Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

More than a third of student respondents to a 2019 survey by the National Association of College Stores reported showing up for the first day of class without any of their assigned texts. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2018

He was recently elected ISTE president for 2019. He believes that the only way to deliver a dynamic student learning experience is by empowering his librarians to be leaders in everything they do. Bass has earned numerous awards, including being named an NSBA “20 to Watch” and an ISTE Making IT Happen award.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe Recently, EdSurge spoke with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , about using educational tools that not only harness the power of AI but also uphold the creative integrity of students and teachers.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Attend the CSTA Annual Conference (July 7-10, 2019 in Phoenix, AZ). Nearly all of the options listed have professional development available. Advocate to bring CS to your school. Earn a credential or certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The federal 2019-20 attendance data appears to be even less reliable. The post PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Other states admitted to very high absenteeism levels in the federal 2020-21 data.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The Digital Equity Act of 2019 would create two new annual grant programs—one formula grant, one competitive—of $125 million each, to be distributed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. DigitalEquityNow [link] — Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) April 11, 2019. The same holds for U.S.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Our large district summit, which received rave reviews at the 2019 conference, returns for its second year. In preparation for CoSN2020, we plan to release a number of new resources , including: 2019-2020 IT Leadership Survey results. New resources on student data privacy. Our Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles & Accelerators report.

Student Data Privacy 150

Student Data Privacy E-rate Conference EdTech 150

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

This is landmark legislation,” Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy at Girls Who Code, tells EdSurge. They will begin tracking and recording the information in the 2019-2020 school year, with their first submission due in June 2020.

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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

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

Department of Education, privacy advocacy groups and a school district explore how to find the right balance between the two ideals. Students’ Safety or Privacy? Why Not Both? Are safety and privacy zero-sum rights, and must one be sacrificed for the sake of the other? Speakers from the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2019

Five powerful edtech accelerators are influencing the skills and needs of K-12 students and educators, according to a new CoSN report released during the advocacy group’s 2019 conference. They vary in speed, speed, the report notes, with some suddenly appearing and others gradually becoming more important over several years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2019, I’ve worked with students in the metro Detroit area to advocate for sanctuary schools through an organization called MIStudentsDream. In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city.

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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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The Thinking Stick

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Jess was awarded the Research Society on Alcohol’s Media Award for “outstanding journalistic efforts of writers who cover empirical research on alcohol” […] “for her book The Addiction Inoculation and advocacy for the recovery community.” She co-hosts the #AmWriting podcast from her empty nest in Vermont.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. Using open-records requests, U.S.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 161

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is paying off: Over a five-year span ending in 2019, the number of students reading at grade level in the district grew at a rate that outpaced the state as a whole. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.

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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. Provide families with guidance on rights, accommodations, self-advocacy, and navigating potential obstacles.

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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. The junior high had 1,200 student discipline referrals during the 2019-2020 school year, Cole-Ochoa says, which was cut short that March due to COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. These relationships have been instrumental in sustaining my advocacy efforts; by engaging in these efforts, I strive to create an educational landscape where every student and educator feels valued and respected.

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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. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

million students, are single mothers, according to a 2019 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The Pregnant and Parenting Students Initiative at California State University at Long Beach provides advocacy and Title IX assistance as well as child-friendly study spaces and lactation rooms. undergraduate students, or 1.7

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

A 2019 Department of Education report found evidence that English learners suffered from these divides before the pandemic; the crisis has only made them more consequential. 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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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 145

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

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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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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