Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Technology should support rather than replace human interactions. What was reaffirmed by the amount of time parents spend supplementing the use of virtual programs and the emphasis stakeholders across our personalized learning initiative placed on educator capacity is that education inherently remains a human endeavor.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

A big benefit for David is that AI Coach can scale across the district’s teaching community overcoming traditional constraints like timing and logistics. He reflected on his transition from skepticism to advocacy, emphasizing the importance of staying current with technology to enhance educational practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Humanizing the Hijab These instances from parents, fellow teachers and students not only revealed their lack of understanding of Islamic culture but also underscored the importance of explaining and dismantling these stereotypes within my own school.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. How we care for our students is inextricably linked with how our ancestors cared for others, the children who were theirs and those who weren’t.

Education 119

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. Equal opportunity goes in all directions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. Chad Golden, executive director of human resources, also added a position in his office dedicated to recruiting substitutes. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. What came through in interviews was her human-centered approach. So Kang is listening.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

Edward Gonzalez There has been some progress in the human-centered design movement, Raña says, where companies involve the end-users in a product's design — but she argues that the edtech landscape needs to do much more when it comes to designing for Latino and Black children. “And That is just and humanizing. You feel me?”

Educational Technology 86

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Knowledge sometimes can cause these internal conflicts, and even stress, where weoftenhave to decide between making a choice that we feel is ethical and correct or making a choice that fits our personal food preferences, traditions, lifestyle, bank accounts, and access. It all goes back to knowledge is power and advocacy.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. With teacher librarians across the U.S.

Library 80

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Department of Health and Human Services. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It In the U.S.,

Elementary School 109

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Related: How one tiny town is battling ‘rural brain drain’. Photo: Trxlation for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Leave this field empty if you're human: “Teachers said, ‘If this is good for kids, why not bring it to all of them?’ ” said Steiner. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

Advocacy 78

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. is in trouble. “It

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. While Code Next’s classes don’t necessarily rely on traditional mathematics, some parents wonder what benefit comes to students for whom higher education may seem unobtainable.

Education 95

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

Advocacy 102

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Social Justice 110

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

High School 105

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. With an ending to her long journey in sight, Hernandez thinks about the many conversations she’s had with her younger sister, who works in human resources at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

Economics 113

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earl Edwards, an assistant professor at Boston College’s School of Education and Human Development, argues that McKinney-Vento was premised on an idea still pervasive in the policy debate on homelessness: Like a tornado that levels towns at random, housing misfortune has an equal chance of afflicting anyone, regardless of who they are.

Advocacy 75

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the spring of 2022, after enduring a string of 10-day quarantines, James, a human resources director, and her husband, an employment attorney, decided to pull their son out of child care to try to keep the family healthy before the birth of their second child. “We Credit: Image provided by Mitch Meyer.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

A version of this story appeared in USA Today But someone has to do all that charming, and not everyone has the magic touch, explains Tim Berry, vice president of human resources for the Dollywood Company. Momentum there is really important.

K-12 85

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. That argument has helped build support, said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada.

Advocacy 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. Sign up for our newsletter.

High School 60

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content. Students at the University of Calgary tackled these important equity gaps by focusing on issues closer to home.

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office. Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

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