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JANUARY 31, 2022

There is a robust agenda for academia’s future, including code sharing, registered reports and accessibility. Even as the postsecondary industry opened its doors to become a more-accessible system for students, it locked up the research conducted by its faculty and staff. The public, less so. The answer is likely to be “yes.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Public Schools report covering the 2021-22 academic year. It uses survey responses from principals of nearly 2,700 P-12 schools to take the pulse of myriad issues that affect students and how schools operate. million of emergency school funds were spent on mental health support for students and staff. Gilmore says.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

The steepest declines are at public two-year and four-year institutions, the more-affordable options that serve larger percentages of poor, working-class and minority students. In those years, the public supported higher ed equally for both its private and public benefits—on the whole, we were a nation that honored higher education.

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MAY 1, 2024

When pueblos in New Mexico looked into running fiber into Jemez Day School, a K-6 school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, they were launching a complicated process. Upgrading the school’s connection meant jumping through hoops, even though there was fiber across the street. Early on, the U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Lately, he’s in good spirits, in part because he feels ownership over how he spends his time after school. Being given a space to explore keeps Christian engaged.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

trillion infrastructure bill into law, our nation is poised to make historic investments in its highways, public transit, railways, airports, ports, water systems, broadband networks and electric grid. When school districts spend months implementing a new edtech tool, they often learn a great deal—and they learn it the hard way.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

When families are dealing with not having basic necessities, school just isn’t a priority,” says Susanne Terry, coordinator for homeless education services in the San Diego County Office of Education. For students struggling to simply show up for school, this can translate to poor access to the basics.

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MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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JUNE 2, 2022

June 4th-8th: Buy a K-8 School License. Usually, you get one desk copy for each grade level included in your school license. What is a school license? As many as the school wants. Benefits of a School License. provide an overarching curriculum map for using technology in your school.

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JUNE 14, 2023

For thousands of high school students who are graduating, this time of year is all about looking to the future — namely, preparing for college in the fall. States with 1,000 or more undocumented high school graduates are shown. estimates that 120,000 undocumented students are graduating from high school this year. Source: FWD.us

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JUNE 2, 2023

Why is it important to preserve historical school video recordings? How about: to preserve old recordings that are degrading with time to make them more accessible to potential viewers and researchers to increase their lifespan But what’s the best way to do this?

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MARCH 15, 2021

Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools shows.

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MAY 4, 2023

After all, if a science student hasn’t spent time actually producing reactions in a lab, Austin says, “they’re probably not going to be taken seriously out in the public,” limiting their success in graduate school or in the job market. They are courageous to return to school. I all but failed chemistry in high school.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. households didn't have broadband access.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). But really, it's not just a one-sided thing.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. School was once thought of as a safe place for students and educators, but many students, staff and families have lost a sense of safety and security. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Six months out from when it broke the internet, ChatGPT — and its numerous clones and adaptations — have drummed up great interest, and concerns, for teachers, school leaders and districts. They’re going to figure it out before we figure it out,” says Tracy Daniel-Hardy, director of technology at the Gulfport School District in Mississippi.

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MARCH 25, 2022

The ritual of handing students a written hall pass probably hasn’t changed much since schools were first created—unless you count the invention of laminating machines that made paper passes more durable. The public school system in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, is among those that have adopted digital hall passes.

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APRIL 9, 2024

A VR experience created by students at The New School in New York City is designed to take viewers to an almond farm in California and illustrate the effects of pesticides on bee colonies. The goal is not just to create a virtual field trip to a farm that students in a classroom might not have access to.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

In a recent discussion with global education leaders , we took a hard look at some of the inequitable practices that continue to plague our schools. The conversation was refreshing, raw and relevant to the current situation in our public institutions, highlighting major issues that may not have been considered previously.

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MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. When schools reopened in 2021, Burkiett and her team decided to roll out the program across the district for students in kindergarten to third grade. So we were pretty happy with Amira,” Burkiett says.

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MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. For Mulcahy, UDL means “making sure that all of the students have an accessible way to learn.”

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JANUARY 31, 2023

The ratio of students to school counselors in the United States continues to narrow, with data released this month showing it has reached the lowest point since 1986, the year the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) began tracking student-to-counselor ratios. And it didn’t happen overnight.

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JULY 14, 2023

Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch. This contentious relationship between New Orleans students and school lunch wasn’t always the case. When I pull up to the school parking lot, the scenery changes.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This fall, students and staff at close to 200 public schools in Wake County, N.C., Schools were closed on November 12 for a “ day of reflection and preparation.” That same day, schools in Cumberland County, N.C., Schools in Battle Creek, Mich., But accessing mental health care remains a challenge for many.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Education is no longer contained within classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Learning isn’t confined to the eight hours between the school bell’s chimes or the struggling budget of an underfunded program. How do you do it, in your school? It didn’t work. You can’t have one without the other.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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MAY 19, 2023

Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Open Library Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. These students are also at an increased risk for chronic absenteeism, missing 10 percent — or more — of the school year.

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MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the last 10 years — particularly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — schools and colleges have had to adapt and evolve their approaches to learning and collaboration, opening the door to the “learn from anywhere” world. The main three are: public, private, and hybrid clouds. What Is Cloud Storage?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We understand that many schools around the world will be taking substantial steps to utilize this new technology, not just in handwritten digital note-taking but from bringing generative AI on board as a deputy head to recruiting directors of artificial intelligence. A Strategic Roadmap for Integrating Gen AI Into Schools 1.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, I will be sharing Part 3 of the series I've been writing about how every school needs an AI policy now, including the empirical evidence in Pa rt 1 and the Generative AI examples in Part 2. Summarize and Access Web Content First, inside Edge, you'll want to toggle on the feature that lets you access web content inside the browser.

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MARCH 6, 2024

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning students proficient in the language within one year. That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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JUNE 14, 2023

In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that as of 2021, more than one-third of high school students, including nearly three in five teen girls, had persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Mental health is a vital public health issue.

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