Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

percent for students who started in fall 2014, according to a 2020 report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. The national six-year college completion rate was 60.1

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

However, 39 percent of schools reported that lack of access to licensed professionals and mental health funding were major roadblocks to their efforts supporting student mental health. Nearly 90 percent of schools reported increased social and emotional support for students during the 2021-22 academic year. Your mileage is going to vary.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

They were empathetic toward schools in Spring 2020 as educators scrambled to make remote learning happen, she adds. But McKittrick’s analysis of school reopening plans for Fall 2020 revealed little mention of special education programs. Particularly, she points to the ones that asked questions such as, Do you have access to technology?

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key. Whereas the U.S.

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Technology EdTech Education Mobility 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A 2020 report for the U.S. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 In October 2020, a little more than two- thirds of K-12 principals estimated that their students with disabilities would perform somewhat or much lower than they had before the pandemic. A whole-child approach to special education will help accelerate the learning of this unique population.

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Education Advocacy Survey Outcomes 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In response to the Covid-19 crisis, the federal government paused student loan payments, interest and collections in March 2020 and recently extended that pause until May 2022. Michele Streeter is the associate director of Policy and Advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success. Families cannot afford to wait.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. Nearly a year ago now, in my corner of the country—Multnomah County, Ore., which encompasses the city of Portland—something remarkable happened. We did get the balance right.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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Advocacy Chromebook Exercises Groups 211

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. schools had gained high-speed internet access, per the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum connectivity standard of 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per student.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

‘Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. 2019 and 2020 were unconventional years that literally threw the world into disarray,” she says. This was already well known.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Over the past two years, the consortium has created open-access materials intended to make it easy for universities to start offering coursework on the topic of early childhood policy. Most recently, early childhood education won big during the 2020 election , with voters in Colorado and Portland, Ore.,

Policies 164

Policies Study Handbook Advocacy 164

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The organization aims to help students overcome homelessness through education, policy advocacy and practical support to educators. “I But Baltimore City Public Schools recorded only 2,100 homeless students in the fall of 2020, he says, compared to 3,500 in fall 2019. It’s school.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Back in 2020 I was invited to write a very brief piece about how OER research might inform pandemic practice. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER?

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 197

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. This underscores the fact that people who access the Common App at all have a high baseline enrollment rate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Though the concept of medical-legal partnerships has existed since the 1990s, the Yale partnership, launched in November 2020, is the first in the nation focused exclusively on children’s behavioral health. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

No longer would they be compelled to purchase textbooks each year, but they would have freedom to choose digital content and the technological equipment necessary for students to access the digital content. Everything I accessed was an instructional material with content relevant to my course of study. However, when the 2.1%

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Instructional Materials Advocacy Accessibility Resources 92

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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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Advocacy Meeting Policies Course 168

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

New Orleans is part of a growing trend of local communities passing ballot measures to expand access to child care. The number of parents who reported missing work because of child care surged in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak; it has yet to recede to pre-pandemic levels.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It According to a November survey by Afterschool Alliance, the number of students with access to after-school programs had been cut in half since the start of the pandemic.

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Survey Laptops Accessibility Report 142

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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Meeting Training Accessibility Advocacy 145

edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Every two or three years, state and federal laws regarding accessibility in education change. However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. Highlights.

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Accessibility Digital Badges Elementary BYOD 58

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.

Advocacy 140

Advocacy Data Trends Report 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. VANCOUVER, Wash. Public schools identified 1.1

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Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That changed in the summer of 2020. The line separating “secure v insecure, access v exclusion, captive v free” is a modern Mason-Dixon line, argues Kareem Weaver, an Oakland-based educator and the education lead of the city’s NAACP chapter. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post.

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Elementary Training Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. . In some cases, children with disabilities no longer had access to the same resources. Who would argue against it?

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Analysis Education Study Policies 138

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. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Leadership. Dr. Veronica C.

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Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Conference 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 million students were enrolled in after-school programs in 2020 , with millions more seeking access to such programs. Like the child care industry as a whole, after-school programs often operate on tight revenues and low pay.

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Company Elementary Advocacy Report 126

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Already down by 22 percent between 2010 and 2020, or by more than 650,000 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, it has fallen by another 7 percent since then, more recent figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show. We’re going backwards.” We’re not making progress.

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Report Study Accessibility Data 145

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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Advocacy Guidelines Accessibility Tools 165

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media. 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.

Digital Divide 134

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 134

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s leadership and vision for equitable healthcare access have been instrumental in expanding access to healthcare services for students across the district. Cleveland relentlessly advocated for equitable access to Hazel’s mental health services in all district schools rather than limiting services to a small group.

Education 127

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. 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.

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Advocacy Report Survey Libraries 142