The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Advocacy 114

Advocacy Educational Technology Elementary School Professional Development 114

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Louisiana legislature established an Early Childhood Education Fund in 2017 with the goal of incentivizing localities to raise funding to expand child care access by matching local funds at a 2:1 rate. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment. For every $2 a parish generates, the state adds $1.

K-12 63

K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 63

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities.

Professional Development 140

Professional Development Advocacy Tradition Leadership 140

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At

Advocacy 138

Advocacy High School Political Science Research 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. At Rhodes, educators see a lot of good in the program.

Junior High 132

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 132

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

High School 122

High School K-12 Public School Library 122

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

Education 74

Education Advocacy Economics Political Science 74