The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As the white paper “ Taking Back Kindergarten: Rethinking Rigor for Young Learners ” discusses, a rigorous approach to kindergarten does not have to be at odds with developmentally appropriate education. Fusing academic and social development can create a remarkably rich kindergarten classroom.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Check out our Core Four white paper for a more detailed description of these elements, as well as classroom examples. One is that personalized learning always involves these core four elements - targeted instruction, data-driven decisions, flexible content, and student reflection and ownership.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 10, 2018

As we continue to progress through the 21st century we are compelled to ask whether current models of schooling are well designed for the world beyond classroom walls. In particular, it’s worth reflecting on 3 essential questions in school model design, a term we use to refer to how schools are organized to deliver instruction to students.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2014 Education Elements first introduced the Core Four, later publishing the “Core Four of Personalized Learning: The Elements You Need to Succeed” in 2016. Since its publication, this white paper has been downloaded over 3,000 times by educators across the world.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

I spoke to Aylynn as part of a visit to Pendergast with my colleagues from Imagine Learning to hear about educators’ and students’ experiences using the Imagine Learning EL (English Learner) Education curriculum. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

Across the country, individual schools and districts have been piloting personalized learning for several years with some impressive results,” according to a white paper published by Rhode Island about its efforts to personalize learning. Read more about Blended Learning.

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Education Elements

JULY 26, 2017

Thankfully, Education Elements created a 9 step process, and compiled tips and tricks from district leaders across the country in our new curriculum white paper: “Phase Three: Review, Demo, and Select Digital Content and Tools.” You can also get Phase 1 and Phase 2 if you want to catch up first.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. One journalist dubbed SNHU as the Amazon of higher education. This evaluation is called the summative assessment.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (families, local government, nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. Rest assured, this work has only just begun.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 18, 2017

Over the past six months I’ve explored hundreds of news stories, white papers, and blog posts focused on why and how leaders might foster a culture of innovation. Recently it seems that innovation is a buzzword on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Need happier employees? Need bigger profits? Need better leadership?

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

In the midst of these trends, we wanted to hear how academic innovation leaders are thinking and feeling about higher education right now. Matthew Rascoff, vice provost for digital education at Stanford University. What are they worried and excited about? What do they believe is working well, and what should change?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. But there's this new distance education thing, and if you want to keep your preferred provider status, you have to start offering that. And at their height, these for-profits educated 12 percent of all American college students. But nature abhors a vacuum.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population. Educational opportunities for our low-skilled adults are no exception.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Based on conversations with more than 20 stakeholders and education experts in New York City, the report also looks to other cities and states for lessons. In a white paper last month, the city’s education department committed to maintaining the city’s capacity of subsidized infant and toddler care.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2023

We found parents who were older, more educated and had higher incomes, and interestingly, also had older children, were more likely to identify free play as a preferred learning style. And preferences for direct instruction were highest among parents who are less educated and had a lower income. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2017

Districts across the nation are exploring a new approach to professional learning to meet the evolving needs of today’s diverse classrooms and the educators who lead them. Their guiding question was: “How can we structure the economics of micro-credentials to provide value beyond professional development to educators?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U. He says the university’s quality of education has declined, leaving the campus with “a crisis on our hands.” offered an affordable, quality education. Last fall, a white paper by O.U.’s

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. He was 19 years old at the time.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2016

Some of you know that I’m headed back to higher education (after a 4-year hiatus to keep a promise to my daughter that she could finish high school here in Ames, Iowa). I will be an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado-Denver starting in August.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In recent years, the topic has excited researchers and educators alike as a possible tool to help students face both behavioral and academic challenges by reducing anxiety and giving them a new way to handle their feelings and emotions.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 13, 2019

As any great leader pursuing innovation in education knows, having a clear “why” for pursuing the “what” of change is critical to success. We published results in both a white paper, Look Both Ways , and series of strategy modules on our Blended and Personalized Learning At Work site.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But as a new report from Project Zero ’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution. Expanding the Circle.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

But after only a few months, Foster started to have concerns about the school’s safety and the quality of the education. This woman was not interested in Montessori education,” Foster said on a recent afternoon. Related: Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education. She was really just trying to exploit it.”

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2016

Lauren Acree is the Policy and Personalized Learning Lead at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at NC State University. Micro-credentials provide educators an opportunity to take control of their professional development. The paper highlights some of our favorite submissions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And there's the tougher question: "If remote education is worth the tuition, then what is the worth of college?" What is unique, perhaps, is a model that both embraces online education materials and partnering with employers while also insisting on preserving in-person teaching and a dose of the liberal arts.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In Rhode Island, the name “ EduvateRI ” represents the efforts of committed education innovators who have been collaborating since 2012 to seed, inspire, and scale innovation across the state. The white paper synthesizes the learning of regional practitioners and experts to set Rhode Island’s vision for personalized learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

Educators play a vital role in shaping meaningful and impactful learning opportunities for students through emerging technologies like AI. These schools are working to equip educators and students with essential skills to harness the power of AI in an increasingly modern technological world.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 31, 2025

What then of the terms we use in education? But the utility of terms for many other educational difficulties are much more questionable because they are less well defined and because the interventions and strategies used to address them are not helpful and can mainly through opportunity cost even do harm. Are these useful?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And over the past few decades, educators have relied more and more on police to handle routine student discipline, with schools referring hundreds of thousands of students to law enforcement each year. Department of Education. Related: No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school.

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