The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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A 2019 report from the Century Foundation, called “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses, ” urged institutions to turn away from outsourced programs. OPMs have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly for tuition-sharing contracts that critics say encourage predatory marketing practices and swell student loan debt.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Nudging texts even prompted parents of preschoolers to read to their kids more. But as the texts reached larger numbers of people, they stopped working.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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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 20, 2020

These descriptions of education technology research may comfort educators and parents looking for ways to mitigate the devastating effects of lost learning time because of the coronavirus. Districts spent more than $ 12 billion on ed tech in 2019. But they are all misleading. There’s more evidence of what doesn’t work.”

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Using technology to score essays is nothing new. A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students.

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Why it matters: The federal government spent almost $2 billion on tutoring over the course of 2020 and 2021, and venture capitalists followed suit in 2022, investing more than $300 million in tutoring companies. In 2022, organizations started choosing where they would continue to spend their technology resources.

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Data privacy has become part of the “core and root” of what the school system does, says Jim Corns, executive director of information technology for Baltimore County Public Schools. Venzke’s organization published a report in 2019 arguing for chief privacy officers in schools and providing a template job description.)

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It added 21 million new learners this year, which is less than the 31 million in 2020, but more than twice the 8 million it gained in 2019. MOOCs started out with a promise of free education for everyone, everywhere. The pandemic also increased the adoption of online courses from corporations and governments around the world.

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In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. The ARPA funds shifted Gale’s mindset about what’s possible, and how and why she believes the government should play a role in child care — as it does in nearly every other industrialized country. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

It was the next best thing they could have done to make it feel special,” said a member of the Class of 2019, a teacher in Boston who drove to the home of a current student in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and delivered the invitation in his yard. But residential colleges also bring together a crucial community of peers and invested adults.

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MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. It simply accelerated a problem for higher education that already existed. The root causes of this crisis have not changed much over the last seven years.

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JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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Bradley Dennison (left) and his "little brother" Timothy Witchet celebrate Witchet's graduation from Texas Southern University in May 2019. Witchet is now a pre-kindergarten teacher and recently wrapped up his master’s degree in education leadership. They were paired through Big Brothers Big Sisters when Witchet was in fifth grade.

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MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. Today, following the global pandemic surge, 24 Chinese MOOC platforms offer an astonishing 52,000 courses, more than double the number in 2019.

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JULY 16, 2024

Nonresident senior fellow Phillip Levine found that, between the 1995 and 2019 academic years, the share of college students who pay the full cost of attendance fell from 53 percent to 26 percent for those enrolled in state at public colleges. It fell from 29 percent to 16 percent for those enrolled at private, nonprofit colleges.

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MARCH 7, 2022

It’s not impossible: In 2019, the European Union issued 45 conclusions for adoption by member states , all based upon the human development premise of Human Ecology. Since we can’t count on Human Ecology education coming from families, schools are on the hook. Or, think even bigger. What if the U.S. That taxes society, literally.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Council of Graduate Schools and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center have documented significant growth for graduate enrollment— up 5 percent between 2019 and 2021 , compared to a 5 percent decline in undergraduate enrollment. And, the salary premium for advanced degrees remains high, meaning the degrees typically pay off.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 The topic of impact investing dominated a September 2019 lunch panel at BMO’s Annual Back to School Conference, which brings more than a thousand investors and education entrepreneurs together in a Manhattan hotel every year.

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In Maine, the median wage of a child care worker in 2019 was $12.89 Ryan Fecteau, speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and sponsor of the bill, acknowledges that this supplement doesn’t bring the pay of the early childhood workforce to where it should be. (In The legislative session adjourns on Wednesday, May 4.

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MAY 23, 2022

Even then, she recalls being moved by the stories of educators in the field and wanting to find ways to support and uplift its diverse workforce. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began.

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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 ! Victoria was in my U.S. Photo courtesy of Winchester.

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MAY 24, 2022

They have essentially a different body clock that is governing when they want to fall asleep and when they want to wake up in the morning. The law went through the whole process again, and it got signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader. After all, schools are governed by plenty of federal and district policies intended to ensure that they impart a rigorous education.

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The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” 21, 2019 during the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held in Doha, Qatar. (I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Georgia State’s student newspaper, The Signal, devoted a special April 2019 issue to how administrators were monitoring student data. 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. January 16, 2019.

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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. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But because schools don’t have enough staff with the expertise to properly vet safety risks associated with educational technology, he said, the increased use of that tech is putting students at risk. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in.

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APRIL 19, 2022

The story of how educational technologies (edtech) make their way into our schools is very different. Many education companies collect tens of millions of dollars without ever performing a proper efficacy study. Meanwhile, education technology companies face no credible risk of liability for students “failing to learn.”

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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.”

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