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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession. And current shortages are finally beginning to spur an embrace of broader conceptions of teaching.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

A PhD candidate at Harvard University tilts his screen while teaching an online class from his dorm. But while all of this is widely being referred to as online higher education, most of it isn’t. “The Credit: (Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images). The pace of adoption of those tools will accelerate.”.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At least seven states, from Arkansas to Wisconsin, now require teachers to be trained in the Orton-Gillingham teaching approach and use it to help students with dyslexia read and write better. There’s no litmus test for dyslexia and education experts say the diagnosis covers a range of reading problems.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough. The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. “I

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Why hasn’t innovation in teaching and learning cascaded to underserved populations? The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But both are in regions where a drop in the number of traditional-age undergraduates is looming , according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. to teach undergraduate and graduate programs. The satellite campus in Austin of Fairfield University’s Egan School of Nursing. “Our

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

When Florida opened the door 17 years ago for two-year colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees, they expanded rapidly into a host of new areas: business, nursing, teaching, and more. Local labor markets drove the policy change, as communities sought to train more adults to enter fields with worker shortages. AP Photo/J Pat Carter).

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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. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. The new federal law, called the Every Student Succeeds Act, provides money and guidance for states to pursue new models of education. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. That’s $13.3

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post Which is how the former head of finance at the British Post Office and active co-founder of a startup in the hot field of renewable energy came to be teaching finance, banking and financial management to undergraduates at his hometown alma mater, Sheffield Hallam University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When colleges and boot camps team up, the colleges typically just put their name on the programs while the boot camp companies recruit students, develop curricula and teach classes. But with a decade-long gap in her resume, she struggled to lock down anything beyond a gig at a local yoga studio and occasional substitute teaching jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Carole Quine teaches the highest-level remedial English course at BCCC. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Using computers and online resources in the classroom is part of a growing trend in education. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy , where I serve as a research analyst, investigated the country’s strongest models — and lessons learned from abroad — and released a policy report late last month. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

With almost all college and university students and faculty forced online during the pandemic lockdowns, researchers could take advantage of what became essentially an unprecedented randomized trial to study whether and how well online teaching works. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.). Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

” Related: Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I I love it, because teaching a whole group of kids, 30 kids at a time, some pretty rigorous math skills is really hard,” he said. They need teachers to present multiple ways of understanding one concept.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

According to a 2018 Education Next poll , parents rate 15 percent of their local school’s teachers as “unsatisfactory,” which suggests that over the course of their children’s education, parents are likely to face the problem of an unsatisfactory teacher. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2019

Many states have financially neglected rural community colleges, which don’t usually have the local tax base or private money available to urban and suburban schools, said Stephen Katsinas, a University of Alabama political science professor who directs that school’s Educational Policy Center. People leave where their roots are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Is change forthcoming? Related: OPINION: Should plaintiffs in a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

That’s why there’s considerable excitement about the free program bringing AP physics to Mississippi this school year, courtesy of the Global Teaching Project , a Washington D.C.-based based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You’re not supposed to close and leave students in the lurch,” said Kevin Kinser, a Pennsylvania State University education professor who heads Penn State’s education policy studies department. Jim Rawlins, admissions director, University of Oregon. But we’re not set up to deal with mass closures.”. It’s the worst of all worlds.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). The disputes over whether a teacher needs a license to teach are not over.

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The Hechinger Report

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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