiftStudent began in December 2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. Students have access to both a female and a male counselor and a social worker. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. percent for the 2018-2019 school year (compared to a 25 percent chronically absent rate for California homeless students in general). Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

At an event in April 2019, Diane Jones, the Education Department’s principal deputy undersecretary, said the department was considering an experiment to help colleges offer income-share agreements (ISAs), a form of financing where students who borrow money promise to pay back a percentage of their future income as repayment. Is it a loan?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

million students, are single mothers, according to a 2019 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Stressed student parents tend to be unaware of and rarely access mental health centers on campuses, according to a recent report from the Jed Foundation and Ascend at the Aspen Institute. undergraduate students, or 1.7

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Yasmina Vinci, the executive director of the National Head Start Association, an advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start explains that Head Start’s mission has always been to “to give everyone in the family an education mindset.” To do that, Head Start programs works with families as much as children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media. A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions. A 2019 ReadyNation study on the child care crisis found an annual economic cost of $57 billion in lost earnings, productivity and revenue as a result of the infant-and-toddler child care crisis.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

Every year, CoSN awards a school district with the Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity to encourage and recognize those districts that are working to eliminate inequities and narrow the digital access gap. He was recently recognized as a 2019 Superintendent to Watch by the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. Experts say that’s common, and parents often don’t realize what rights their children have when it comes to accessing a full day of school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. Generation Hope’s experience shows how access to funding and supportive relationships can make a difference in college completion.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Davenport’s tuition prices will apply to the Casa Latina programs, but accepted students will be awarded scholarships of $9,200 per year to help make the program more accessible financially. Those enrolled part time will receive a proportionate amount of scholarship funding, Sanchez said.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

In early May 2019, Savannah graduated from Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful. This is no accident.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s restructuring the relationship between a student and his or her institution,” says James Toscano, president of Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust , the nonprofit advocacy organization that is taking the lead in promoting the bill of rights. This is a consumer-protection agenda.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Next, the speakers have used technology to make social-emotional learning easier to access. And because the lessons are online, students can access their lessons outside of the classroom, giving them flexibility in how they choose to learn. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This week, the FAST Fund named its 2019-2020 cohort: professors Ryan Gamba of California State University at East Bay, Karr? The hope is that this approach will raise awareness among students about other support they might have access to and also raise awareness among college officials of the needs of those students. “I

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The 2019 Region 13 Superintendent of the Year, Bruce Gearing, Ed.D. has served as the Leander ISD (TX) superintendent since September 2019. 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. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In April 2018, privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint stating that YouTube had been illegally collecting personal data about minors who use its service without their parents’ consent, and used that information for advertising purposes. million fine levied against TikTok, a social video app, in February 2019. That was a $5.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. Low wages lead to other problems for her staff, like securing access to reliable transportation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

But at the end of 2019, an asthma-related hospital visit and the death of several extended family members sent Williams into a depression. Among first-time applicants to the Maricopa system, 27 percent fewer ended up enrolling than in fall of 2019. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses at the two-year College of Marin.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Beyond just the ability to pivot and be prepared for any type of learning, the pandemic has brought new concerns with “Zoom bombing” and increased outside access to school networks. In 2019, Mehlville opened academies at each middle school to expand personalized learning experiences at the middle-school level. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Smith’s center, A Jubilee Academy, was chosen to participate in an improvement program by PRE4CLE, a city initiative with the goal of expanding access to high-quality preschool across Cleveland. 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.

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