The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

million adults like Mims under the age of 65 with some college but no credential as of July 2022, an increase of 2.9 She used her smartphone as an internet hot spot, and when it failed, if she didnt have time to go to the library for internet access, she said she fell behind. Nationally, there were 36.8

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2022

Samuels, 18, who uses they/them pronouns, started by beseeching their district to unblock websites like the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for queer youth, and to refrian from banning library books that featured LGBTQ+ characters or dealt with racism.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

students in July 2022, when the Emergency Connectivity Fund expires – with no concrete plan to extend it. billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. The program received $7.17

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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.

Elementary School 113

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Their team consisted of a high school student, a teacher, a library media specialist, and the technology team.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

In 2022, we explored some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom , so we won’t go into them here. 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. Come back for more.

Social Justice 211

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 13, 2025

Writers and Publishers Lydia Sherrer and Reggie Van Stockum lecture on “How to Publish your Book” at the Shelby County, Kentucky Library on April 9, 2022, during Library Week. Lydia is the Best Selling author of the “Lily Singer Adventure Series.” ” You can check out all of her work at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. CHICO, Calif. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range?

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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. Chamber of Commerce, in 2022 nearly 3 million fewer Americans were participating in the labor force compared to February of 2020. By 1920, the world had surpassed 2 billion people.

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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. FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. It barely made the headlines.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library.

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

We didn’t have to go further than the daily news to hear of school board meetings, classrooms, grocery stores and libraries being impacted by political polarization in our country. A trip to a bookstore or library as a younger person was always a delight. Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

was published on July 12, 2022. But it could be that students who enjoy reading receive lots of books as presents or bring more books home from the library. The report, “ Does the digital world open up an increasing divide in access to print books? ” OECD researchers are most worried about poorer students.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Two cases, both decided in June 2022, concerned religious establishment and free religious expression in the educational context. 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. In Carson v. Pico (1982).

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. This, she noted, is important in early learning because many educators serve families that speak multiple languages.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Last year, nearly 80 percent of graduates enrolled in college, up from 65 percent for the class of 2022. They’d just cleaned the shelves at the Santa Clara Pueblo library, grabbing their favorite titles in Tewa, one of the languages spoken by the Pueblo people in New Mexico. An investigative report released by the U.S.

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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 ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. You need to see how historical narratives are made.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

A closet in the hallway has been transformed into a makeshift library. In-patient mental health hospitalizations for young people rose by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022. For the duration of class, the young patients have only one responsibility: They’re there to learn.

Psychology 127

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So what if there was a new model of university designed from scratch for 2022? In some cases, that might mean partnering with libraries and other facilities to teach classes. Oh, and there’s the COVID pandemic, which jolted all professors into using more online tools, and has brought further changes to the job market.

Sociology 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Fairfax County schools implemented a recess period for all of its middle schools, starting in the 2022-23 school year. Last April, the school board voted to make the break mandatory for all the district’s middle schools, starting in 2022-23. Students watch a kickball game during recess at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Leo Salvatore graduated from college in May 2022 and dreams of becoming a philosopher. There, he tutored fellow undergraduates the old-fashioned way, in person, in the library. Back on campus during his senior year in January 2022, Salvatore noticed a recruiting ad on LinkedIn for online tutors with Paper.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

At the national 2022 ASU+GSV Summit, Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO of Digital Promise, remarked on the connective role of edtech in the relationship between educators, students and educational materials: “In that interaction, I often think of the role of technology, of machines, in enhancing this relationship. percent to 22.5

EdTech 117

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 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. H., & Damasio, A. We feel, therefore we learn: The relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education. UDL now! : Come back for more.

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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. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Actually, it’s 2022, and they are sitting in Debbie Venteicher and Erin Stanley’s American Studies class, gathered around a device and collaboratively working to complete a digital breakout created with Genially. With their hard work, the man allegedly responsible for one of the most notorious crimes in U.S. history has been apprehended.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

million informal caregivers receive the subsidies or related payment, according to a 2022 report from the BUILD Initiative, which provides support to state leaders for early childhood programs. There are also state and locally-funded models for support. But nationally, less than 20 percent of the more than 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lo, the dean of the college of university library and learning sciences at the University of New Mexico and an advocate for AI literacy in higher education, called the partnership a forward-thinking move.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Another series followed in 2022, and this time, there was a professional interpreter and headsets available for translation. Werth recalled the library closing around them one evening as they helped participants use computers for the first time. The series was taught exclusively in English – and did not attract Spanish-speakers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Ludwig, a 2022 graduate who now teaches Earth Science at Arlington High School about 20 miles from New Paltz, took Varga’s class and worked with her on an honors project to research and install the filters. “You You can notice a water bottle floating in a river. You can’t notice microplastics.”

Anthropology 143

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Books are getting banned from classrooms and libraries. In 2022, for example, members of the Oakland Unified school board presented a proposal to close and consolidate up to 15 schools across the district. Across the country, we’ve seen conversations about education become charged. Curriculum is being stripped and censored.

Library 105

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The administrator had been working to hire more staff with $4,000 Giggles & Wiggles had been receiving monthly since 2022. Combined with a tuition increase, the funds helped raise wages by $2 to about $14 an hour on average in the fall of 2022, but it still wasn’t nearly enough to attract job candidates to the center.

K-12 123

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The children’s library at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. A recent study found that depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in teen girls has reached record highs, and that the number of mental health hospitalizations for children more than doubled between 2016 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

To make sure the content is exciting and relevant to kids, classroom libraries are stocked with culturally relevant books that represent Columbus’ diversity (the principal reported that 38 percent of students are Hispanic, 27 percent are Black, 17 percent are Asian, and 12 percent are white). “I

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