Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. But they argue that their new business models—subscription options and inclusive access plans—benefit students and colleges and reduce the cost of course materials thanks to economies of scale.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

High school students often have a mix of core subjects, such as math, science, and English, along with electives or advanced placement (AP) courses. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention. Collaborative studying allows you to share resources, discuss challenging topics, and gain different perspectives.

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Study Tools Groups Digital Citizenship 417

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. This has been the core of the open source software advocacy strategy – not appeals to altruism, and certainly not moralizing grandstanding – but a rational, self-interested explanation of why a business would benefit from adopting the open source model. What would higher education do in fall 2021?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia. You come down to a point where you just need a warm body to make sure children are safe. Nancy Sylvester Its so sad, Sylvester says.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S.

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Accessibility Pearson Advocacy Course 210

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

VPS students have access to diverse courses such as coding, Python, robotics, and electronic applications, to name a few. The Python courses have supported students transitioning into International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) pathways and exist at all three high schools. Community Engagement and Advocacy.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Any teacher knows a child’s educational experience is much richer and broader than the courses they take. Their education is one of the greatest gifts you can give them–and so, too, is your advocacy. Approaches we use, like Universal Design for Learning , embrace, rather than punish, diversity in learning styles and personality.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That’s according to the 2021 State of Computer Science report jointly released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Students who attend those schools don’t even have the opportunity to take a course if they wanted to.”

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Accessibility Advocacy Policies Course 201

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These high-achieving students would likely have graduated college in much higher numbers without any dual enrollment courses. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. Cost is another barrier.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Recently, though, the city has changed course amid parental pressure. But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. California is trying to solve a seemingly intractable problem.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Ongoing Training Of course, generative AI should be included in professional development, but the panelists suggested a further step. In addition to courses on how to use AI, they advocated for hands-on practice with real-world situations that would happen in the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. But this new study notes that even at schools where coding courses are offered, participation can be unequal.

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Accessibility Advocacy Report Elementary 210

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Photo: Amadou Diallo, for The Hechinger Report. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. You could: Teach a unit or course. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Code.org has created a great compilation of resources for how students can continue learning. Some favorites (all free!) You want to do even more. Advocate to bring CS to your school.

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

Of course, issues of privacy and security are related, but not the same. In general, privacy-related matters address what information can be collected by schools (whether via technology or not), for what purposes, with whom it can be shared, and under what circumstances.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

NAGC’s mission is to support those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research. National Association for Gifted Children.

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STEM Advocacy Robotics Strategy 276

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Absenteeism matters, of course, because students don’t learn as much when they’re not in school. 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. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Accelerated Study in Associate Programs intervention, developed by the City University of New York, has boosted completion rates by providing students with intensive advising, tutoring, tuition support, money for transportation, free textbooks and special course schedules.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Connecting secure datasets such as absenteeism and homework completion with formative mathematics assessments, for example, allows educators to consider why issues may be happening, decide on a course of supportive action, and then use data to determine effectiveness. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

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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. Failure to achieve those rates could have led to price increases on course materials. That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. (Michael Fullan, 2002, p. As for this, common characteristics and criteria associated with the not-so-common learner include the following: English Learners (ELs).

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Advocacy 272

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. Most MOOCs require users to sign up for them before they can even see what the course consists of.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2018

And, of course, please buy the classrooms science kits! Student Advocacy If your preschoolers will be coming from under-served populations, they will benefit from learning self-advocacy (in fact, we all can). Screenless Coding Montessori is anti-screen for young children. However, these children need computer science.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

It is driven by choice, voice, and advocacy. Advocacy, choice, and voice should occur in the classroom as well as the school setting. Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture. What would you add?

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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. Of course, our work is not done yet. 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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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. Another part of 51Talk I enjoy is the depth and knowledge of their training courses for their instructors. As I continue to advance, I have been provided the opportunity to take online training courses with other teachers at 51Talk.

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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

JUNE 18, 2020

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. Jennifer is in sixth grade. She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet. Maria is also in the sixth grade. As a result, white students take AP Computer Science in high school at nearly 2.4

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They’ve made 12 modules, four syllabi for upper-level bachelor’s or master’s courses, and several handbooks for guiding faculty and creating internship programs. One of the initial steps was developing course materials for professors to use and adapt without having to start from scratch. They’re not stopping at resources, though.

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Policies Study Handbook Advocacy 164

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Without conceptualizing an explanatory mechanism—a reason to believe a difference might exist—they simply compare the outcomes of students whose required course materials are openly licensed with those whose materials are traditionally copyrighted.

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OER Outcomes Comparison Study 197

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

It takes courage for anyone to question the dominant narrative…There is resistance, of course, because so many people have staked their entire academic reputations on inclusion and don’t have the intellectual humility to concede that they might have been wrong. She emailed me. I get stressed out wherever we put kids.

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Education Social Media Outcomes Study 122

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2016

When students are underprepared for preliminary courses required for their degrees, they’re typically placed in remedial classes. But a better solution for helping them catch up is to enroll them in co-requisite college courses and provide additional support. Traditional remedial courses can be discouraging.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 23, 2024

Of course, I hadn’t taken into account that people would call into the show because a gentleman called in to proclaim the virtues of rudimentary math. Of course, some advocates used words like “state overreach” and other nonsense, but to this day, many of the renamed standards still look CCSS-lite.

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Common Core Policies Advocacy STEM 177

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. The courses can also provide a confidence boost to young adults uncertain whether college is for them. Related: High schoolers can take dual-enrollment courses for college credit.

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Advocacy Policies Education Course 117

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. As the movement grew and more people began advocating for the adoption of OER in place of traditionally copyrighted materials in classes, some advocates chose to make cost the primary focus of their advocacy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices.

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Khan Academy Adobe Advocacy Assessment 203