The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In addition, the recent UNESCO report entitled “An Ed-Tech Tragedy” documented vast inequality from pandemic-related reliance on technology during remote online learning, and concluded that lower-tech alternatives such as the distribution of schoolwork packets or delivering lessons via radio and televisionmight have been more equitable.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Then came the pandemic and even steeper drops that “show no signs of recovery from 2020” as documented by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and other sources. It’s been fascinating to hear from university and government leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world who are all excited about this topic.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Yet researchers and nonprofit and government leaders are calling on colleges to think bigger, beyond their own students, to consider how they can lend their expertise and resources to make a difference off campus, too.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education? The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. The C3 Framework was released in 2013.

Social Studies 115

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

American History 134

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In the aftermath of the fire, impacted students were inspired to conduct a service-learning project and document what happened to wildfire victims. Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” The more we disclose the use of AI and the purpose, the more we uplift everybody in the conversation,” Dirkin says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. Gale and children working at a raised garden bed.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And then our association released a document that is the guiding document for school counseling programs, on what school counselors should do to impact student outcomes. We're making progress, and we're fortunate that states and the federal government have provided funding to ensure these professionals can be in schools.

K-12 110

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 10, 2023

And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. House of Representatives’ Education and Workforce Committee is giving the approach attention. s), as well as into continuing education activities and other educational experiences.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Codified in historical documents such as Alabama Laws, 1832 , legislation restricted Black people from consuming literature, particularly literature that aided them in their liberation and affirmed their humanity. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple statewide funding sources for education technology. Over three decades, the government gave away more than 2,000 spectrum licenses to school districts and education nonprofits, primarily in urban areas.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

Middle School 111

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. In the state of California, where the women I interviewed live, an estimated quarter of parents with children under 3 years old rely on FFNs for child care.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Figuring out whether a piece of educational technology actually works isn’t easy. A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on edtech’ The federal government is starting to step in. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

If you have a known document written by somebody, you can kind of pattern their written fingerprint. How is it being used in education? And you can always run a new assignment to get a fresh “known document” of their writing later in the term. And there are tools that produce a report.

Classroom Management 132

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them.

Education 128

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

And it hasn’t been conducted because, at least so far, there’s been very little incentive for education technology providers to prove their products do what they say they do. Some could even be “transforming” education, as promised. That’s mostly because the research and evaluation necessary to find out hasn’t been conducted.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2023

A federal solution to this widespread and well-documented scourge has not emerged, though Congress came close to passing transformative legislation around child care in 2021. The national annual average price of child care in 2022 was $10,853. In some parts of the country, it can cost more than double that.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Officials in those states argue that the platform, owned by a company in Beijing, is a threat to cybersecurity, or they are concerned about spying by the Chinese government. She ended up inviting her daughter to collaborate on a research project with her about TikTok, to document the platform’s role in young people’s lives.

Teaching 113

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2022

During the 2020-21 school year, for example, the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University documented historic declines in the number of children enrolled in state-funded pre-K programs, with participation in six states decreasing by 30 percent or more.

Economics 137

Economics History Public School Education 137

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom said it identified 414 attempts to censor works and that there were documented challenges to 1,128 unique book titles. The number of attempts to censor books actually fell this year compared with last year’s 695 cases, the ALA found.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Help various sectors—K-12, higher education, employers, communities, government and industry—work together in making the shift. The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions.

Education 96

Education K-12 Government Tradition 96

ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2025

But even with a new executive order in hand, those interested in incorporating AI into schools will look to states not the federal government for leadership on how to accomplish this. Back to the States Despite President Trumps emphasis on leadership in his executive order, the federal government has really put states in the drivers seat.

Government 86

Government K-12 Leadership Human Rights 86

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Department of Educations announcement led to immediate pushback from the South Carolinians fighting to give students access to inclusive instructional materials to the freedom-of-expression advocates at organizations such as PEN America and the American Library Association (ALA).

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