Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Let’s start a movement.

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EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Advocacy 133

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2022

That is: schools should respond to what their customers want. Public schools are publicly funded. Consequently, they need to advance the public interest. Hard as it may be to swallow, sometimes our own desires don't always perfectly align w/ the public good. School often sucks. Advocacy is exhausting.

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Education Advocacy Public School High School 117

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate.

Advocacy 143

Advocacy Public School Education Educational Technology 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

Professional Development 24

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 24

ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

schools still have unspent stimulus funding that might be used on infrastructure investments like Illuminate’s offerings. There’s been a lot of consolidation in edtech since the pandemic, with players like Renaissance making big moves, says Anna Edwards, chief advocacy officer and cofounder of Whiteboard Advisors.

EdTech 109

EdTech K-12 Education Advocacy 109

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. Senate found that Monarch School’s students had poor reading and math skills when compared to public schools in the San Diego area, especially for elementary students.

K-12 127

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

About a decade ago, leaders in this public school district nearly 70 miles northwest of New York City decided to radically change the way they provide education to its diverse and academically challenged student body. It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student.

Education 102

Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The first job I took in Chicago Public Schools in 2007 was at a school where the administration truly valued student and staff input. I remember sitting with students as we interviewed potential new teachers and the students saying things like, “This teacher doesn’t seem like they will be a good fit for our school family.”

Advocacy 122

Advocacy Teaching Public School History Education 122

ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

High School 115

High School K-12 Advocacy Public School 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

High School 117

High School K-12 Public School Library 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 71

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

When the regular public school he attended several years ago closed during the pandemic, Bradley switched to remote learning. But solutions to school avoidance must meet the unique needs of each student. Her work involves separating the student from the school where he or she is experiencing problems. I can feel.

Advocacy 130

Advocacy High School Middle School Tradition 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Nagayoshi, 30, decided in August to leave his job teaching Advanced Placement English in the city of New Bedford for a job at an education technology company.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

Inclusive Curriculum 106

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The effort is led by one of the most celebrated leaders of the blended- and personalized-learning movement, California-based charter network Summit Public Schools. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 82

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. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. 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.

K-12 134

K-12 Library EdTech Government 134

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Amy O'Leary, executive director of Strategies for Children, a policy and advocacy organization in Massachusetts, is encouraged by what’s happening in her state. So often, she says, leaders do not take the time to understand the nuances of early care and education, making it impossible for them to address the root causes of a broken system.

Education 142

Education Advocacy Library Government 142

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook. This is not something we would do in any other profession.”

Teaching 144

Teaching Middle School Museum Educational Technology 144

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If the only approach schools took to address this crisis was hiring more counselors, they would ignore what these Detroit youth organizers are highlighting: the underlying policies and practices in schools that exacerbate the fear and anxiety immigrant students experience in schools.

Charter School 102

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 102

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Oppression Olympics During this year’s Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders heritage month, Florida mandated public schools to teach Asian American history — while almost simultaneously banning African American history, criminalizing health care for transgender folks, and being added to travel advisory lists by the NAACP and other human rights advocacy (..)

Heritage 102

Heritage Education K-12 American History 102

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

Civics 126

Civics Education Government K-12 126

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Hostility towards transgender and gender-expansive students is a common experience in public schools and according to the GLSEN report, LGBTQIA+ students experience higher rates of verbal and physical harassment in schools, as well as discriminatory school policies.

Education 131

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 131

ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us led with a startling figure: Most of the 120,000 high school students living in the country without legal permission who are graduating this year are ineligible for DACA. public schools were born. before they were 2 years old.

Education 115

Education Advocacy High School Middle School 115

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It has resulted in more than a billion dollars leaving the public school system and actually not serving additional kids in private schools, Jones said. It's just serving the same kids in the private schools whose parents are higher incomes and who had already chosen to send their kids there.

K-12 73

K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 73