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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

ED Surge

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. 1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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TEACHER VOICE: “I realized that my education had occurred within a racist system that privileged Eurocentric achievements”

The Hechinger Report

Education is a tool for social justice.”. Related : NYC’s bold gamble: Spend big on impoverished students’ social and emotional needs to get academic gains. Currently, I am implementing alternatives to traditional behavior management systems, such as more frequent and open parent contact. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In late 2017, she was laid off. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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Does Solving Inequality in Education Mean Embracing ‘Birth Equity’?

ED Surge

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. And the problem may be getting more severe. A recent study has shown a rise in “maternal care deserts” —areas without access to adequate maternal care—even more strongly linking the location of birth to access to care.

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