Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

What began in Pittsburgh in 2016 has now expanded to new regions across the country, through a partnership with Remake Learning, PBS Kids, and Digital Promise. Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library.

Middle School 140

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. In 2016, U.S. Parents of young children are worried. Related: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions. Positive attitudes about reading fell too.

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Library Elementary School Research History 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

A closet in the hallway has been transformed into a makeshift library. In-patient mental health hospitalizations for young people rose by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022. For the duration of class, the young patients have only one responsibility: They’re there to learn.

Psychology 132

Psychology Library Government Teaching 132

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The college has set aside “family-friendly” spaces in libraries and lounges and holds events for parents with kids, including movie nights and barbecues. The only time she could study was late at night [in the library], but the library said no.” million people , are parents, the Urban Institute estimates.

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Library Advocacy Tutoring Research 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. In Mississippi, the number of black freshmen declined by more than 100 students and 6 percentage points between 2010 and 2016. The 60-year-old Middleton Library has suffered water damage from a leak.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Little to nothing.

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Library Economics Tradition History 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. For example, the pandemic strengthened relationships between schools and libraries, which had to partner in order to provide students with devices and hotspots, or to enhance instruction when schools were closed, she says.

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EdTech Library Professional Development Educational Technology 133

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. That school, its students say, lost nearly $86 million in interest-rate swaps through 2016. The institute is a liberal think tank associated with the Franklin D.

Library 105

Library Sociology Economics Museum 105

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

By 2016, almost 70 percent of Edmondson’s students received a free or reduced-price lunch and came from low-income families; the school was eligible to receive Title 1 funds from the federal government. Nearly 100 people attended the first gathering in the spring of 2016, attendance that has remained steady every year since.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2024

Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates.

Government 126

Government Library Research Education 126

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

In 2016, 47 percent of Americans held a certificate or better, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. In Indiana, 10,000 students have received a new “adult student” grant since the launch of its You Can.Go.Back campaign in early 2016. Then there are the barriers colleges put up.

Library 95

Library High School Economics Tradition 95

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In some cases, that might mean partnering with libraries and other facilities to teach classes. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. And they’re not the first MIT professors to dream up new types of universities.

Sociology 145

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Another Fuse fellow, Lisa Leaheey, an English teacher at North Providence High School, was part of the third cohort of the fellowship, which ran from 2016-18. Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure. Leaheey began informally offering help to teachers in her school when the pandemic hit.

Pedagogy 141

Pedagogy High School Library Public School 141

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I could find only one large, well-designed study , published in 2016, that tested how much kids actually learn in voluntary summer school programs. I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. It was targeted at 3,000 low-income children in five cities in 2013.

Research 145

Research Middle School Library Elementary School 145

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In 2016, I started encouraging my students to stand on their chairs when they were addressing the class. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. For me, movement matters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

million in 2016, more than the university’s annual operating budget. Southern Virginia University was cleared to borrow nearly $23 million for a new academic center, student housing, a dining facility, the renovation of its library and refinancing of other debt. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

Economics 143

Economics Library Government Museum 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

A 2016 survey of rising seniors and their parents by the firm found that half of respondents said they would never consider a school with high tuition. By 2016, there were 316 schools where no incoming freshman paid the sticker price. The $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened in 2011. Choose as many as you like.

Economics 102

Economics Library Education Humanities 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Beyond the struggles all families are facing with remote learning, the Almadani family is dealing with additional stress: They fled Syria as refugees, and resettled in Chicago in 2016. They, like many refugee families in the U.S., face a litany of additional obstacles to remote learning, including language barriers, access to technology.

Library 123

Library Elementary School Tradition Public School 123

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2016, Facebook reached out to Grand Circus with a big goal of providing digital literacy training for 3,000 Michiganders in two years. We hope to expand these through a local partnership with libraries and breweries (Beer & Code!). How did Grand Circus become involved with the Facebook Community Boost partnership?

Economics 110

Economics Library Educational Technology Government 110

Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion (2016) by Shelley Moore. Honor multiple perspectives in your classroom. As a society, we have a tendency to only want to hear from those who agree with us.

Social Justice 103

Social Justice Library Professional Development Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2018

During the 2016-17 school year, the state served just 11 percent of 3-year-olds and 37 percent of 4-year-olds in state-funded pre-K. In Fresno, the Helm Home Play & Learn Center supports families by providing a book and toy library, workshops for parents and caregivers and playgroups.

Library 90

Library Professional Development Teaching Research 90

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

Georgia State University, which pioneered the use of these chatbots, says its version, named Pounce, has delivered hundreds of thousands of answers to questions from potential students since it launched in 2016 and reduced “summer melt” — the incidence of students enrolling in the spring but failing to show up in the fall — by 20 percent.

Teaching 145

Teaching Education Humanities Tutoring 145

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber.

Geography 52

Geography Teaching Pedagogy Library 52

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

Designers tried to borrow tropes from video games, and in the demo, Ed enthusiastically says, “Alberto, you met your goal today,” and points to even more resources he could go to, including links to “Read a book,” “Get tutoring,” or “Find a library near me.”

EdTech 136

EdTech Humanities K-12 Tutoring 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

K-12 78

K-12 Government EdTech Economics 78

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In 2016, I posted this incredible video about a teacher, Stephanie MacArthur, who did an activity with her students called the Compliments Project , where every student took a turn sitting at the front of her classroom while their peers wrote compliments on the board behind them. Come back for more.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Library Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Often families are drawn to friends, family or neighbor providers who share their language, race or culture; almost a third of Black children under age 6 and a quarter of Hispanic children in that age group are in regular care with a relative, according to 2016 data. About a fifth of white children under age 6 are in a relative’s care.

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Library Professional Development Cultures Education 117

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And when they turn to each other for help, it’s most often for babysitting, so they can sneak in a few hours at the library. A Tufts University report found that between the 2012 and 2016 elections, voting turnout increased by 5.5 Bennett, 31, is in her final semester at Misericordia University, in Dallas, Pennsylvania, near Scranton.

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Education Civics Civic Engagement Psychology 120

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

school and library to the Internet. However, as technology has advanced and adoption has increased, many of these connected schools and libraries no longer have adequate bandwidth to support demand. In modernizing E-rate, it is now more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their Internet connection speeds.

Library 63

Library Professional Development Middle School Government 63

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

This observation process, which will be carried out across the state in toddler and pre-K classrooms between September 2016 and May 2017 – and roughly 1,000 times in New Orleans alone – is Louisiana’s new way to measure the quality of early childhood programs. He set his iPhone timer for 20 minutes and started writing furiously.

Library 110

Library Private School Professional Development Humanities 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

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Library Museum Lesson Plan Government 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The following school year, 2015-2016, the district’s overall score jumped to 61 percent, and the low-income Hispanic student group also rose by 10 percentage points to 41 percent. During whisper reading time in Iturralde’s class, 7-year-old Nicholas Villagomez reminisced excitedly about the last time he visited his school’s library.

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