The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

A year later, in the fall of 2021, online learning had fallen to 60 percent of college students, but many schools had not yet resumed normal operations. Online has become more the norm,” said Phil Hill, a consultant and market analyst of education technology in higher education, whose newsletter alerted me to the new milestone. “It’s

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MARCH 28, 2022

This work requires a depth of discipline and perseverance from our students that can at times be difficult to foster within the limits of traditional instruction. The white picket fence, two kids, and the traditional nine-to-five workday are quickly losing their appeal. The American Dream no longer exists as Gen Xers know it to be.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The education profession feels more female than ever. In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 That tracked with national figures, which showed that roughly 23 percent of teachers were male in the 2020 to 2021 school year. Why would they want to go back to that?”

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APRIL 20, 2022

In the summer of 2021, the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed 500 executives, 1,200 supervisors, 1,129 human resource professionals, and 1,525 workers who don’t supervise other employees about their attitudes toward alternative credentials.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

that provides increased academic, social-emotional and behavioral support for students who aren’t thriving in traditional settings. In January 2021, after losing months of his education, he was placed back in the MAPs program, this time as a condition of his release.

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MAY 30, 2023

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. Department of Labor in 2021 to designate education as an eligible sector.

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MAY 16, 2022

It’s also important that higher education, as it increasingly embraces a test optional environment, understands what is being foregone when a test score is omitted from the admissions process.” The report examined data from more than 4 million high school students from 2010 to 2021 who took the ACT. grade points, from 3.17

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JUNE 21, 2022

And while gameplay certainly delivers positive outcomes for students—emphasizing teamwork, strategic thinking and social-emotional development—educators don’t traditionally consider button mashing an academic pursuit. A 15 year-old going by the username Shininglice has dominated the competitive coding league since its launch in 2021.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

So when schools called us during the summer of 2021, they often asked whether they should stick with the schedules they created for distance, hybrid or safer in-person learning or return to a more traditional format. Our consistent answer is: “Don’t go back!” The truth is, some do and some don’t.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. John’s sharp intellect was apparent.

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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 Ohio, for example, state lawmakers passed anti-hazing legislation in 2021 that requires colleges to create an educational program on hazing that students can complete during orientation.

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MAY 4, 2023

Yet how we devised the traditional education system, they can’t be accepted the way they are. Online education opens the door to be inclusive,” Austin says. By the time Osgood completed her summer labs in 2021, the number of students participating had grown from about four dozen in 2018 to about 400, according to Austin.

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MAY 2, 2022

We have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition. But we have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition. We pivoted in March 2020, then again in fall 2020, then again in fall 2021. And leaders can’t afford to spend too much time fiddling around at the margins.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is playing out especially at community colleges, many of which traditionally offered entry-level certificates in early childhood education. The health crisis exacerbated the high rate of turnover that already plagued the early childhood education industry.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In essence, each student who entered my classroom in the fall of 2021 was not the same one who left in March of 2020. Our school was at the start of this process in early 2020 and when COVID-19 hit, our newly adopted Core Values had not yet been formally introduced to the school community.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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MAY 20, 2024

That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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JULY 22, 2022

To start to shift those figures, the department makes Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations grants to organizations like Moore Community House (which received $750,000 from the government in 2021). These jobs include information security analyst and engineering roles of all types.

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JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. From self-checkout at the grocery store to the ability of AI to detect serious diseases on medical scans, workers in all areas find themselves working alongside tools that can do parts of their jobs.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

School policies that racialize traditional Black hairstyles as unkempt and unprofessional have placed targets on Black students that not only impact their self-esteem but also their ability to engage with their academic studies.

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JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box. population as of 2021.

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JANUARY 17, 2022

In fall 2021, I took my first steps into the world of ungrading. This is undoubtedly an artifact of traditional grading systems: They encourage a one-and-done approach that penalizes taking time to learn. Many traditional grading systems have muddy rules that lead to miserable scenarios. Inspired by Susan D.

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MAY 6, 2022

This day is also a time to take collective action to address the hardships and systemic barriers that providers face as they support our families. We know that providers are deeply committed to families, but many simply can’t manage financially.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

. — Danielle Caldwell It’s a bitter contradiction that spans the field: The job is a difficult one to do into old age, yet few who stick with it are able to set aside enough money to enjoy a traditional retirement. “It Not many people in this field look beyond tomorrow,” Graham says, explaining the low uptake.

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APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. We don't have enough places for our youth to go.”

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AUGUST 16, 2022

But when schools returned fully in person for the 2021-22 school year, my workload increased dramatically. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. I have always put in extra hours outside of the school day. It’s just a reality of the job.

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MAY 23, 2022

We’re still providing and still lifting up high-quality early education,” she explains. A Time of Transition And then in spring 2021, NAEYC’s CEO of nearly a decade announced she would be stepping down in the coming year. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting. We’re just doing it differently.”

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MARCH 7, 2023

When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. go to college each year — more than 4 million graduated in 2021 alone. So he had decided to try his subversive fellowship instead.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. Related: 3 lessons from data on how students are actually using educational apps and software at school. But that won’t be until late 2021 at the soonest. In the world of education, even rapid feedback loops are slow.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Should traditional institutions function more like online mega-universities? Can these innovative credentials offer an alternative to traditional degrees, diplomas and grades, to help meet student and employer demand for skills? As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R.

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MAY 16, 2023

Though some staff, such as those in marketing and accounting roles, work traditional business hours, many who work in guest services and support park operations are working on weekends, in the evenings and over holidays. That wasn’t feasible or practical.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

His book, released in 2021, is currently the basis of a traveling exhibition. These days, race and educational opportunity still seem troublingly linked. We have a 380-year tradition in which education has been the backbone of the American Dream, the on-ramp to the American middle class.

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JUNE 30, 2023

In that essay, I explored the intense burnout I experienced upon returning to the classroom for my second year teaching in fall 2021. Some asked questions about how to reimagine the traditional and alternative structures of teaching and learning environments. What Happens When It Doesn't? ”

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JUNE 1, 2022

The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II. The design interface comes from VictoryXR, a company that sells virtual-reality education technology.

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APRIL 25, 2022

Higher education marketers moved more and more of our strategy toward paid social media marketing. Enrollment marketers piggybacked on the traditional practice from our colleagues in admissions of buying lists of names of students who have taken the ACT and SAT. And the price for this marketing utopia?

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