The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce. Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2017

The same is true for literacy and math coaches, who normally visit classrooms to provide real-time professional development for teachers. schools were about 64,000 teachers short during the 2015-16 school year, with shortages most common in special education, math, science and bilingual education. I’ve never seen it this dire.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Drawing on Ascend , the Aspen Institute’s two-generation approach toward economic security, CSIU formed a task force which they called “Team ASCENT” (Advancing Social Capital through Enhanced Networks and Training) to take a cross-sector, data- and human-centered approach. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Job-Embedded Professional Development. Above all, it is most important to remember that effective professional-development programs are job-embedded and provide teachers with five critical elements (Darling-Hammond et al.,

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

They thought education could be an economic driver in the state and started knocking on doors of individuals and organizations to discuss the possibility of making education the center of an innovation cluster.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In addition to the economic consequences of a glut of college graduates, many also decry the personal, social and financial costs created by a system that creates intense pressure for students to get into a top college. Parents also pay a high price for top test rankings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

That’s why Murray said Jackson is also stepping up efforts to hire new teachers by increasing starting pay and offering curriculum support and professional development opportunities. She was widowed in 2013, and lost her son in 2015. So, when she heard veteran teachers were needed, going back to school seemed ideal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

The traditional way is more convenient — for some, says Dan Condon, associate director of professional development at the Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center in Colorado. We’re leaving a lot of things out — we acknowledge that,” he says, explaining that their approach prioritizes depth over breadth.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When McWilliams first took the Praxis in March of 2015, she easily passed the reading portion but failed the math and writing sections. Consisting of four to five different tests, Praxis exams measure would-be teachers’ content knowledge in subjects that include math and reading. On her next try, she passed writing, but still failed math.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

From the early stages of improving our understanding of the science and issues (Knight & Adger, 2015; Knight et al. Underneath the main output, you see eighteen different ‘sliders’ which represent actions that could be taken to bring about social, economic and environmental change. Doing this is difficult. Dunlop et al.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. Nationally, black students who have the same family income as white students are much less likely to graduate from high school.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. We know teachers work incredibly hard to create a welcoming, calm, safe space. They are not available for homeschools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

The seeds for the HISD takeover were planted in 2015, with the passage of a state law mandating that the TEA step in if any school in a district were rated academically unacceptable for five consecutive years. The reason I say Houston might be pointing in this direction is because the Houston school district itself is not struggling.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teacher pay continues to lag behind the pay of other college-educated workers, according to a 2016 report published by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. The report found: “In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages were 17.0 Incentivizing professional development with money is also questionable.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

“Building talent pipelines that meet the demand for effective teachers and principals is arguably New Orleans’ most pressing citywide challenge in coming years,” wrote researchers in a 2015 report about the state of New Orleans public schools. There’s the realization now that our schools are adequate but they’re not great.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

The $60,000 to $75,000 annual fee for the first four years (it then goes down), covering professional development, strategic planning, coaching and resources, can be an obstacle. About 80 percent are African-American, and 45 percent are classified as “economically disadvantaged.”. It was noisy and standing room only.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

However, by taking it upon ourselves to create a more inclusive and equitable education experience for students regardless of where they start in life, we can help reduce poverty over the long term by helping poor children become more productive during adulthood and creating economic growth in the process.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Utah launched a program in 2015 that uses work-based learning to teach high school students about the state’s aerospace industry. Such jobs made up about 49 percent of the state’s jobs in 2015. Next year, the state will ramp up professional development opportunities for work-based learning coordinators, state officials said.

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