The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2025

Colorado rolled out its free, universal pre-K program in the fall of 2023. Something is going wrong and there is a concern that its a cousin of the attendance problem that has kept students out of K-12 classrooms. And quality in pre-K programs across the nation remains uneven.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work?

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MAY 9, 2025

When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions. When building up edtech resources for any learning environment, whether it be a K-12 school district, institution of higher education or professional development, there is a lot to consider.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Use Pre-Built Pipelines: For K-12 districts and other postsecondary institutions lacking resources to build their own infrastructure, access open standards frameworks, such as Learning Data Reference Architecture (LDRA).

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. For many rural families especially, the barriers of paying for and getting their children to a pre-K program are just too great.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Zoom was even free for K-12 schools for a time. Under pressure from the end of federal relief money and declining student enrollment, some K-12 school districts now have to make tech cuts. At the end of September, federal relief dollars for K-12 schools are scheduled to sunset , though the U.S. The result?

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Yet few are likely to grow up and establish careers in technology. Federal data shows that K-12 schools with high percentages of Hispanic students offer fewer STEM courses than schools with lower proportions of Hispanic kids.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Blair Levin, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro , formerly of the Federal Communications Commission, says that the government has effectively connected schools to what they need for internet access, leaving homes the next frontier of the digital divide in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2020

“Our team in the Special Education Department continues problem solving issues and concerns from parents and guardians,” Northshore spokeswoman Lisa Youngblood Hall wrote in an email as reported by The Seattle Times on March 9. If schools can do that, that would be great,” the governor said during a March 12 news conference.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And nowhere is this conversation more relevant than in K-12 education, where AI holds the promise of revolutionizing how teachers teach and students learn. This will require action from all sides — policymakers, education leaders and education technology developers themselves.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S. after COVID-19.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Sheliya then brokered an agreement between local government officials and Airbnb to publish more data on the effectiveness of these types of programs in the city. Educating for American Democracy: offers an interactive roadmap for using an inquiry model when teaching civics and history.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

Below, you’ll find our 10 most popular early childhood stories from the last 12 months, which can loosely be divided into two camps. So this year, for the first time, we’re bringing you a list of the stories that resonated most with you, our readers. In his essay, Lee explores why building inclusive, accessible pathways is key.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Will the government continue to subsidize the monthly cost or not? We initially thought it would be a domestic K-12 service, but we're finding this massive proliferation of use cases that go well beyond K-12 and the United States. And even once the last mile is connected, then the question of affordability remains.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

For instance: Lake’s organization, a national research and policy center that’s associated with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, released a report this spring that looked at K-12 teachers’ use of virtual learning platforms, adaptive learning systems and chatbots.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

The pay scale is getting closer to the K-12 professional pay scale — not that we pay our K-12 teachers enough, we need to do more there. But at the very least, we want to make sure our early childhood educators have that level of professional pay that allows them to support themselves. It obviously didn't.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. I know the Texas Education Agency didn’t involve any of our members to ask what they thought about it,” he says, “and apparently they didn’t ask many parents either.” 20 years ago as a student.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We’re in a unique moment in education funding. The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We now have the potential to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million students in public K-12 schools in the United States who qualified for special education services. In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 Unfortunately, we’re not alone in this reality. It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

All of these points are true, but they fall short of explaining why the arts truly belong in every student’s K-12 curriculum. Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. In Standing Rock, for instance, she says children who attend a program with Lakota language instruction are better prepared for pre-K, and their parents are more engaged.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we can see from recent news coverage of Black students being suspended or reprimanded for their hair, K-12 schools continue to perpetuate racial discriminatory practices, which adversely impacts Black students' ability to feel a sense of belonging in their school communities. The issue is not Black hair. It’s (Not) Just Hair!

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

The challenge for using the approach in a K-12 setting will be making sure all the data being fed to students by the chatbot is up-to-date and accurate, says James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech. James Wiley, a vice president at the education market research firm ListEdTech.

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ED Surge

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.” deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

This report shows that there are almost 121,000 K-12 school counselors in the country — the most ever since we began tracking this in 1986. We're making progress, and we're fortunate that states and the federal government have provided funding to ensure these professionals can be in schools. So I will give it a solid C+ or B-.

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