The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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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 She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate. Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Asiyah Jones, 6, works on her laptop at her home in Philadelphia. I don’t want to be in middle school and have my whole life be on a laptop. …

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders. Not anymore.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I Related: Just 3% of scientists and engineers are Black or Latina women. Here’s what teachers are doing about it. I find the process more accessible. Credit: Seth Bramble.

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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. He stooped beside her and angled his laptop for a selfie.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

Over the past 30 years, he has held leadership positions at the high, middle, and elementary levels in Salem City Schools and is currently in his 15th school year as Division Superintendent. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

India’s education system has long lagged behind others, despite the country’s enactment of the 2009 Right to Education (RTE) ACT , which was supposed to give every child in the country the right to a full-time elementary education “of satisfactory and equitable quality.”. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Texas schools are facing two challenges that Commissioner Morath focused on: .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

He’s had to buy personal protective equipment for staff and laptops for around 28,000 teenagers. That sounds like a lot of money, but if you think about buying a laptop for nearly 30,000 teenagers … that, in and of itself, is your entire stimulus money,” he said. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. What works for a high school in a major urban area may not fit the needs of a rural elementary school. on March 18, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Don’t be like me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

This past spring, she followed with interest when the district outfitted several homes with laptops and tablets to complete school work. She also spoke at a virtual gathering of the Poor People’s Campaign, an advocacy group. Buses were parked outside of apartment complexes to provide Wi-Fi for families without reliable internet access.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Should you ban laptops ? Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ? What does the science say?! But, to be fair to journalists, a lot of the time we do get it right. " We do not know our rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

Many school districts hustled to get laptops and other devices to students and shifted learning online, even as educators warned that remote education would exacerbate inequalities. Focusing on that self-advocacy component, that is crucial for that population. The pandemic left other marks too.

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