A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the days following December 14th, 2012 school administrators, educators, law enforcement personnel and parents have undertaken the most comprehensive look at school safety since the Columbine massacre of 1999. The following is a guest post by Erik Endress.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Two of my Social Studies teachers were recently invited to Washington DC on October 4, 2012, to deliver a model lesson that illustrated the effective use of technology. 21st Century Teaching educational technology New Milford High School Nicolette Perna Rebecca Millan'

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

As access to technology becomes increasingly commonplace in schools, discrepancies continue to emerge concerning not whether technology is being used, but how it is being used. Indicators of impactful technology use. West Virginia Department of Education. Review of Educational Research, 88(4), 547-588. References.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 13, 2015

But every year I wish more of the keynotes were actually helpful to our technology integration and implementation efforts. It is an educational technology conference, after all, and we have lots of needs in the actual topic area of the conference. Related Posts.

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APRIL 13, 2023

An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist.

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APRIL 2, 2024

It was an unmitigated disaster in Maine,” Eyler admits, referring to a 2012 state law mandated that schools move to “proficiency-based” grading (a flavor of standards-based grading). But the track record for such reforms is mixed. “It

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JUNE 10, 2019

Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

The funding requested by schools reached nearly $5 billion in 2012 and 2013, according to District Administration magazine. That cap has remained unchanged since the program started in 1996, despite rapidly increasing demand from schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

In summer 2012, my life changed. I was a 20-year-old college student with a bright future. I was fearless and ready to take the world by storm. All of my hopes and dreams came crashing down when I began experiencing what felt like a black curtain within my field of vision in my right eye.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Expect changes at this year’s ASU+GSV Summit , an annual education technology gathering with a reputation as a bustling conference for high-rolling financiers and hoodie-wearing start-up founders. An influx of public school educators at this year’s conference could help change the tone. billion since 2012.

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ED Surge

MARCH 11, 2024

Gen Zers, born between 1997 and 2012, spend a lot of time online, consuming and creating digital content. Ninety-two percent check social media daily.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Can education technology help put the brakes on summer backsliding? The Bedtime Math app , launched in 2012, spurs family math talk by sending parents daily word problems prefaced by a paragraph of story – about everything from subway-riding dogs to galactic travel – illustrated with a photo or video.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Teacher satisfaction is at its lowest point in almost four decades, according to annual teacher surveys conducted by MetLife from 1984-2012. Aion and Bowyer’s experiences echo trends researchers are seeing around the country.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in 2012, the group started working with high schools, coaching students to turn their stories into polished orations. For decades, a nonprofit group called The Moth has produced workshops, events and a popular radio show where people tell transformative stories from their lives.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

When I started in 2012, making just over $34,000, there was a pay freeze for teachers who were in their first five years on the job. But this toughest year came on the back of many tough years, forcing me to see that I might actually have had enough. In 2011, my district extended the school day by 45 minutes without raising teacher pay.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Finally, there are still many remote areas of the country where no EBS licenses have ever been issued.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

The assignment he revised was from a course he taught in 2012 about the history of mathematics and cryptography that fulfilled a campus writing requirement. (Bruff may have coined the term “Assignment Makeovers” with his series of blog posts inspired by watching the TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”)

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2011 or 2012, my mom was diagnosed with leukemia. My dad would get home from work in the evening, and I remember having his slippers by his chair, having a cold water bottle by his chair, and caring for him and caring for my mom, when she got sick. It was very hard. My mom couldn't keep the job she had at the time.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The effort in New York, known as direct admission, comes after SUNY has seen an overall enrollment decline of about 21 percent since 2012. It’s an example of the streamlined admissions practices that colleges across the country are using to combat the ongoing problem of low student enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

There were many reasons for this, including the fact that in 2012, Arne Duncan, then the education secretary, began doling out comprehensive waivers from the provisions to states that agreed to adopt other accountability reforms, such as changing how teachers are evaluated. Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

It’s like whomever wrote the report jumped in the DeLorean and set the clock to 2012. We are in a transformational moment in higher education. Business as usual wasn’t working well for a lot of faculty and staff in 2012, and it’s less likely to work in 2022. Before that happens, let me try—once again—to be frank.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Resnick had reason to be optimistic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

We were just borrowing the technological resources from the healthcare side of the business,” said Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB and one of its first employees. By 2012 the conditions were ripe for the predictive analytics industry to take off on campuses around the country. Government had created pressure for accountability.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. The graph is an arresting depiction of how much virtual education has helped save the nation’s colleges and universities from suffering even worse distress. But excluding online students, the present downturn in higher ed enrollment plunged significantly more—to nearly 7.5

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When Trayvon Martin was killed, my students and I watched a 2012 clip of Gerardo Rivera blaming Trayvon for his death simply because he wore a hoodie. Since I began teaching, we have seen countless examples of the same racist and anti-Black violence that claimed Till’s life.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In surveys of 230,000 students in grades three through 12 conducted from 2012 to 2017 by YouthTruth, an education research and consulting nonprofit, only 46 percent of high school respondents felt that what they were learning in class helped them outside of school. Student disengagement is not a totally new problem.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

It was before the Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA for short) in 2012 that gave some immigrants who were brought to the U.S. Second, unbeknownst to them, Aguilar applied as soon as she could when the Department of Homeland Security initiated the DACA program in summer 2012.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

The book won the 2012 Stonewall Book Award and the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. The Antiracist Kid: A Book About Identity, Justice, and Activism by Tiffany Jewell. A Queer History of the United States, a book about LGBTQ+ people in U.S society, by Michael Bronski.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

The institute, which she directed from 2012-2022, has a strong emphasis on public humanities, so she welcomed the arrival of the journal as a forum to talk to other people about it across the world. Nuttall will peer review articles and help recruit other academics in the Global South to be editors, contributors and reviewers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2012, a 20-year-old shooter struck down 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In 2022, an 18-year-old gunman massacred 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Four years before that, a 19-year-old fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. As California attorney general, she criticized the impact of the state’s 1996 ban at its public colleges.

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