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. Data suggests that this trend will continue, particularly in comparison to non-STEM positions.

STEM 107

STEM Industry Data Survey 107

The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Now let’s compare the table above with the North Carolina Digital Learning Plan ’s Digital Age Education Model comparison. Advocacy, choice, and voice should occur in the classroom as well as in any learning environment. Explore it in depth in their blog post, “ Learner Agency, Technology and Emotional Intelligence.

Education 72

Education Comparison Advocacy Professional Learning 72

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? District Profiles.

Study 99

Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Most districts didn’t budget in a way that allowed comparisons of school-level spending. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. In California, outside researchers tracked the state dollars to the school level and gave advocacy groups a smoking gun.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

My favorite comparison I see a lot is about asking a fish to climb a tree. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., I’m not asking Matthew to climb a tree.

Dropout 87

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

” At La Verne, by comparison, he said in a cafe in the student union, “There was one person in charge of everything , and she put me in touch with the people I needed to talk to by the next day.” ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters. “Students beat themselves up about this.

Report 110

Report STEM Course Comparison 110

Fractus Learning

JANUARY 19, 2017

This is the name of a public blog I administrate and is something that I use for early childhood educator professionalism advocacy. My work with Fractus Learning has opened a whole other avenue of communication and advocacy. Blogging helps us do that. Early Education Plantation. From Then to Now. The Benefits.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Training Conference Comparison 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail The educational options available to suspended students often pale in comparison to what they would get in the classroom. Martinez scrambled to finish the missing assignments and ended up barely avoiding failing. That’s not what happens.”

Report 112

Report Survey Data Elementary 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Most administrators will want to review a syllabus from your former school for comparison.

Course 84

Course Social Media Study Comparison 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. That’s not the only reason to suspect an undercount.

Analysis 87

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”. Census data.

Elementary 67

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 67

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 22, 2016

Three weeks ago, the federation announced that it will collaborate with Amazon on “improvements to Amazon’s education content, platforms, and applications,” adding that representatives from online retailer and the Baltimore-based advocacy organization will meet on an ongoing basis “to review progress and exchange ideas.”

Comparison 40

Comparison Advocacy Accessibility Industry 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” That can’t comparison shop. ” Stephen answers that his goal is access for all, and takes me to task for wanting more. They have only the one choice before them.

OER 60

OER LMS Course Secondary 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. There’s tremendous poverty in all four cities, but there’s tremendous wealth in New York City.

Common Core 40

Common Core Elementary Examples Comparison 40

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In comparison, after this instructional walk, I had a desire to get back into this classroom soon, to see where this unit of study would go. Likely I would have some checklist or rubric to go off of as I watched for best practices in action.

Comparison 35

Comparison Strategy Groups Classroom 35

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

They say it’s easier to learn the odds of winning Powerball than of graduating, or to comparison-shop for a mattress than to compare the actual cost of tuition, fees, and other expenses among schools. Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I

Survey 40

Survey Policies Report Data 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. The average state, by comparison, spends half its welfare dollars on those goals, according to the LBP report.

Policies 40

Policies Report Comparison Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

A new Gallup poll, commissioned by two advocacy organizations, finds that fraternity and sorority members were more likely to say they formed relationships with mentors and professors, were extremely active in extracurricular activities and worked in internships where they could apply what they were learning in their college classes.

Advocacy 125

Advocacy Survey Analysis Data 125

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

However, at each level—middle school, high school, and college—these variations paled in comparison to a stunning and dismaying consistency. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Credit: Dawn Larson. Leslie Boggs, president of the National PTA, blamed much of that evolution on the often-exhausting fights over K-12 funding within school districts and states.

Elementary 145

Elementary Education Report Groups 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

But Robbins, the University of Connecticut professor, takes a different view: It’s a matter of convenience for school districts that don’t want to put in the time and effort to seek out comparisons. Some states require that school districts go through a competitive bidding process under at least some circumstances when issuing a bond.

Report 86

Report Industry Company Conference 86

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

By comparison, Medina said he met with the overworked college counselor in his school only twice in four years. This is largely because wealthier families know to apply for private scholarships or their kids go to private or suburban high schools that have savvy college counselors. It died without being taken up in the Senate.

Policies 84

Policies Report Study Comparison 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America. At community colleges with 100 or more GI Bill recipients, even the top performers managed to graduate only one in five, federal records show. .

Report 79

Report Data Study Comparison 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Dan Quinn, research director and press secretary of the Texas Freedom Network, an advocacy group that was founded to challenge the influence of the religious right in state politics, calls the standards a “muddled mess when it comes to climate science.” It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

Pearson 137

Pearson Guidelines Company Study 137

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. We’re lucky to have one candidate who has a track record like that,” said Kris Perry, head of the First Five Years Fund, an advocacy group that advises both Republican and Democratic politicians on early childhood policy.

Policies 70

Policies Advocacy Study E-rate 70

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In comparison, young American voter registration is much lower and participation spiked in 2018 — when 28 percent voted , a record percentage — though it’s dipped since then. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

Education 186

Education Khan Academy Policies Social Media 186

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

For comparison, 18 percent of the general U.S. In a letter to Congress dated September 6, 2017, a group of 64 advocacy organizations estimated that a fifth of the 800,000 DACA recipients (or 160,000 if you do the math) are currently enrolled in college. population under age 33 had a bachelor’s degree in 2014.).

Comparison 91

Comparison Policies Advocacy Data 91

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

By comparison, “the Indian economy and the framework which exists for me, being a citizen of India, was pretty good.”. Since returning home in 2017, Meadem has launched three startups that employ about 40 people and plans to add more workers in the months ahead. When you’re looking at the U.S.

Education 135

Education Industry Software Company 135

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy has thoughts on the pushback , making the comparison between Zuckerberg ’s corporate and philanthropic efforts and inBloom. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. .”

Lenovo 52

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By comparison, there are more than 18 million Americans in college. They are in short supply Apprenticeship in America remains massively under-scaled , the advocacy group Apprenticeships for America pronounced in September. That isnt proving true. Credit: Getty Images But thats not even half of 1 percent of the U.S.

Trends 101

Trends Training Company Industry 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost.

Report 87

Report Outcomes Company Training 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

By comparison, only around 30 percent of BIE schools were doing the same. It is clear that our education system will conclude the 2019-2020 school year without the emergency relief intended by Congress during the Covid-19 pandemic,” the tribal advocacy groups wrote in another letter , dated June 12.

Report 134

Report Elementary Online Learning Groups 134

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. This fall, the EducationSuperHighway released a price comparison tool so that districts could see neighbors’ broadband costs and ideally leverage that information to get a better deal.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

By comparison, just 19% of Democrats believe that colleges’ and universities’ effect is negative.). Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. What are the implications – on knowledge-making and knowledge dissemination – of that divide? Naturally.

Technology 73

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes – think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. Wikileaks – perhaps in cooperation with Russia – releasing stolen emails from the DNC and from Clinton’s campaign.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40