The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

Research 112

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. Jenna Sablan, assistant research professor at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

Political Science 145

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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.

Education 84

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Even the federal government has endorsed the approach. 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.” Here’s a look at the upsides, drawbacks and nuances of the debate.

Education 124

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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.

High School 111

High School Tradition Educational Technology Critical Thinking 111

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.”.

K-12 98

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content. One of the original concepts of microcredentials came from Mozilla’s drive for open recognition of skills through badges.

Social Justice 122

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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Over the years, I’ve been involved in developing research programs and projects in education technology, games, and virtual reality. As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

Humanities 324

Humanities Archiving EdTech Tutoring 324

ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

Housing is among the reasons the number of licensed home-based child care providers in the United States declined by almost half between 2005 and 2017, experts say. In short, SB 234 prohibits local governments from requiring small or large family child care programs to get a zoning permit or business license.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

One dynamic that I never dreamed of: the acquisition of struggling for-profit colleges by non-profit (and especially public) universities, such as the examples of Purdue and Kaplan University in 2017 and the University of Arizona and Ashford in 2020. And it’s certainly helped anchor my columns for EdSurge.

Tradition 140

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Data from Fiedler shows a steady incline in graduation rates for the district between 2017 and 2022. Plus, Fiedler adds, the graduation rates have lifted, including for disadvantaged students.

Elementary School 135

Elementary School Research Education Government 135

ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

Public School 95

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

In 2017 , it began allowing schools to fill teacher roles with workers so long as they had a bachelor’s degree and five years of work experience in the subject they’d be teaching. That’s similar to a teacher-job-applicant-pool-widening strategy Arizona has tried before.

Charter School 109

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Karen Stephenson on trust-based social network analysis.

K-12 78

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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 84

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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 125

High School K-12 Public School Library 125

ED Surge

DECEMBER 7, 2023

All these recent events give details to data compiled by the federal government on discipline and harassment in U.S. Department of Education released figures on student discipline during the 2020-21 school year — when most districts were implementing some mixture of hybrid and in-person classes. public schools. In November, the U.S.

K-12 131

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Unfortunately, neither the federal government nor states reliably keep records on teacher turnover, making that figure hard to confirm. In place of pricey one-on-one coaching, Gomez offers online courses to help educators refine their resumes and skill sets for other fields. This is not something we would do in any other profession.”

Teaching 144

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. This is her second year in the profession, and the Illinois State Board of Education recently recognized her as the 2023 Outstanding Teacher of the Year !

World History 122

World History World Religions Civics History 122

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Curtatone encouraged Resnick and Duffy to take advantage of Massachusetts’ Innovation Schools provision, which offers public schools much of the flexibility charters enjoy without the independent governance that makes charter opponents bristle.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. In 2017, it advanced its message through a celebrity-studded network TV special , featuring Tom Hanks and James Corden doing karaoke on a school bus.

High School 120

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. We were just borrowing the technological resources from the healthcare side of the business,” said Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB and one of its first employees. Government had created pressure for accountability. The poster child.

Library 111

Library Humanities Tutoring High School 111

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The first was the model for Biden’s child care proposal in his Build Back Better package, expected to cost the federal government about $400 billion, and the second about $700 billion , both over a 10-year-period. Iterations of both bills have been reintroduced for several years, always with only Democrats and independent Sens.

Government 117

Government Public School Economics Education 117

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Thats why Anjum is among those dismayed by the aggressive backlash against programs centered on diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government, private companies and higher education. Her parents, who are from Togo in West Africa, emphasized that education would be her path to upward mobility.

Government 108

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Help various sectors—K-12, higher education, employers, communities, government and industry—work together in making the shift. The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions.

Education 102

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos arrives in the House Chamber before President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress in the Capitol, February 28, 2017. Education Secretary Betsy Devos is widely expected to make school choice the centerpiece of her reform agenda. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.

K-12 100

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2025

Department of Education that is working with states and working with districts, Rodrigues said. The Department of Education did not respond by publication time to The 19ths request for comment about McMahons plans on gun violence. How do we fix this within the constraints that we have? They made massive progress on that, he said.

K-12 52

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