The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past.

Social Studies 99

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 99

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. How do you hope this film is used in an education setting? So it just challenged me to do more work.

Humanities 97

Humanities Advocacy Cultures High School 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

According to one study , more than 635,000 students under 18 took community college classes in 2015, an increase of 122 percent from 2001. Ninety-four percent of them do so, spending a median of $297, according to a Department of Education survey. Participation in Advanced Placement classes has risen, too: 2.7 million in 2006.

High School 76

High School Professional Development Critical Thinking Teaching 76

The Hechinger Report

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.

Charter School 84

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 84

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

A report in 2015 found that level four apprenticeship. A university is also the best place to acquire social and cultural capital. And that social and cultural capital you accumulate at university can be exchanged for economic capital via social networks, skills, values and behaviors that point to high-paying jobs.

Cultures 98

Cultures EdTech Economics Critical Thinking 98

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Read a full recap of our fall 2015 League of Innovative Schools meeting. Visitors also stopped by CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center , where graduate students work with schools to develop educational games that complement real-world learning environments.

Museum 48

Museum Library Middle School Leadership 48

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Whether it’s used for homework-assignment web searches, streamed video tutorials, educational apps or collaborative multimedia projects, fast internet at home is rapidly turning into a necessity for America’s students. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

Library 104

Library Middle School High School Government 104

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And so I had done my first photography book , which came out in 2015 — just a portrait of an abandoned college campus. Their collaboration, their work together, their friendship is a model for how we as individuals can make a difference in our culture. They are reaching across divides of race.

Civics 93

Civics Education American History History 93

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

K-12 144

K-12 Civics High School Project-Based Learning 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

New Jersey’s legislature passed a law in 2015 requiring most public colleges to have recovery housing. There’s not a lot of data on addiction among college students, and what little there is suggests that, contrary to depictions in popular culture, they abuse drugs at lower rates than their peers who aren’t enrolled.

Social Justice 99

Social Justice Cultures High School Educational Technology 99

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

They were taking on thousands of dollars in student loans to pay for their college educations, but they were far less likely to get a degree than their wealthier peers. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 Students aren’t aware,” Jones said.

Library 110

Library Humanities Tutoring High School 110

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth.

High School 117

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 117

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. What Can Education Leaders Do? who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.,

Heritage 101

Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Equity in education is more important than ever. Related: How will the presidential election results influence education technology in schools? That’s why it’s critical that we strive for an education system that supports all students, regardless of where they live, or where they come from.

Education 91

Education Economics Educational Technology Professional Development 91

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.

K-12 135

K-12 Education Public School History 135