The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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 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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ED Surge

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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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

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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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

“Educated, experienced, passionate teachers aren't able to stay in this field because they literally can't afford to,” wrote a center-based teacher in Wyoming. I've got parents dropping out because they can't pay tuition, and neither can the parents that are also teachers here.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

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

APRIL 3, 2024

They’re simply products of government policies — like the decision to tie school funding to property wealth — and policies can be changed. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points.

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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 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history, European history, human geography, AP government. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. An educational institution's lifeblood is its faculty; getting their engagement early in the process is critical.

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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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ED Surge

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. The rise in mental health needs among students following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the U.S.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

and one that “established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.” The climate anxiety international survey found that “a perceived failure by governments to respond to the climate crisis is associated with increased distress” among youth. NPR called it “a first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2024

But she’s glad the government is trying to improve the process, she notes. It was still confusing. She’s still uneasy because her parents need to create a FAFSA account to finish the process. It’s another potential stumbling block. It makes students anxious, especially students with immigrant parents.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers. The most dramatic example came in May, when Chegg’s falling stock price was blamed on chatbots.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom. This will help me educate students on spotting deepfakes and discussing the possible implications. In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This unit covered the Constitutional Convention, the factions that formed in early American history, and the establishment of the American government system. Students began to think more critically about who was being represented by the Constitution, and more importantly, who was not.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Linch and her partner, who works in car insurance, make a combined household income of $120,000, which, at $10,000 per month, is 400 percent of the federal poverty level for a family of four — an amount that would usually be considered far too high to receive any sort of meaningful government subsidy. actually receive.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

Department of Education proposed regulations to increase oversight over distance education programs, including requiring additional reporting to better enable the government to monitor student outcomes. In the middle of July, the U.S. According to 2U , the Chapter 11 process started by its recent filing won’t disrupt operations.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Researchers painstakingly pieced together data from a swath of government sources and news reports, cataloging more recent data from the 2021-22 school year for some states but having to reach as far back as 2014-15 for others. For 13 states, their search yielded no data about teacher vacancies.

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

Boost curriculum and professional development: Schools can use funds to develop new curriculum materials or purchase new textbooks and other educational materials. Teachers can also use funds for professional development, including training on how to use new educational technology in the classroom.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

If you saw this question on a government form, you’d likely respond in a practical fashion, checking boxes about how the world perceives you. Dino Sabic of Chattanooga, Tenn. Photo by Kathleen Greeson for EdSurge. Who are you? Where were you born? What’s your family’s income? What’s your race? They want to grow and thrive.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

Attend student government meetings. Nunn to emphasize manual labor and student self-governance as well as academics. Students are responsible for cooking, cleaning and keeping the program functioning through a self-governance system of committees that make decisions about enrollment, curriculum and faculty.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office. Government Accountability Office found that, for example, teachers found some success mitigating learning declines among English language learners using one-on-one check-ins with students and assigning small-group work in person. And research from the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Thousands of students complained about their resulting scores, and some governments launched formal investigations. “They developed an algorithm that essentially predicted which schools would have the higher likelihood of diploma-quality graduates,” she says.

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ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount. Fortunately, he says, reinforcements are on the way. The federal investment in the MIECHV program is set to double from $400 million to $800 million annually, by 2027.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers. In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

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