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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. It was honestly pretty awesome.”

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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

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. New York in 2022 passed the Green CHIPS Act, which provides tax incentives for companies to expand semiconductor manufacturing there.

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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. Cleveland came into her position under challenging circumstances, including a teacher strike that delayed the start of the school year in August 2022.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

The EvolveMe platform gives teens access to and rewards them for completing high-quality, professional career experimentation activities and building transferable skills they can apply to any job.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

students in July 2022, when the Emergency Connectivity Fund expires – with no concrete plan to extend it. billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. The program received $7.17

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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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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

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. The demand for child and adolescent psychiatrists and behavioral health providers continues to outpace supply, especially for young people already facing inequitable access to care.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Sponsored by ClassLink Uh oh and Oh noin 2022, that was the typical, collective reaction of administrators and educators to using generative AI in the classroom. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

In May, Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, called for increased child care solutions at Child Care Aware of America’s 2022 Symposium in Arlington, Virginia. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2024

According to 2022 data from Common App, about 450,000 applicants that year met the federal definition, meaning that neither parent had a bachelor’s degree, including about 300,000 students whose parents had never attended any college.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Better outcomes for Alaska students start with access to teachers utilizing research-grounded, evidence-based instructional practices in the science of reading,” said Jason Mendenhall, President of State Solutions Division at NWEA. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whether students use STEM skills for better problem-solving or critical thinking in life, or for a future career, it’s important that they have equal access to help propel them forward.”. “We million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 140 countries and territories.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Then she learned about one group’s effort to expand access to high-quality child care here, specifically for families who speak little English, through free training and help navigating state licensing laws. Boosting the quality of Lexington’s child care — not just its accessibility — was crucial, Werth said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report Last year, New Orleans added more than 1,000 child care seats for children from low-income families after voters approved a historic property tax increase in 2022. New Orleans is part of a growing trend of local communities passing ballot measures to expand access to child care.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

million informal caregivers receive the subsidies or related payment, according to a 2022 report from the BUILD Initiative, which provides support to state leaders for early childhood programs. Hunt-Fleming spends whatever hours she can on advocacy work for her colleagues through a program called California Leading from Home.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many disability advocates balked at the findings, published in December 2022, on social media. In some cases, children with disabilities no longer had access to the same resources. To the contrary, for some children, it appears that being taught in a segregated setting is actually beneficial.”.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Access to affordable, high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but a necessity to thrive in the modern world. This $50 million initiative could connect up to 130,000 households to high-speed internet an endeavor that EducationSuperHighway is proud to have helped shape through our technical expertise and advocacy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve gone from serving three school districts 40 years ago to working with 10,000 school districts in 2022. Both teams are deeply focused on helping all children learn and serve millions of K-12 educators and students across the globe.”. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

Related: An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in While engineering is one college discipline in which men continue to outnumber women , Northeastern has since 2022 even been admitting slightly more female than male first-year engineering students.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Labor Day 2022—instead of the usual beginning-of-the-school-year exercises, Los Angeles Unified School District administrators had to deal with a ransomware attack that shut down its computer systems. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

During the 2022–23 school year, just over 40 percent of public schools in low-income areas and those with mostly students of color were fully staffed. Today, in any given classroom, students arrive with varying degrees of knowledge and skill. Sources: Learning Policy Institute & Educators for Excellence.)

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But courseware and related efforts have been shunned by many in the OER community because during the 2010s much of the community changed their focus from ‘improving access to educational opportunity’ to ‘ensuring that course materials are free for students.’ 2022 ; Van Campenhout, et al.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

By serving these families, Gale got access to federal child care subsidies. More than 40 percent of children in West Virginia under age 6 who need child care can’t access it, she explains, pointing to data from Child Care Aware and TEAM for West Virginia Children. ARPA funds allowed Gale to try new teaching activities. More than 2.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

Since 2010, she has partnered with CGCS and worked with specific member districts to ensure English learners have access to the high-quality, rigorous instruction needed to meet college and career readiness standards. “Dr. received the award in 2022. “We Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

With access to programs designed to help them transition beyond high school, more neurodivergent students will have the skills they need to succeed when they get there, Elliot said. But this measure is imperfect: It includes students who have physical disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Louis, in the spring of 2022. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Louis area home on June 10, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2024

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic toppled the country’s long-eroding child care system, policymakers in Washington had a vision for tackling the sector’s most intractable challenges, including access, recruitment, retention and pay. That vision resulted in the pay equity fund, passed by the D.C. Council in 2021. A classroom at Educare DC.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We’ve had families who just needed some layer of support or to continue to access their education, and the online environment provided immediate response to that,” shared Mr. Hatcher. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 His approach, focused on equitable access to books and engaging the community, has left a remarkable mark.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. Dual enrollment is exploding. million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2023

The workforce, which is predominantly made up of women, many of them Black and Latina, often receives little to no compensation and has minimal access to resources to support their work. What difference might it make if these child care providers had access to support networks, training and financial resources?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Our first Library 2.023 mini-conference: " Mental Health and Wellness: Library Workers Thriving in Uncertain Times ," will be held online (and for free) on Tuesday, April 4th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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