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MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. The foundation is also seeking to expand the use of outcomes-based contracts beyond tutoring to education technology and software.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Related: Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education. The benefit to institutions seems fairly clear,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the think tank New America. “It Educational technology: $16 billion.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Support Network Engagement: Authentically involving youth in education policy creates opportunities for students of color to establish a supportive structure of peers and young leaders. Creating roles for students in education policy discussions can help ensure the system is serving the community's best interest.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

American schools have a long-running, unrequited love affair with education technology. State laws and directives are littered with rules, regulations and routines that make this challenging for schools and districts.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Greater levels of representation benefit students from all different backgrounds,” study co-author Nicholas Bowman, a professor of educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa, told EdSurge. That was true for all students — and especially true for the minority and first-generation students themselves.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Liu, who is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, surmises that taking a class in computer science helps some students overcome popular misconceptions about coding. “It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. The previous law didn’t prevent states from pursuing these methods, said Joseph South, director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

What stands out for me is how popular education trends, from social-emotional learning to school discipline, aren’t standing up to scientific scrutiny. The research evidence for education technology continues to be weak. I look forward to continuing this conversation with you next year.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. The post How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it? appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 19, 2024

On the Hook Accessibility has become a major focus area in education policy. Department of Education flagged “access” as one of three major technological divides — access, design and use — that can prevent students from fully engaging with education. The revised national edtech plan from the U.S.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. Using long-term debt to pay for technology that may be obsolete in a couple of years, he says, is “like taking out a mortgage to buy groceries.”

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Children under age 5 are physically more susceptible to the negative effects of extreme heat, explains Allie Schneider, an early childhood education policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank that recently published a report on the topic. Our sector is not prepared for this.

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MAY 10, 2016

As a former educator and school information technology leader, he was inspired to create a solution. More than ever, how to measure the success – or lack thereof – of educational technology is being debated among educators, policy wonks and academics. They were data rich but decision poor,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Abbie Lieberman, a senior policy analyst on the early and elementary education policy team at New America, a Washington, D.C.-based Her colleague Laura Bornfreund, director of New America's early and elementary education policy team, put it more bluntly. There has never been a U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2017

In breakout groups, summit attendees tackled key questions such as: How might we ensure K-12 district and higher education technology decisions are based on evidence? How might we better crowdsource research and product reviews to support decision makers? How might we develop a mechanism for funding research on edtech products?

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MARCH 7, 2017

The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “You

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JUNE 7, 2016

The report , from the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, found encouraging, but mixed, results for a California-based charter school network and a Maryland school district that used this math program, made by DreamBox Learning. and 3 percentile points better on standardized assessments.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer. Jing Liu, assistant professor in education policy at the University of Maryland College Park, says that he and his fellow researchers were surprised by their findings.

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MAY 5, 2022

He’s director of editorial and education policy at the university’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which released its own analysis of College Scorecard data earlier this year. Ever heard of naval architects?

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. You can only ask the teacher because the teacher actually has a heart.”.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. How do we make sure that our students have access in this changing world?” she asked. “If

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Bearing the Bandana After student leaders in West Virginia decided to adopt the Green Bandana program, they worked with the director of behavioral health programs for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission to set up training opportunities for students at universities throughout the state.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

“About three quarters of teachers say that they experienced frequent job-related stress, compared to about a third of the general population of working adults,” Elizabeth Steiner, an education policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, told EdSurge in a spring interview.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” These days he’s often weighing in on education policy issues in his personal newsletter. are losing pace with those of other nations and need significant reform.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Norah Laughter, a senior from Russellville, Kentucky, is a member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a student-led organization committed to youth development, participatory research and education policy. In 2020, she helped the organization conduct a survey of Kentucky middle and high school students about their pandemic experiences.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Making College the Default While SUNY has called its plan “automatic admission,” it is more so a “direct admission” plan, according to Taylor Odle, assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied these plans in multiple states.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, after philanthropists (including Mark Zuckerberg) gave $200 million in 2010 to reform public schools in Newark, New Jersey, student academic achievement actually declined for several years, according to the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Researchers estimate that dyslexia affects one in five individuals. Yet, it is often misdiagnosed or missed entirely. Even more common than a misdiagnosis is the likelihood that a student with dyslexia will find themself in a classroom without the resources to become a successful reader.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Although the board ultimately voted against including LGBTQIA+ identities and health needs in the standards, I noticed a pattern amongst the testifiers: almost none were classroom teachers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

The secretary addressed several education policy issues that the Biden administration has prioritized—some without much evident success so far in terms of actually advancing legislation. ought to have free universal preschool and affordable child care, Cardona said, a goal for which he has been advocating.

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APRIL 18, 2023

But neither the endorsement of powerful entities nor the enactment of new education policies assures that the push to create a skills-based education system will run like, er, clockwork. There are challenges as basic as defining what, exactly, counts as a “skill.”

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MAY 16, 2023

“If you leave it to employers to essentially figure out child care for their employees, I think that’s not going to get us where we want to be as a country,” says Laura Bornfreund, senior fellow and advisor on early and elementary education with the Education Policy program at New America, a Washington-based think tank. “I

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