ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district's detracking attempt.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To understand implementation challenges, Project Unicorn —a coalition of 18 organizations collaborating to support and promote the use of data interoperability in education—launched the annual School System Data Survey (SSDS) in the spring of 2021.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7 Discusses Neanderthal fire usage, including combustion structures related to tar production. Anastasakis, K., & Van Hoesel, A. Fire among Neanderthals: Contexts, methods, and future directions. In The Last Neanderthals: Behavioral Complexity in Transition , pp. 147–165. Leierer, L.,

Archaeology 98

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

State Evaluations Reveal Gaps in Civics Education In 2021, The Thomas B. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. Communication & Engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Surgeon General issued an advisory warning of a youth mental health crisis in December 2021, following a declaration earlier that fall of a “national emergency in child and adolescent mental health” by a coalition of pediatric groups. Connecticut, meanwhile, permits K-12 students to take two mental health days per year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Around 5,600 MNPS staff members are responsible for six to 12 families each and could help refer families to counselors and social workers if needed, or arrange food supplies and technology supports. Read more at K-12 Dive: 4 ways schools are enhancing parent relationships in the return to classrooms.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

There are plans to expand these gateways to all of the district’s K-8 and middle schools through the course of the next year. This summer, the district hosted Camp Cajon 2021 —two, three-week sessions of free summer school, which engaged approximately 5,000 students in the community.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent. college and university.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. The governor tapped into leftover K-12 funds to match New Orleans recent large investments. About 13% of children who qualified for assistance were accessing the program in 2021.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2023

In this final post, Michigan Virtual outlines how and why they created an LMS guide for K-12 in collaboration with other educators. In this blog post, I share a resource created for school leaders — a free guide to selecting an LMS for K-12 — and the rationale and process that went into creating it.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, dean of the university’s School of Education, agrees that paying aspiring educators for their time and service with K-12 students “eases the pressure” on them to find other part-time jobs.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Not only were preschoolers in public programs being expelled at more than three times the rate of older K-12 students, but discipline was starkly divided by race: Black preschoolers were twice as likely to be kicked out as white children. In child care programs, the numbers were even higher.

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Digital Promise

JULY 13, 2021

Fortunately, educators can leverage learnings from some leading-edge K-12 districts who have developed thoughtful processes for making edtech decisions despite limited available evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

million students don’t have reliable internet connectivity in their homes, according to Digital Bridge K-12, an initiative from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit. “So, the majority of their kids — almost a hundred students —missed out on this opportunity to engage with their teachers, because they simply didn’t have the tools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. More recently, advocates have presented child care as a public good and a right, similar to K-12 education. Now, an offshoot of that recommendation has come to fruition. dollars) over five years to the country’s first federally-funded child care system.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

“ Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View K-12 Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic, ” a national survey (conducted in January 2021) produced for Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project by Langer Research Associates, documents the broad range of difficulties in K-12 teaching and learning as perceived (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

In 2021, there was a sudden shift in how school board meetings around the country were conducted: Routine meetings turned heated, with angry community members often accusing educators of teaching their kids about critical race theory without their knowledge. Subscribe today!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 In 2021, the latest publicly available data, 79.5 That tracked with national figures, which showed that roughly 23 percent of teachers were male in the 2020 to 2021 school year. Low college enrollment rates for men have also drawn attention to men’s struggles. Thomas asks.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. Download Promethean’s full report, The State of Technology in Education 2021/2 , and talk to the experts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid. The district put $1.6

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Edthena

AUGUST 25, 2021

It’s August, which means … back-to-school season! Resources for teachers abound, but who has the time to sift through them all? Here are our top picks for important August reads and resources for teachers and school leaders, to get the school year off to a great start.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s October, but we’ve rounded up resources for teachers and coaches that are anything but scary! This edition of noted content for educators includes how to lead more effective teacher PD, address teacher stress, and create a classroom culture of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? Mr. Mayor, ensure that all K-12 students who opted for remote learning have the opportunity to return to classrooms before the end of the year, and take ownership of your original, flawed decision to not consider doing so.

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

It’s July and hopefully, educators are resting and recharging. For those looking to continue their personal and professional learning on their own, we have some top July reads and resources.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The two school leaders presented at the Learning Forward 2021 Annual Conference in Dec. 2021 and shared how they use video to build teacher leadership pathways. Suzanne McGahey, a K-12 social studies coordinator, noted that there are many methods for supporting teachers wanting to leave the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

For example: Over 1 in 5 Americans believe that Asian Americans are at least partially responsible for the pandemic — a percentage that has increased since 2021. Nationally, in 2021, U.S. From music such as K-pop and Mando-pop to Asian-produced TV shows and movies, our cultures are gripping the imaginations of my students.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

LVP partnered with Shmoop to pilot the tool with school districts that were managing both virtual and in-person learning during spring 2021. Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View K-12 Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic. Digital Promise. Digital Promise: Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

She increased her own wages from $8 an hour to $12, which she said gave her enough extra money to buy her own kids clothes and pay monthly bills on time. But then ARPA funding expired last year, and she was forced to make hard decisions just to maintain her new hourly rate of $12. She made repairs and improvements to the building.

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Education K-12 Middle School Humanities 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

In a July 2021 report , the two proposed blurring the last two years of high school with the first two years of college to modernize our secondary and post-secondary education and training systems and connect them “more tightly to the world of work and careers,” according to Vargas who, with Hartung, was among the report’s authors. “To

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

A law passed in Idaho in 2021 not only required all districts to teach reading using “evidence-based” instruction, it also required K-12 teacher preparation programs housed at any state institution of higher education to prepare teachers according to that reading plan. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, I wrote a movie. As I began working on this film about successful Black men and women returning to their college alma mater, the data from students currently in K-12 indicated that, without an intervention, college reunions would have fewer Black attendees in the future.

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