Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Under her leadership, The Fund scaled its programs from serving 20 principals to nearly 300 over five years and leveraged its investments to grow several educator-serving startup organizations. “I Gupta began her career at Ashoka Innovators for the Public, where she helped select social entrepreneurs for Ashoka’s global fellowship.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. A 2020 report for the U.S. Duffield has been a longtime advocate, with a history of working on federal policy for homeless education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To solve its current problems, the organization is drawing on its original strengths: leadership and STEM. From 2019 to 2020, close to 90,000 girls earned the new Think Like a Programmer, Coding for Good and Cybersecurity badges, Striegel said. There’s a brand-new Digital Leadership badge. Troop 8274 puts that into practice.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? Give us some leadership. It’s obvious you want to be remembered fondly by the history books, but typically history only reflects well on leaders who show some capacity for assuming responsibility in the face of adversity. Be transparent.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. If we as teachers are consistently feeling like our identities are not honored, imagine how our students must feel in these spaces. Photo by RYO Alexandre / Shutterstock.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. When LCC needed a director in 2020, she jumped at the opportunity. Grace Company, kept workers in the dark about the dangers of asbestos exposure. Forest Service. You are cared for.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer of 2020, not only did my students bear witness to a catastrophic pandemic that uprooted their sense of normalcy, but they also bore witness to the power of the Black Lives Matter Movement right after the murder of George Floyd. A classroom that centers joy is a classroom that centers leadership, culture and academics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2021

Most reports about Black students’ experiences during the 2020-21 school year focused on challenges their families faced. Trust building is critical, given the history of neglect and disconnect between schools and Black families. Laura McGowan-Robinson, CEO of the Diversity in Leadership Institute, contributed to this piece.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Taskmasters” (such as some middle managers or leadership professionals) are people who supervise people who don’t need supervision. Graeber died suddenly in Italy in 2020 at the age of 59.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The Board and senior leadership worked out confidential agreements with other institutions to support our students in the event of a closure.” million between 2020 and 2022 from pandemic-related federal funds. The fundraising appeal worked – alumni donated millions of dollars. The college also received $3.5

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This particular small college has what it says is the country’s only four-year bachelor’s degree in automotive restoration, a major that combines engineering, history, business, communication, art and other disciplines. That’s an unusual ambition for a small college — which is exactly the point.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing-But You Don’t Have to Be. PublicAffairs. Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Racial Bias in Student Evaluation: The Role of Grading Scales. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Their testimony amounted to a warning, though, of what schools may face when they restart this fall: kids with a history of mental health problems whose symptoms have worsened, students who maybe experiencing anxiety or anger for the first time, children in households that have become financially precarious and those who are experiencing loss.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. A 2020 report showed that among the first adult cohort, 61 percent earned a credential or continued their studies.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2023

A view of Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, California during wildfires in September 2020. The first time it happened was in September 2020. I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. But current events continued to weigh on me. D killin’ the vibe again.” I thought I was commiserating with them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. In November, 2020, Cossaboon and the Youth For Justice students started their advocacy in their home district before taking the issue to the legislature.

Education 131

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

While they may have additional responsibilities in school, meaning greater time pressures placed upon them, mentors who are well established in their school setting also understand how to navigate relationships with their leadership, colleagues, pupils and communities. References Beutel, Denise & Spooner-Lane, Rebecca. DfE (2022).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price. Related: A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South. Voters might recognize informed leadership, if or when it appears on the campaign trail.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year. Like when we have states that say they're trying to recruit diverse educators, but [are] also telling them, “Erase yourself and your history as you're filling out that application.” So that's the number one reason.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

Understanding the recent past This has got me thinking about some lessons I’ve observed over the last year or so which have touched on late C20th history – the Fight for Rights in 1960s and 70s Britain at Key Stage 3 or the Making of Modern Britain at A Level, for example. Teaching History 135 , 50-57. References Counsell, C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.” She’s also a teacher-in-training.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, teacher accounts were abuzz with reading lists and calls to adopt culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance?

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Cultures Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 131

Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Among the initiatives in the strategy is a new GCSE qualification in Natural History to be introduced from 2025, which some teachers hope could be a focal point for teaching on climate change. Similar policy and curricula updates have been seen around the world.

Education 52

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

A lack of bilingual instructors and leadership buy-in, and the difficulty of developing a Spanish-only college-level curriculum, are some of the limiting factors that have stymied their growth, experts and university leaders say. The program began enrolling classes of 75 in 2020. Back in 2006, it started with 50 students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

Name : Sarah Cardoza Age: 29 Location : Eagle River, Alaska College : University of Alaska Fairbanks Area of study : History and secondary education Hometown : Homer, Alaska EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? History] class my senior year of high school, and my teacher was fantastic. My teacher was amazing.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

Students have tackled subjects ranging from African Politics to Women, Politics, and Political Leadership and everything in between. They’ve also tackled subjects on a more national scale, such as the 2020 United States Census. in history and brings extensive experience in higher education and academia to Wiki Education.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 9, 2024

He put us in the history. SNCC Veteran Jennifer Lawson on Laying the Groundwork for Student Activism and Black Power Jennifer Lawson talks about her time at Tuskegee University and the knowledge and history shared at Historically Black Colleges and Universities before and during the Civil Rights Movement. Then we had at that time E.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

During the Apollo program he held several important management and leadership positions, including the lead Retrofire Officer on the Apollo 13 mission. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. 2, 2020, for AIP.org. He began working for NASA 1966 immediately after graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But in the early spring of 2020, her business in shambles and bills to pay, she decided that she had no choice but to sell her house. Contreras’s entire stream of income vanished on March 22, 2020, the date by which the state asked most programs to close. It is also rooted in history. “I MEDFORD, Mass. —

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K-12 Public School Government Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The district has been operating fully in person with masks optional since the end of the 2020-2021 school year. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

All across the nation, students with senior years truncated by the pandemic are feeling a sense of loss as they try to understand what exactly it means to be part of the Class of 2020. Jarrin Rainey, 20, a 2020 graduate of Frederick A. Douglass High School , remembers his uncles pushing the family to safety in a boat.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

But like many Christian denominations grappling with historical racism , its preference throughout the 1970s and ‘80s was to ignore that history, Gross said, not to address it. The Southern Baptist Convention , Presbyterian Church in America , and the United Methodist Church have all publicly apologized for their racist histories.

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Private School K-12 Economics Public School 121

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s research arm, found 54 percent of public school districts needed to update or replace buildings. By early 2020, before the pandemic, enrollment was up for the first time in recent memory. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

High School 116

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The symbolism of a woman of color at the helm of the Department of Education would be enormous, creating pressure on school boards and states to diversify their leadership. Tyack writes in “The One Best System,” his history of American urban education. The system required subordination,” David B.

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