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MARCH 30, 2020

Students without home internet access will likely need to go to public spaces, such as libraries and restaurants, to keep up with their coursework. Students who are living in their cars or in shelters or who otherwise don’t have homes to return to have to figure out ways around campus restrictions such as limited library hours.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

billion in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan in April 2021 to enable school districts and libraries to provide internet access and connected devices to students and educators during the pandemic. 7, districts and libraries had requested $6.4 7, districts and libraries had requested $6.4 The program received $7.17

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! Chesapeake Public Schools. Hampton Township School District. Lake Washington School District. Lynwood Unified School District. Menlo Park City School District. Orange Unified School District.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

The next step for school leaders is to focus on purchasing edtech strategically, ensuring that these tools genuinely make a positive difference in teaching and learning. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? For Highline schools — based on input from parents, data from local agencies, state guidance and the needs of the most vulnerable students in our district — we’ll be starting with all students in fully remote distance-learning. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

The Kansas City Coalition for Digital Inclusion , for instance, coordinated the efforts of local organizations, including the public library system, transportation authorities, nonprofits, and private industry, to provide emergency connectivity and technology to students and families in need. It truly has been a collaborative approach.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Nashville Public Library. Metro Nashville Public Schools English Language Office. Nashville Public Library. In 2014, the Nashville Public Library Foundation approached local adult education providers to form a learning group that could collectively envision strategies to improve services for learners.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A timeless routine, now broken by massive human failures: a raging pandemic, fires and floods fueled by climate change, and, in New York, a twice-delayed reopening debacle in the nation’s largest public-school system that is enraging parents, confusing educators and leading to increasing despair that school as we once knew it will never return.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Ensure Everyone Has a Seat and Voice at the Table, Including Students and Teachers Mendon-Upton Regional School District focused on including a wide range of voices in their edtech system development. Their team consisted of a high school student, a teacher, a library media specialist, and the technology team.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Hartford Public Schools, a Connecticut district with 39 schools, uses district-wide video coaching aligned to their larger instructional vision. Using Edthena, Hartford Public Schools captured 116 teaching videos in under a year, each tied to a specific aspect of the district’s instructional vision.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

With all of this money and technology coming into my city, how does the lack of tech resources in the public schools remain the same? In my school, many students don’t know what edtech is, let alone have access to the resources edtech could provide. But that’s not the case.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It has to be a collaborative effort,” says Mark Racine, chief information officer for Boston Public Schools. “I We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”. I think that’s what’s worked very well in Boston.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Mississippi has offered professional development for educators to learn about this approach, and the Highline Public Schools district in Washington state has equipped teachers with sample units with this approach in mind.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

But in this case, the critical fact was that the student used offensive language on school property and during a school-sponsored event. The court reasoned that it is proper for schools to uphold standards of civil speech during school activities. Pico (1982).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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Digital Promise

JULY 7, 2015

Jane is the associate superintendent for instruction at Lincoln Public Schools , Neb., a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Who are the people that enable a school system to bridge theory and practice? Baltimore County Public Schools. District of Columbia Public Schools.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

“My first job as a teacher was as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and I had third and fourth graders who were learning to read for the first time,” he says. ” Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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MARCH 16, 2020

In Los Angeles and Chicago, where schools closures were previously announced, the rates of poverty are even higher. In addition, museums, recreation centers, libraries and other places that offer alternatives to schooling will also be closed, as they have been in Seattle and other parts of the country hit hard by the virus. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. Students work in MAP Accelerator inside the library at B. Credit: Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent. Published with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2019

It provides access to vast libraries of content, which can be curated to reflect the interests and cultures of diverse classrooms. A Chicago native and public school graduate, Phyllis Lockett is the founder and CEO of LEAP Innovations , a national nonprofit that helps schools and teachers personalize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But many school districts ramped up their outreach to these students during the crisis. The Tulsa Public Schools district in Oklahoma deployed a range of tools to support ELL students, including boosting live translation capabilities and using language simplification software to support reading.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

and Puerto Rico have closed all public schools, with few teachers prepared to move to a virtual learning environment and even fewer parents ready to homeschool their children. Rodrigues’ idea is to create “a public broadcasting/ethnic media push with a simple web form and hotline number to reach all parents with information.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As a philanthropic funder, I traveled the country supporting schools, districts and communities, but no matter where I visited, there was one consistent storyline: Schools that predominantly served black and brown students seemed to have the least resources and were the most underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2018

It’s technically summer vacation, but about 6,000 kids from Baltimore City Public Schools will spend at least a portion of their break in a school building. Related: Baltimore summer school does the seemingly impossible – the kids actually want to be there. They’re more like summer camp, but held in public schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

While school districts wrestle with spending COVID relief funds amid staff shortages and supply chain issues , there often aren't readily available funds for projects that teachers feel increase their student’s mental health and their ability to transition back to school. Across the country, 87 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. Washington teaches a class in 1916. Black students certainly need to have role models of smartness.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Even then, many Southern school districts stalled for time, some waiting until the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in Swann v. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The city is facing a series of budget cuts to K-12 schools, libraries and police , among other programs, in part, Mayor Eric Adams has said, because of rising costs to care for an influx of homeless migrants. “But this is a point where we have to look where all revenues are coming from and where all revenues are leaking.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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