Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. Still from U.S. EasternYorkSD @DPLeague #EYedge pic.twitter.com/lPQrW211EW.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The racial and socioeconomic gaps in math are stark: Only 28 percent of Black students and 31 percent Hispanic students nationwide took advanced math in high school compared with 46 percent of white students, according to a 2023 report from EdTrust. Just 22 percent of low-income students took advanced math.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Read the report here In June 2023, KnowledgeWorks and a team of learner-centered partners from across the country hosted a convening aimed at reimagining today’s assessment and accountability systems. Youth played an integral role in this convening, serving as participants, activists and leaders of change.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. North Carolina has recently made similar investments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Yet, traditional ESOL teacher certification processes are often burdensome, inflexible and financially onerous. Traditional ESOL training and certification courses are typically based on credit accumulation, focusing on academic knowledge over real time application of learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools. “Education is made for students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. Driving Question What do students, teachers, and leaders do in ‘deeper learning’ elementary and middle schools that is different from their traditional peers? Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Credit: Kirk Carapezza In this episode, hosts Kirk Carapezza and Jon Marcus break down how we even got to the point at which the traditional college admission process required students to spend time and money with no guarantee of success. I was, until 2023, the vice provost for enrollment at Cornell University in New York.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Just as Bronislaw Malinowski observed the contours of gift-giving through the Kula as “regulated by a set of traditional rules and conventions” and that the “transactions are public,” the gift of terror left in my office was acknowledged publicly, and it came to me with an expectation rooted in a specific racialized tradition.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Resources and Recommended Texts Melton Doyle, G. & & Gerene, A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They have the drive, work ethic and leadership skills to succeed in the classroom. They’ve also demonstrated the leadership skills and work ethic necessary to succeed and contribute in America’s top classrooms. On March 29, 2019, it was reported that Harvard admitted six veterans to its Class of 2023.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. The good thing for us,” he said, “is that our leadership hasn’t existed in a vacuum of false reality.”. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2023, May 23). Gardiner, B.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Callan is a cadet herself, just beginning her final year at the age of 25 and here today to earn a leadership credit. About one in 10 of this year’s entering Air Force Academy cadets is older than the traditional age, the academy reports — often returning to school after years of military service, as in Callan’s case.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I had dinner with a friend, Claudia Mendes—a former colleague in Munich—and her family around New Year’s Eve 2023, and she told me, “This city is crisscrossed by wind corridors [ Frischluftschneisen ], channeling fresh air from green spaces on higher ground to the literal down town, the lower and the hotter parts of the city.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

And the Biden administration said it aims to dedicate as much as $468 million to community schools in 2023. Our current predominant school design is akin to a traditional telephone: a simple two-way system of delivery wherein teachers teach and students learn. Community schools are more like smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

HISD leadership is a disaster…. In January 2023, the Texas Supreme Court sided with the state because of a new state law passed in 2021 clarifying that a year in which no rating is given doesn’t stop the count, among other provisions. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

According to local reporting, the campus’ “bread and butter” was non-traditional college students, including those who were looking for job changes, facing career-altering injuries or rebounding from layoffs. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting. It surrounds them.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

She was awarded a three-year contract , effective July 2023, following a probationary year. In February 2023, she and the district reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount. She wanted to make it a place less about punishment and more about connecting with kids for whom the traditional school is not a fit.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That has helped boost undergraduate and graduate enrollment in Georgia Techs Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts by 58 percent since 2019, to 1,884 students in 2023 the most recent period for which the figure is available. He purposely picked leadership instead of humanities for the name of the program, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2024

During the pandemic and through 2023, we spoke with dozens of educators across the nation. During a weeklong period in June 2023, we also surveyed more than 150 pre-K to 12th grade teachers across the U.S. to capture their pandemic experiences and understand their situations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Then, in mid-May 2023, a member of the school board told Grimes that it would not be renewing his contract, which was to end in June 2024. News & World Report.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. This gradual pattern of brain growth reflects the adaptive pressures faced by early humans and their relatives. Source: F1000Research.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

James, Professor of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill, passed away on Thursday, December 28, 2023. Their initial Institute was so well-received that the NEH repeatedly asked Professors James and Moore to run it again and, in summer 2023, they got to see its second iteration take place at Boston College.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.) Under his leadership, the BIE has secured some financial wins for its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2024

. – Javeria Salman Heath Grimes, the superintendent of Russellville City Schools in Alabama, had already received several accolades for his work with English learners when I spoke to him in June 2023 for a story on teacher apprenticeships. So I was surprised at the end of the call when he told me his contract had not been renewed.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 18, 2025

In a 2023 Pew Research survey , for example, 63% of Americans express little to no confidence in the American political system, 25% feel they are not represented by either political party, and 63% of Americans state they are not satisfied with current political candidates.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In a 2023 brief , AFL-CIO leadership encouraged these partnerships. Students from low-income homes were 30 percent less likely to be accepted at the states vocational schools in 2023 and 2024 than those from wealthier households, according to an analysis by the Boston Globe. The same, she added, is true of employers and schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

The popular secretary of education, Eliezer Ramos Pars, returned earlier this year to head the department after leading it from April 2021 to July 2023 when the governor unexpectedly asked him to resign not an unusual occurrence within the island’s government, where political appointments can end suddenly and with little public debate.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2023, President Joe Biden tried to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt, but was blocked by the Supreme Court. McMahon’s selection sparked questions about her qualifications since she has limited education, leadership experience, and it rekindles concerns about Trump’s promise to close the agency.

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