A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Best of all was the fact that this service was free and stakeholders could receive information on school events, news, student accomplishments, and innovations in the classroom on their mobile devices. Do you think that you''re reaching people better now than when you relied on traditional communication tools? How do you know?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reengaging the role of government.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

To name just a few: A child’s score on a standardized test, combined with other information such as teacher observations and medical referrals, can be used to facilitate access to targeted and critical early intervention education services. Interpret test scores in conjunction with other information about individuals.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. MedCerts, which offers short-term training in industries like health care and information technology, is a large workforce training provider enrolling thousands of students annually.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Together, these partners collaborate outside of the traditional silos of sector and institution to form a network that is uniquely poised to design, implement, iterate on, and disseminate breakthrough learning practices and tools. For more information about or resources on Education Innovation Clusters, email clusters@digitalpromise.org.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. Featuring images of their namesake wind horses , lungta prayer flags are a significant symbol in Indigenous Bõn and Buddhist traditions. Affordability poses another challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Anyone who has dealt with the FAFSA knows how needlessly complicated and unreliable it can be: In the midst of back-to-back college application season for my two kids, the site kept kicking us out, then losing the previous information we’d painstakingly provided. A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Feed it a typical job description or help-wanted ad—that is to say, one that’s likely either vague or full of jargon—and its artificial intelligence-informed system spits out a new version of that text translated into the language of skills. The traditional resume? That’s the bull’s-eye.” This is why job skills are having a moment.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Census Bureau data.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. It is informal because there are no lists of questions, the ethnographer is not taking on the role of an interrogator, and it happens in the course of everyday social interactions (Agar 1980: 90).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. It’s crazy that it’s easier to search for, compare and select a hotel room or a used car online than it is to make an informed decision” about which postsecondary credentials to pursue.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report. which administers the TASC, are for-profit companies.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

But taking money from Meta to build campus-specific metaverses is just the latest in higher education’s grand tradition of letting others profit off its inventions. It’s not just bad business for higher ed, but it also runs counter to colleges’ commitment to free and open discourse.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

These include health care, cybersecurity, information technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement and utilities. Yet the number of community college students in communications technology and support programs is down by 16 percent and in information technology by 4 percent, according to the Clearinghouse.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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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. We implement a forecasting and reporting tool that aggregates data to inform solutions,” says McGrath.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These acts and gestures underscore the informal, interpersonal facets of care that are not encapsulated by the formal legal duties of guardianship. However, the government policies fail to outline practical measures, leaving a gap in the market for exploring professional standards.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Without fully informing his mother, the school district pulled him out of the regular education program and assigned him to classes focused on life skills. In the late 1960s, San Francisco school educators labeled a young African American boy named Darryl Lester mentally retarded (what we now call intellectually disabled) after an IQ test.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. Because the credentials are standardized, we can make that flow of information much more seamless across different systems.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2020

As a student in my 30s with over a decade of professional experience, I am not a “traditional” student. If we have applied for finanial aid, colleges already have our data — and so they should be able to inform us whether we are likely to be eligible for these programs. Students need more than just a reminder that schools care.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. It’s not just sit-and-get activities, where information is just sent to them.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.” It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. Onward to the next lesson!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Some regions have formal partnerships, others collaborate informally. Different governance models — from non-profits to consortiums, fiscally-sponsored initiatives to voluntary associations — fit the needs and goals of different regions. Second on our list for what makes an effective EdCluster network is supportive infrastructure.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. It’s important to inform hard-to-reach and undercounted groups and communities that the 2020 Census process can be quick, easy, and safe. You can share this information and encourage adult learners to apply. Everyone counts!

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. Among the study’s recommendations was to “consider a new model of the traditional campus food pantry that reduces concerns of social stigma” to increase the use of pantry services. The Hope Center has studied the issue extensively, and its results have been deemed valid by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

His father, Peter, an information technology expert, had been a full-time employee with benefits at the time of Keller’s surgery. Believe it or not, we can apply what we know about foundational brain development in children to inform a new system of worker protection, simultaneously aiding children and their parents.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. They must answer to government bodies for academic, financial and organizational performance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2024

Students whose parents are undocumented had special worries, including concern that naming their parents would bring immigration penalties (although the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act forbids FAFSA officials from sharing family information). Room and board at San José State, her top choice too, runs $20,971 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates. Yet at a time when universities nationwide are aggressively recruiting students like Souza, who face a myriad of obstacles traditional-aged students don’t, the kind of help she’s gotten on this campus is more of an exception than the rule.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“The services are out there, but a lot of times, parents of color just don’t have the information and resources they need to fight for them,” said Daisy Brown, Tyrone’s mother. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers. INTRODUCING ARCHAEOLOGY The São Tomé central government has no experience with archaeological research or sites. In 2020, vegetation filled the building’s main room. We were always afraid.”

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