Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. In fact, according to U.S.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). Related: Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Deering High School graduation at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. percent of students in the class of 2015 graduated, compared with 82.3 Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images. This story was originally published by the Education Writers Association and reprinted with permission.

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MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It They need it so bad.”.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

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JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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JULY 4, 2018

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. While the number of students has been rising, however, so has the proportion who begin as full-time freshmen but fail to come back for a second year.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The education department defends allocating the funds to the 13 schools, saying that they incur more costs by exceeding the academic requirements of traditional high schools. And sometimes they need extra funds to go above and beyond.”. Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. Yet their success matters: Today in the U.S.,

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JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It was shut down again a year later in 2015 when a surprise inspection of Manu-Lee’s home found her with 14 children in her care, eight of them infants — four times the legal number of infants for a home-based provider. Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. But by that point, Thorne had also started helping out with the football team as a coach.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. A traditional journalist’s capacity to speak freely is a liberty professional educators should enjoy, but seldom do.

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JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Her proposal throttles the expansion of charter schools and seeks to impose on them the same accountability and transparency requirements as traditional public schools.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fueling the reforms and the funding behind them are a projected shortage of workers with the necessary degrees to fill the jobs of the future, a public backlash in response to budget cuts made during the recession and a concern that the state had been abandoning its long tradition of high-quality, low-cost education.

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APRIL 21, 2017

That’s in spite of extra challenges confronting student veterans, who are usually older than traditional-aged students and more likely to be juggling college with families, jobs and service-related disabilities, and who often face significantly more red tape. Things do not appear to be improving.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

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MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia program caught the attention of the Department of Justice, which launched an investigation that lasted several years, and resulted in a 21-page letter of findings in July, 2015, and a lawsuit in August, 2016. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. Their imbalance rating is roughly four times that of traditional public schools.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Part of the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in 2015, it requires states – many for the first time this year – to reveal publicly how much money each school gets per student. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. And on and on. spends less.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He’s the president of Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan advocacy group of academics working to counteract what it sees as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses, especially when it comes to political diversity. I recently sat down with John Tomasi. But they invited him anyway. That kind of thing had happened before.

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