The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices.

Pedagogy 124

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. What creative skills are employers looking for?

Advocacy 106

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Consider having some of your talented students create a wood box do this the traditional way and then leave it in the faculty room.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

Initially, whenever individual students ran into emotional outbursts, I tried traditional methods like distributing worksheets focused on mental health and wellness. However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities. Creating space and support for students to lead from their personal experiences and teach their teachers how to meet their needs radically disrupts that traditional PD dynamic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Related: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve There is a critical need to prepare teachers to be intentional voices calling out the oppression that continues to plague our education system.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The loans made directly by a college, rather than a traditional lender, are used to pay for classes, but they don’t come with the same protections as federal student loans do. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Though they may not have the luxury of building from scratch, traditional universities could design degree pathways more like Minerva’s: interdisciplinary and project-based. I am a poster child for the English major.

Humanities 92

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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 112

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters. But it certainly has exacerbated those challenges and really highlighted and exacerbated those equity gaps.” Betsy Zorio, Vice President of Save the Children’s U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Climate advocacy group EARTHDAY.org released a “state of climate interactive map” to highlight how climate change is taught and the policy efforts happening in every state. Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Association has a long tradition of support for advancement of underrepresented groups in the discipline. The Association facilitates the work of over 50 organized sections and supports numerous standing and project committees on topics of importance to the discipline and to the political life of the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition.

Civic Engagement 141

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. “Every student is different, and ‘inclusion’ for one student may look different from others.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

High School 144

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 144

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The central goal of the Tibetan exile government’s schools is to instruct children in Tibetan language, history, and Buddhist culture, given that, within Tibet, the Chinese government limits access to traditional Tibetan monastic educat ionand criminalizes advocacy for secular Tibetan medium education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thinking of New Mexico, and OLÉ’s success at making inroads for child care teachers outside unionization, how important is it to think about other strategies apart from traditional organizing? When we started doing online organizing, we would get maybe a week’s worth of work visiting centers done in one day.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Getty Images.

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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.

Tradition 83

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As a professor, I employ inclusive teaching approaches, including the elimination of traditional comprehensive exams and opting for in-class simulations, application exercises, reflections, and even sociopolitical games as assessments of student learning. I am a social justice activist in the traditions of W.E.B.

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Political Science Social Justice Advocacy Social Science 49

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

Artifacts 111

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 111

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy. While most people will receive forms in the mail, paid Census field workers will also visit homes in remote or rural areas without reliable mail delivery or traditional mailing addresses.

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Library Education Advocacy Economics 90

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But just before the pandemic, she says she was approached by FreedomWorks, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, big political donors, and associated with the “tea party” movement in favor of libertarian ideas. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

Tutoring 140

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

Educational Technology 84

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 84

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance.

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