ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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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

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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Jacob Phillips, Nome Public Schools’ director of technology, stands at the site on the edge of town where Quintillion’s new fiber-optic cable is buried. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million.

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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As I’ve developed my thinking around funding and conducting research in learning technologies, I always come back to an unpublished technical report written by one of my early mentors in the Navy.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model. .…

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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

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time. It started enrolling students in upper-level courses in fall 2021, boasting “one of the most affordable bachelor’s degrees in the country,” according to Sara DeLano, dean of educator pathways at the Dallas College School of Education. “If

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

My heart ached as I swapped out favorite classroom activities and traditions for ones that required less prep, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. “I The issue of teacher pay prevented North Carolina from passing a budget from 2017 to 2022. I felt trapped. In 2014, the teacher pay scale was overhauled, eliminating longevity pay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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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.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Hiring Students as Substitutes The University of Central Florida’s undergrad program to train special-education teachers was suspended when its coordinator retired. Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Only 53 percent of women in their 20s who gave birth in their teens hold a traditional high school diploma, compared to 90 percent of women who didn’t, according to Child Trends , a research organization focused on young people. 53 % of teen moms have earned a traditional diploma by their 20s. No, sweetie,” she tells them.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2025

That was 2017, and Evangelista was then a principal. In 2017, the New York City Department of Education released a regulation that spelled out clear steps for how schools should deal with immigration officers. These families have reversed some enrollment losses and brought enrollment-dependent money back to public schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What do we do?’,” she added, giving the example of how to handle revising a financial-aid reward if, say, a student is switching from a traditional program to a competency-based one mid-year. Questions have been raised about some forms of competency-based education. We just broke the system. We're continually revising policy.

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