The Hechinger Report

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. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. Even still, educators are continuing to find productive ways to use nudges.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says. However, the cliche of “public markets are not the economy” holds just as true today as it did in the heady days of the 2020 V-shaped recovery, only in reverse this time around. Just in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Percentage of New Online Courses 20202021Coursera31%39%edX16%26%FutureLearn38%51% Class Central analyses show that the fraction of new non-university courses created on Coursera increased from 31 percent in 2020 to 39 percent in 2021. It led me to call 2020 the “Second Year of the MOOC.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

It also comes nearly four years after the RAPID project’s launch in April 2020. Educated, experienced, passionate teachers aren't able to stay in this field because they literally can't afford to,” wrote a center-based teacher in Wyoming. The report comes as a U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

In 2020, by one federal estimate, 18 percent of people living on tribal lands were unable to access broadband (outside of tribal areas, that number was closer to 4 percent). But the company successfully ran fiber to Pine Hill School, a health clinic and the tribal government buildings. That’s especially a problem on tribal lands.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis of federal government data by Jeff Seaman of Bayview Analytics shows that enrollment in on-campus courses fell nearly 11 percent in the past decade and almost 30 percent from 2020 to 2021.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Department of Education funding to $88.3 But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers. Community colleges are best positioned to meet the needs of the American workforce—but intervention at historic levels is necessary.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2024

The update traces back to the 2020 FAFSA Simplification Act. But she’s glad the government is trying to improve the process, she notes. It may have unleashed an enrollment drop that some experts worry could have a greater impact on college access than COVID-19. An Annoyance, or Worse? It was still confusing.

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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. And it’s certainly helped anchor my columns for EdSurge.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history, European history, human geography, AP government. I was a freshman in college in fall 2020. I'll be leaving in 2024.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

That was the case of Birmingham, Alabama, where a 1:1 initiative was imposed by the city government in 2008 with virtually no support for professional development, technological infrastructure, curricula or repair. But these positive teaching and learning benefits didn’t occur in a handful of counterexamples. But one thing is for sure.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

A study by the Naval Postgraduate School showed that despite the fact that military families have government insurance that covers mental health treatment, up to 35 percent lacked adequate access to psychiatric care.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

She points to a controversial experiment in 2020 , during the height of the pandemic, when many schools had to close and operate remotely. Thousands of students complained about their resulting scores, and some governments launched formal investigations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The district formed the position proactively, according to its leadership , because the community around the district had grown concerned that its increasing adoption of technology carried extra privacy risks. Despite its efforts, the district suffered a big ransomware attack in 2020.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. However, after taking matters into her own hands, Sheliya was able to find a person on social media that secured housing via Open Homes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change. Education and government leaders are talking about mental health and well-being more directly. My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers. If not now, then when?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

Coronavirus and School Closures (2020, March 6). Education Week. Retrieved April 2, 2020 from [link] The Northshore School District was among the first in the nation to close, according to Education Week’s historical data. The district also started airing lessons on its TV channel. It shouldn’t be dependent on a district.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million children who entered kindergarten in the fall of 2020, and as a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, started her public school career remotely. In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 Our daughter was one of 3.7 It’s estimated that more than one in five children in the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

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. Take the actual dollar amounts received by tribes in 2020. “Generally [the Department of] Commerce oversees the Census, but it’s not just a Commerce and data problem.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There wasn’t enough money from [government subsidies] and from family tuition.” In addition to prices rising on everyday goods and services, the rent on the house she lives in and operates her program out of has increased $700 per month since 2020. “Not only do wages go up, but payroll taxes go up, too,” Hutzenbiler says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 2021, the fund at Milwaukee Area Technical College commissioned a researcher at the nonprofit Opportunity@Work to conduct a survey of all 488 students who applied for emergency aid in the 2020-2021 academic year, to determine who they were, what needs they had, and what their experience was like accessing aid.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. During 2020 quarantine orders for COVID-19, Gonzalez’s husband asked her to stop providing child care, but she felt she had no choice.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

There’s this possibility at any moment — and this has been true since 2020 — that suddenly many, many, many more teachers will leave the profession than ever before,” he says. “We are in a region and in a state with tremendous competition for teacher talent,” Grant-Skinner says, and where supply appears not to be keeping pace with demand.

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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.” Nesta is planning 12 ed tech trials during the 2020-21 year with three each quarter.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

That’s one question raised by the work of philosopher Waheed Hussain in his 2020 scholarly paper, “ Pitting People Against Each Other.” One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied. In other words, is the system set up to encourage one to want to step over the back of the other to get what they both want?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2022

Digital Promise’s solution: a certification for edtech companies that was originally launched in 2020 to help educators figure out which products are implementing best research practices. Federal involvement Collecting information about edtech products is a problem some people think the federal government should be handling. “I

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