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percent wage increase for educators. Barthol entered the field in 2016, when she was earning about $11 an hour. Now a lead teacher with a bachelor’s degree, and with help from the District of Columbia’s targeted compensation program for early childhood educators, she is making the equivalent of about $36 an hour. “I

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Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

World Religions 121

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

It still takes a very big human lift by the teacher to help them access entry points [different ways to engage with material]. It requires a lot more human involvement.”. That critical piece — teacher training — lags far behind according to the 2016 National Education Technology Plan.

Tradition 84

Tradition Educational Technology Professional Development Humanities 84

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MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

Education 122

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In 2016, Wood and other Black mothers were looking for a place to voice their rage and sadness over police killings, including of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. And so the milestones provide a space for them to grow, a space for them to be seen as human, as validated,” she says.

Education 129

Education K-12 Public School Private School 129

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

Charter School 106

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MARCH 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. And there are increasing reports from adolescents of anxiety, stress and mental health challenges.

Elementary School 123

Elementary School High School Community Engagement Humanities 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. 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. The human element.

Library 111

Library Humanities Tutoring High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

million donation from H-E-B in 2016. Leave this field empty if you're human: Of the nine teachers hired to launch CAST Tech, seven are master teachers, and half hold master’s degrees in educational technology. Gifts to CAST schools since 2015 have totaled $10 million, including a $3.6 Mississippi Learning.

Economics 109

Economics High School Humanities Educational Technology 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Almost unheard of five years ago, collegiate recovery programs are multiplying amid an opioid epidemic that claimed the lives of 4,110 Americans under 25 in 2016, the last year for which the figure is available. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Social Justice 98

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In 2016, XQ Institute spent more millions on a public awareness campaign to promote its ideas about reforming education, papering its branding on buses and bus stops. Building Partnerships XQ Institute launched with a bang. Students will have more opportunities to travel internationally.

High School 118

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So he’s been trying to spread awareness about what he says is the student perspective on the bill, that it will decrease education funding for public schools. After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says. It was an “almost selfish thought,” they add.

Civics 124

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Disaggregating People of Color As a Black researcher, educator, and professional committed to intersectional racial justice, I observe that learning about the humanness of people with whom I research puts much of the racial division in context of a broader history of Eurocentrism and imperialism. iii] Lee, Erika, 2016.

Heritage 102

Heritage Education K-12 American History 102

ED Surge

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Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools. In 2020, only 10 percent of Kenyan teachers were using the more than one million laptops distributed through a Digital Literacy Program between 2016 and 2018.

EdTech 121

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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. Stay current on higher ed Hechinger’s free biweekly newsletter offers insightful coverage of the state of higher education today.

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