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In each of these situations—and many more—the federal government makes possible the collection, analysis and dissemination of information that would otherwise not flow. When the federal government does this, it acts not as a regulator or as a funder, but as an information aggregator and distributor.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Things Can Go Terribly Wrong Idahos conservative legislature generally favors deregulation and a free-market approach, believing that most industries can govern themselves better than any public entity can. If approved, and barring a governors veto, it would become law July 1. Thats their logic behind House Bill 243 as well.

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MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Burdman thinks that the best way to solve the problem of slumping math scores is tackle it at all levels of government district, state and federal in the same way that officials addressed third-grade reading scores some years ago.

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MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. Ecosystem Evolution We need to build an ecosystem that works best for all educators and supports learners. The growing reliance on data and analytics to help build that ecosystem.

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MARCH 5, 2025

Schools, districts and community organizations that serve the most marginalized and underresourced students should collaborate to prioritize a forward-thinking and responsible approach to incorporating new digital literacies and skills into the educational curriculum and structure of public school learning.

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MAY 31, 2022

And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says. There are two main reasons for optimism in the education technology sector specifically: the sustainability and evolution of business models and an abundance of talent. Just in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

This includes business training, but also compliance (such as licensing ratios for every age group), participation in state and federal government programs (such as the federal food program and the state subsidy program ), employee engagement and family engagement.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This will require action from all sides — policymakers, education leaders and education technology developers themselves. When it comes to AI, we can’t afford the same wait-and-see approach many governments took to regulating social media. I now also chair Ireland’s first A.I.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. January’s update was published alongside guidance concerning the use of technology for helping students with disabilities.

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MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. The federal government would eventually give schools almost $190 billion to reopen and to help students who fell behind when schools were closed.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2024

Now the federal government is considering changing the rules in ways that would essentially make it harder for colleges to automatically bill students for books as long as they allow students to opt out. The White House signaled support for the possible rule change.

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MAY 1, 2024

But tribal leaders are sometimes wary of doing that: “Making sure there's the true intent of helping build our infrastructure” matters, Mills says, “just because of the historical trauma and federal government and those kinds of things that have happened to our people.” Recently, there has been federal investment. No internet.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Department of Education. Successful networks also include robust participation from state and local government and a range of community groups. You can learn about some of the partners who engage in EdClusters in the graphic below. Certainly, schools and communities have been partnering in various ways for years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

These descriptions of education technology research may comfort educators and parents looking for ways to mitigate the devastating effects of lost learning time because of the coronavirus. But they are all misleading. We’re doing this because if we weren’t, nobody would be doing it.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT) government entities, with K-12 organizations representing the largest and fastest-growing segment. Over the past 20 years, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has been committed to its mission of fostering collaboration and information sharing across 16,000 U.S.

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JULY 23, 2024

It’s also a place where culture wars are playing out, which teachers say are a mental strain — the governor is suing the federal government over expanded Title IX guidelines that protect transgender students from discrimination.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“There is no other technology in their lives,” Wolf noted, pointing to studies of a trial showing that children in Malawi not only loved using the program, they made significant gains in math and literacy using the program, despite pandemic disruption.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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JUNE 19, 2019

We do this through free workshops, diversity scholarships, and partnerships with local government and workforce development agencies to offer funding for low-income workers and unemployed residents. What do you find exciting about working at the intersection of adult learning and education technology (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

With more and more educational technology tools on the market, schools and universities , the government , and parents all want to know, Which products are effective for which teachers and students?

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It Many home visiting programs have been around for decades.

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ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2024

Colleges that depend on OPM investments to build, deliver and market remote programs won’t be very happy if proposed government rulings take effect, since it will require that they quickly come up with capital on their own. government is worried it will go belly up soon, leaving students stranded. What’s in Store?

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JANUARY 9, 2023

They were also concerned that access to Facebook data by third parties like government and police agencies may violate laws meant to protect student privacy. It seems obvious how students would be affected by something like bullying.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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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.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said. Creating this rule is one way to give the government more oversight, she said. “The concern I have with giving the money to the semiconductor businesses to open up child care is: They’re not in the business of child care.

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