Technology access

CAST Tech is designed to feel like a cutting-edge corporate headquarters, the kind of environment in which students hope to eventually work.

Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

San Antonio is hoping career-themed schools can alleviate a worker shortage and lift graduates into well-paying jobs

High School Reform

by  Bekah McNeel  – July 16, 2018

Hakeem Bey’s laminated list of Oakland schools’ achievement data, which he uses while canvassing for Oakland REACH.

How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it?

It’s tough to help a child succeed when school “report cards” are full of confusing jargon

Future of Learning

by  Jenny Abamu  – June 26, 2018

How students learn from super green schools that use zero energy

Finding “vampires,” angling solar panels, tracking cafeteria waste – all become lessons

Future of Learning

by Chris Berdik  – June 6, 2018

Future of Learning

The factory model of education is out. Now more schools are personalizing learning and trying to motivate students by empowering them in the classroom. Will this improve academic outcomes? Will it close achievement gaps? The Hechinger Report explores the innovations at the core of today's cutting-edge schools.

Some teachers are trading red grading pens like this one for video feedback. There’s evidence that video grading does more to motivate students than written edits — and it can also save teachers time.

COLUMN: Has video killed the red grading pen?

Teachers are experimenting with video feedback as a replacement for traditional written mark-ups

Higher Education

by  Daisy Yuhas  – May 23, 2018

Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga.

COLUMN: We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

Colleges that allow their students to also start businesses give them a boost

Higher Education

by  Andre Perry  – May 1, 2018

In an effort to get more girls at Red Bank to participate in the cybersecurity challenge, teacher Mandy Galante, center, recruited girls from nontech classes, including a dozen from a creative writing class. “We want to get the girls who never even thought of doing this,” she said.

Jobs in cybersecurity are exploding: Why are women locked out?

How high schools are trying to attract girls to this lucrative tech field

Map to the Middle Class

by  Sarah Gonser  – April 13, 2018

Schools prove soft targets for hackers

Cybersecurity is a growing concern as schools collect an increasing amount of data on students.

Future of Learning

by  APM Reports  – April 9, 2018

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A new research project aims to figure out why particular ed tech initiatives succeed or fail. Students in a Chicago charter school work on tablets during class.

Don’t ask which ed tech products work, ask why they work

A new research venture aims to help schools find the best educational technologies for their circumstances

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – February 21, 2018

Cornell eighth-grader Jada Jenkins uses a hand controller to communicate with other students and navigate through a forest in the Voyage virtual field trip.

How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms

Now is the time for experiments, not huge investments, says professor

Future of Learning

by  Eleanor Chute  – February 1, 2018

Internet access in schools: E-rate trends and the end of net neutrality

The federal E-rate program has increased classroom internet access, but net neutrality decision could hamper it

Divided We Learn

by  Tara García Mathewson  – December 20, 2017

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