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APRIL 8, 2020

Just 62 percent of parents attended parent-teacher conferences in 2019, down from 77 percent in 2017. While 86 percent of parents helped their children with homework in 2017, less than three-quarters did so last year. Despite being a former teacher and a current education-technology executive, I have struggled these past few weeks.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s because education technology companies store a lot of personal student data, even Social Security numbers, on their servers in order to keep track of test scores and grades. He estimates that scammers targeted roughly three dozen districts with this kind of attack.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. Using an app called Hemingway, the Data Quality Campaign, a Washington, D.C.-based appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology. Altogether, nearly 150 teachers — out of 5,000 who were using the free homework site — created more than 40,000 hints for more than 25,000 problems during the three years of this experiment, from 2017 to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Paul Quinn College, a historically black college in Dallas, became the newest work college in 2017, and the only urban one. The retention rate for first-year, full-time students rose from 63 percent before the change to 71 percent in the 2017-2018 year. Now it is expanding. The model clearly works well for Paul Quinn.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Literacy initiative touched all aspects of the school community, especially family education. The 2016-2017 school year began with 100 percent parent participation in an orientation training to support parent understanding of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative. Citations. [1] ” [link]. Accessed 2 Oct. ” [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Previous research has generally shown more promise for education technology in math than in reading. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. That was true for both fourth-grade and eighth-grade students and across school poverty levels. Math scores didn’t deteriorate as much as computer usage increased.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

That’s the premise of a nonprofit called The Bell, started in New York City by 2017 by two former teachers with a journalism background and a belief that one way to improve education is to elevate the voices of students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Jenna Sablan, assistant research professor at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Consuela Robinson, 35, returned to college in 2017 after dropping out more than a decade earlier, working two, sometimes three jobs to make ends meet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Adding tech to the regular budget is simply not possible, according to East Side officials who note that California ranks 41st among states in per-pupil spending when adjusted for the cost of living, according to a 2017 study. Bruce Baker, professor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

For years, educational technology has promised to fill that gap, but that promise has remained largely unfulfilled. Now, as technology continues to evolve, a new era of personalized learning is dawning, fueled by the power of artificial intelligence.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Ian Fairhurst, who integrates educational technology into grades K-6 at Knox Grammar Prep, showed a session participant how to use a VR headset at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia. Students can also explore under the sea through the 2017 Netflix documentary Chasing Coral, which has a VR version available to educators at no cost.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. We’re excited for the opportunity to spread the word of what’s happening – and what’s possible – in education. VR for Good – Can “Cause-Based” VR Save Us? Edtech Efficacy Research #ShowTheEvidence.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Now, with New York Gov. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Both the federal Department of Education and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) also offer information about quality resources on their respective websites. Technology is an accelerator,” said Richard Culatta, a former federal education technology official who now heads ISTE. “If

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. The trend lines compare the race/ethnicity proportions estimated in 2005-2009 to the estimates for 2017-2021. Census Bureau. Source: American Community Survey.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

How a Small Town in a Red State Rallied Around Universal Preschool By Emily Tate Sullivan In 2017, kindergarten readiness rates in American Falls, a one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho, hit “rock bottom.” And if 10 isn’t enough, you can read all of our early childhood coverage here.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple statewide funding sources for education technology. In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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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. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Purdue University did it in 2017 when it purchased the for-profit Kaplan University , which boasted about 32,000 students, most of them online. But we’ve seen an interesting trend in how some state universities have decided to get into online learning—with a big splash.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges are embracing the need for students to get out of the classroom, says LaDale Winling, a history professor at Virginia Tech and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, which came out in 2017.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. Seeing them not only as talented teachers, but as full human beings with passions and gifts, made me want to pursue teaching even more. You can pursue more than one path,” I told myself.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

Olga is a recruiter for the Migrant Education Program (MEP); by working side by side with the farmworkers she hopes to recruit, Olga can talk about the services MEP provides, and hopefully, enroll them in the program. Olga’s dedication is an example of what over 100 regional staff do to support farmworkers and their families.

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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. On the contrary, teachers want professional learning that is practical, engaging and relevant. The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

How a Small Town in a Red State Rallied Around Universal Preschool In 2017, kindergarten readiness rates in American Falls, a one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho, were “rock bottom.” Then a school leader launched a campaign encouraging families to “read, talk, play” with children every single day.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While there’s still a significant racial gap in educational achievement, the proportion of Black students nationwide who graduated from high school on time rose from 66 percent in 2009-10 to 79 percent in 2017-18 , the last period for which the figures are available from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

By 2017, EdSurge noted that some college administrators were wary of Piazza’s approach, because professors were adopting the tool with no oversight from college leaders who needed to make sure it aligned with data practices used elsewhere on campus. One of those issues was student privacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

CAST Tech, which opened in fall 2017 with 175 freshmen, is the first of three career-themed public high schools currently planned for San Antonio. The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. All of this is by design.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, a 2017 report from the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice , notes the growing demand from the field that practitioners acknowledge many of the values and practices of restorative justice come directly from Indigenous communities in North America and across the globe.

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