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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A 2019 Gallup report found that educators who focus on creativity and use technology in transformative ways see significant gains — students are more engaged, demonstrate better critical thinking, retain more, make connections between subjects and achieve deeper learning. And AI opens up more opportunities for student creation.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 16, 2020

Traditional approaches where students listen, take notes, memorize and regurgitate on a test are no longer a viable means of preparation for our ever-changing world. How could these methods of “educating” our children effectively prepare them for this world? Sometimes educational technology can be a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, I worried about whether we would meet our students' academic, emotional, and social needs, especially for students that attend a non-traditional school. Throughout the pandemic, discussions about supporting students have centered on traditional, comprehensive schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Andrew’s, we also help run the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, which trains educators in MBE and other research-based strategies. In 2019, we wrote about our school’s journey in revising its 20th century schedule to align more with the most promising research in MBE, prioritizing things like sleep (i.e.,

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Add in demographic changes, and it’s no surprise that demand is falling for the traditional college experience. It simply accelerated a problem for higher education that already existed. This is especially true as escalating tuition costs are outpacing both the average household income and the rate of inflation.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

According to 2019 data from the National Science Foundation, women held one-third of STEM occupations in the United States. jobs in science and engineering in 2019. Yet, after decades of work to improve representation in STEM careers, we’re still left with dismal results. percent of Latina women, 1.8 percent of Black women and 0.1

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

To expand the nation’s technical talent pool, Chinese universities are upgrading their capacity to offer more up-to-date science and technology courses, with universities just beginning to introduce degrees in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software engineering and other advanced specialties.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Another program brings students and families to campus for a day to learn about university traditions and how to get involved on campus. In 2019, I probably would have heard from parents and students, ‘It's annoying,’ ‘It's hard to get here,’ ‘How could you possibly require this in-person orientation?”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. When I arrived, the principal saw me and immediately frowned once she saw my appearance and the hijab on my head.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ralphie came to us via a disciplinary hearing in the spring of 2019, after he was charged with multiple disciplinary infractions including fighting and drug use. that provides increased academic, social-emotional and behavioral support for students who aren’t thriving in traditional settings. He was 14 years old.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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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 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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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

According to the most recent National Survey of Early Care and Education , administered by the Administration for Children and Families in 2019, there are over 5 million caregivers and providers caring for about 6.8 million children ages 0-5 in a home setting.

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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 In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike. Instead, once again, they worked on their iPads at the end of the day so I could hope to get it all done. I felt trapped.

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ED Surge

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. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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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. Photo courtesy of Powderhouse Studios.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. You can’t expect the traditional, residential college to take care of that,” says Kizilcec. And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year. SoapBox launched a multi-year partnership with the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University in 2019, to develop literacy assessments, according to the center's website.

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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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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. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. But when I look at what’s there, it’s good stuff.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. 21, 2019 during the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) held in Doha, Qatar. (I Related: 3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So for the first time, this academic year education students are eligible to receive a stipend during their student-teaching internships. The special-education program has grown from about 10 enrolled students when it restarted to about 100 students now.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. I was raised above all else to not only revere education, but to literally show respect to educators and elders by being a dutiful, quiet, listening and obedient learner.

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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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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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A 2019 report administered by GLSEN , an organization working to end discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people in schools, found that 40 percent of Texas LGBTQIA+ students regularly hear teachers make negative comments about gender expression. This responsibility is sacred, transcending the expectations of a traditional occupation.

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