Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Franklin West Supervisory Union will add the district’s first full-time CS teacher to work directly with K-8 students. Baltimore County Public Schools will begin offering a full K-5 CS immersion program in two magnet schools with Code to the Future. Increasing their computer science capacity through teachers.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

In a 2020 study on teacher compensation, Stanford University researcher Erik Hanushek found that entry salaries for teachers in 2016 had not changed, in real dollars, since 2000; average salaries for all teachers actually declined slightly over that period. Most K-12 teachers are still getting paychecks throughout the shutdown.

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JUNE 18, 2020

In 2016, the company reached a $168.5 Even though K12 sees opportunity within the coronavirus school closures, Jeffrey Silber, managing director at BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t expect a massive increase in the number of K-12 students taking virtual courses. Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Standardized testing is a common feature in K-12 schooling in the United States, with federal legislation requiring since 2002 that states test virtually all children in grades 3-8 in mathematics and English language arts. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Wouldn’t you want to know what parents are protesting and why?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The program was first announced in 2016, and the launch is expected this summer—though it was delayed early this year because of a lack of critical workers. Nowhere will we see more educational impact from broadband expansion than in K-12 in those areas, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The number of Chinese students on F-1 visas in public K-12 rose from six students in 2006 to 1,008 students in 2016, according to the Student Exchange Visitor Program, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. During that same time period, the number of F-1 visas for Taiwanese students at private schools dropped slightly.)

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Digital Promise

JUNE 21, 2017

During the 2016 National Week of Making, as a part of President Obama’s Nation of Makers initiative, Digital Promise and Maker Ed announced the Maker Promise. A commitment made by school leaders, in-school and out-of-school educators, and community advocates to bringing quality making experiences to all students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

By putting a question about allowing more Massachusetts charter schools on the statewide ballot in 2016 , advocates played into the hands of teachers’ unions and other opponents of charters that could turn out an endless supply of anti-charter ground troops to make phone calls and knock on doors.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Not only were preschoolers in public programs being expelled at more than three times the rate of older K-12 students, but discipline was starkly divided by race: Black preschoolers were twice as likely to be kicked out as white children. In child care programs, the numbers were even higher. “One

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Across the country, 3,700 K-12 schools and 900 universities have implemented ALICE Training since the early 2000s. As of 2016, almost 95 percent of students in U.S. The “C” in this acronym, for “counter,” is controversial, because it means training people to fight back if a person with a gun enters their classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

The JFF report has started conversations in K-12, higher education and the workforce about promoting change at the local level, said Brent Parton, the principal deputy assistant secretary and current acting assistant secretary of the U.S. It’s forcing K-12 to think differently in a way out of necessity,” Parton said. “In

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

She increased her own wages from $8 an hour to $12, which she said gave her enough extra money to buy her own kids clothes and pay monthly bills on time. But then ARPA funding expired last year, and she was forced to make hard decisions just to maintain her new hourly rate of $12. She made repairs and improvements to the building.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In 2016, not even one graduate was qualified to teach computer science, according to a new report on the state of computer science education in America. In 2015, for example, only 12 percent of the state’s 155 computer science graduates were female. In April, the state adopted K-12 computer science standards.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. This global phenomenon emerged about 12 years ago, but is playing out differently worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For her son’s 12-month appointment, Eakins took Corbin to a different pediatrician, who immediately agreed with her concerns. But comprehensive programs like the one in Dysart are a rarity, especially in a state where public pre-K is not yet widely available for all students, let alone children with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Related: OPINION: We must address Covid-related grief and other pandemic impacts on children The National Speak Up Project also showed that, in 2016, before the pandemic, 81 percent of students said that doing well in school was important to them. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Researchers at the Modern Language Association recently found that colleges lost 651 foreign language programs from 2013 to 2016 – dramatically more than the one foreign language programs that higher education lost between 2009 and 2013. have a shortage of qualified foreign language instructors at the K-12 level for the 2016–2017 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Traditional pensions differ from 401(k)-style retirement plans because they guarantee retirees a set amount of money annually for life. As of 2016, state pension systems were, on average, just 66 percent funded, according to an analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts. spends less. By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist turned education philanthropist, is convinced the U.S. education system needs to change. But he doesn’t want to force it.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Schools were closed on November 12 for a “ day of reflection and preparation.” The pandemic, in and of itself, has created this collective trauma with all of us Dr. Michael Enenbach Burbio, a company that tracks school schedules, has found 65 district-wide mental health closures that impacted 2,535 K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K. Metabolic constraint imposes tradeoff between body size and number of brain neurons in human evolution. Basic Books.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. . Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

All of the participating teachers were certified in early education, held bachelor’s degrees and were paid on par with K-12 teachers. The study ran for two years, from 2014 to 2016, and covered a total of 840 children. Each classroom also had an assistant. There were a maximum of 20 students per classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2024

In contrast, from 2016 to 2022, the percentage of test-takers from wealthy households grew slightly or stayed about the same. Related: OPINION: The charade of ‘test-optional’ admissions The SAT and ACT measure a student’s mastery of fundamentals, including the English and math skills they should be learning in K-12.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Nationally, Community College Baccalaureate Association data indicates just six other states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada and New Mexico — offer baccalaureate degrees related to K-12 education. In all, 51 community college-based K-12 teaching programs have launched across the country since the early 2000s.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Buttrey, K. Kentucky Teacher Education Journal , 8 (1), 1–12. A review of Nearpod – an interactive tool for student engagement. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. W., & Yue, W. Tang & L.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Josiah Taft, 4, played at the water table in his public preschool classroom at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn in 2016. That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Photo: Jamie Martines for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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