ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2021

Fortunately, educators can leverage learnings from some leading-edge K-12 districts who have developed thoughtful processes for making edtech decisions despite limited available evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4 Even though K12 sees opportunity within the coronavirus school closures, Jeffrey Silber, managing director at BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t expect a massive increase in the number of K-12 students taking virtual courses. million annually on advertising, according to SEC filings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Launched in 2017, Calling BS became an instant hit at the University of Washington; it fills its 150-student capacity quickly each year. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, dean of the university’s School of Education, agrees that paying aspiring educators for their time and service with K-12 students “eases the pressure” on them to find other part-time jobs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the spirit of backward design, by conceiving what well-rounded success looks like at the end of the K-12 journey, these Portraits lay the foundation for what the pathway itself needs to be. To date, all 50 U.S. Does your district have such a Portrait of a Graduate? We want to know.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Since 2017, students in Mineola have been introduced to coding through unplugged classes in pre-K, and by first grade, have been allowed to take the devices home. In a pre-K class at Hampton Street students worked on learning the letter L by cutting it from paper or fashioning it from clay. Otherwise, we’re not doing our job.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, the global learning platform Kahoot has been growing its foothold in the K-12 space through acquisitions and add-ons to its popular quiz platform. It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes. Can he join?”

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

Mentor Public Schools is a suburban district 20 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio, which serves 7,650 preK-12 students across 42 square miles. Adapting to create innovative environments. I hope they leave here wanting to create more of these opportunities in their districts.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Eighth-grade math scores fell three points since the last time NAEP was administered in 2017. In 2019, after it became clear that Massachusetts’ K-12 education funding formula was no longer providing adequate resources to less affluent school districts, state leaders addressed the funding problem effectively.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

On My Way Pre-K student Vivian Kimberlin, 5, plays during recess at Zion Lutheran School in Seymour, Indiana. In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Related: Open Educational Resources haven’t upended the way that K-12 schools get course materials – yet. According to a RAND study released in January 2017, the state has seen record growth in the number of students taking Advanced Placement courses, as well as in its high school graduation rate and its rate of college attendance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The projections for all 12 grades end after 2020, but before that, between 2015 and 2020, the total number of students falls by only 1.4 Grades eight through 12 are larger cohorts who were born before 2008. But you might be able to provide pre-K and break even without any additional cost to the state,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

14,385: This is the average amount spent per Black pupil in public school, compared with $14,263 per white student, according to a 2022 analysis of 2017-18 data by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. But the A.P. course, an elective, became ensnared in politics.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. One of the biggest obstacles to improved language learning is a national shortage of qualified teachers,” according to a 2017 report. Scarce in Schools. Most students in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

TNTP’s research found that 38 percent of classrooms with mostly students of color had no grade-level assignments, versus only 12 percent of classrooms with mostly white students. Neil Campbell is the director of innovation for K-12 education policy at the Center for American Progress. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. Beginning in 2017, the office’s leader, Colin Rose, made cultural proficiency a component of every school’s annual accountability reports — essentially forcing schools to address bias and inequity. That’s how toxic the environment was.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Now is the time to capitalize on a growing momentum for personalized, competency-based learning, as 72 percent of Americans say K-12 education should be a top priority for state lawmakers in 2023. Almost half say that they want to see bold changes taking place.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2020

That’s why we created the Google for Education Certified Coach Program—to help instructional coaches become even more effective as they partner with K-12 educators. 1 Digital Promise partnered with Google on the Dynamic Learning Project pilot , a coaching program and research study that took place from 2017-20.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Meanwhile, Hispanic students accounted for 9 percent of the state’s K-12 students. Only 16 Hispanic students in Alabama took more than one information technology class — less than 1 percent of all those who did so. Alabama officials said they face similar obstacles in expanding access to STEM and information technology.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

Below, you’ll find our 10 most popular early childhood stories from the last 12 months, which can loosely be divided into two camps. So this year, for the first time, we’re bringing you a list of the stories that resonated most with you, our readers. And if 10 isn’t enough, you can read all of our early childhood coverage here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

She teaches science in 7 th through 12 th grades in rural Butner, Oklahoma. Since her school district is so small – only around 230 students from pre-K to 12 th grade – she also helps with career counseling. Oklahoma will require all 6 th through 12 th graders to have an individualized career plan by 2025.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. An inter-agency taskforce that includes the Rhode Island’s Governor’s Office launched PrepareRI in 2017 “to create a K-12 education system that is aligned with the demands of colleges and employers.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 expanded the use of these plans to cover kindergarten through twelfth grade expenses. Between 2010 and 2017, there was a 30 percent increase in the number of 529 accounts, which now total 13 million, according to the Pew report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

California mandates one adult for every 12 students in what it calls “transitional kindergarten,” so there’s an aide standing by the door, ready to take any child who needs to use the bathroom into the main building. Related: More schools are adding pre-K classrooms. The state has not provided learning expectations for this new grade.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Between 2005 and 2017, U.S. Related: To smooth transitions from home to pre-K to kindergarten, states must invest in every aspect of early ed. This story about K-12 funding inequities was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2020

There’s no shortage of ideas among the state’s legislative body when it comes to addressing education: Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. Lawmakers filed more than 200 bills focused on K-12 schools last year. Expect a ramp-up soon. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The method of transforming K-12 schools that he advocates in his latest book, What Schools Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America , is of the grassroots variety. Small steps lead to big change, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Clayton district’s efforts to develop more engaging and relatable lessons for math instruction began in 2017, Clarke said. Or, in a more down-to-earth daydream, what salary would be needed to comfortably afford a $7,500 trip to Walt Disney World for a family of four?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For her son’s 12-month appointment, Eakins took Corbin to a different pediatrician, who immediately agreed with her concerns. But comprehensive programs like the one in Dysart are a rarity, especially in a state where public pre-K is not yet widely available for all students, let alone children with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2017

Here in Tucson, K-12 teachers get starting annual salaries in the $30,000 to $35,000 range, the same starting wage as city bus drivers, and a wage far below that of most other professions requiring a Bachelor’s Degree and professional licensing. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

So the GAO turned to Levin’s K-12 Cybersecurity Resource Center , which has been collecting press clips about school data breaches from around the country and monitoring the states that do publicly report, such as Texas. That’s because there’s no federal requirement for school districts to report data breaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2021

There are clear examples of communities working together across K-12 schools, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to prioritize the needs of first-generation college-goers. Related: ‘It’s just too much’: Why students are abandoning community colleges in droves. The solutions are not theories.

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