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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 24, 2021

Many educators are asking, “How do I find the tools that we can leverage to achieve our vision for the 2021-22 school year?”. The Educating All Learners Alliance provides a tech tool library that describes accessibility information for digital educational products. Learners, educators, and communities know what they need best.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Host an event if you are in one of the 17 RLDAA regions for 2021. Attend an event.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. It’s perplexing,” said Elena Forzani, an assistant professor of education at Boston University, in reaction to this reading data, which is still unpublished but was presented at two education conferences in April 2021. “We

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

Perhaps unsurprisingly, health and wellness requests were up for both years of the pandemic, with 18,361 such requests from 2021-2022. During the second year of the pandemic, from 2021-2022, there were 19,027 requests in that category, a 52 percent increase.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

The authors also found that between 2015 and 2021, the proportion of lower-income families who are under-connected has hardly changed. The money, which schools and libraries could start applying for on June 29, “will help close the homework gap,” Rosenworcel said. An additional $7.17

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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. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

With libraries shuttered and bookstores a nonessential trip, many parents have downloaded book after book on tablets and smartphones to keep their little ones reading. A new analysis of all the research on digital picture books , published in March 2021, helps to answer this question. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

decided in 2021, upheld a student’s right to free speech outside of school hours and off of the school campus. For example, a teacher from New Jersey briefed a case involving books removed from school libraries, Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. This was the theme of the most recent cases the teachers read.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Modern States offers a library of 32 online courses is designed to teach learners what they need to know to pass the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams. As the population of immigrant-origin students in college grows, maintaining barriers to their success is increasingly damaging to individuals and our nation.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Their team consisted of a high school student, a teacher, a library media specialist, and the technology team. The teacher and library media specialist provided insight into how specific tools were currently being used and discussed how staff members could possibly introduce a new tool into the district.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

While a year teaching and learning with COVID-19 looming unveiled inequities that have always existed, what was learned can inform how the nation proceeds in transforming educational systems designed to understand and address the learner variability of each student.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. Princeton University Press. Watters, A. Teaching Machines.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

By Jennifer Yoo-Brannon When a proposed bill in Iowa suggested putting cameras in classrooms, teacher and 2021-22 Voices of Change writing fellow Jennifer Yoo-Brannon wondered what such devices would actually capture. Concerned Parents and Lawmakers: Here’s What You’ll Really See in My Classroom. Teaching Broke My Heart.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The children’s library at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. One study quoted in a White House report found that the number of chronically absent public school students nearly doubled , from around 15 percent in the 2018-19 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-22. And teachers want more support, too.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

According to the National Library of Medicine , at the beginning of the 19th century, the world’s population exceeded 1 billion people for the first time. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. By 1920, the world had surpassed 2 billion people. In the U.S. To further complicate matters, the U.S. Despite the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. million, the college lost $373,520 in 2020 and $850,202 in 2021 , tax records show. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

In most cases, we received data from 2017-18 to 2021-22. In the case of Vermont, however, we did not have data for 2021-22 and in North Carolina, we had data only for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. We also hand-coded 1,500 of the remaining records. Each incident could have as many “yeses” as merited.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. The demographics of rural schools have been changing nationwide.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

2021, Assistant Principal Justin Taylor presented about 5 key learnings that emerged from the process of video coaching and video-based professional learning. Instructional coaches added teaching video clips to their Edthena Video Library. At the Learning Forward conference in Dec. Quality Control.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. Well over 90 percent of surveyed students reported that they had access to a school-issued device in the fall of 2021. But it’s increasingly common. There are early signs of progress.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

During whisper reading time in Iturralde’s class, 7-year-old Nicholas Villagomez reminisced excitedly about the last time he visited his school’s library. Iturralde says she notices students are excited to be in class again and visit the library and do other hands-on activities. Credit: John Walker/The Fresno Bee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We offer girls and nonbinary students in-person, after-school programming in schools, community centers and libraries, as well as summer immersion programs. Enrollment in our programs jumped by more than 200 percent from 2019 to 2021. My organization works to close the gender gap in tech by teaching girls to code.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Credit: Lauren Wagner for The Hechinger Report The training in Lexington began in 2021 with a program called the “Professional Learning Series,” which included 55 hours of classes on the licensing process or required skills for high-quality early childhood education. It took several hours more to help participants navigate an online class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. After that, Kailani stopped attending math. that provided the necessary data.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

And the pandemic “sent everything into hyperdrive,” according to one principal: Bozeman, a city of 53,000, added 3,211 residents between July 2020 and July 2021. opened in fall 2021. Census Bureau data released in September 2021. That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To accommodate all the students on break at any given time, administrators have opened up several different recess areas for students, including the gym, the blacktop, and the library, which features chess sets, card games, and an exercise bike with a built-in bookstand. “As

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. Imagine a country where you are a slave. You have no rights. You cannot vote or meet and organize with others like yourself who are also denied these rights. The year is 1964. You are Black.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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