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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Tom Loveless, a former Brookings Institution researcher and author of a book about detracking, says that in the years after the policys adoption, assessment data shows that gaps in math achievement widened in the district. The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds.

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APRIL 23, 2019

The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors. The post Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Thomas University Provost Jeremy Moreland.

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MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia. Related: How to hire more black principals In the wake of Brown, Leslie T.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It was a mistake to assume that all parents would be as enthusiastic about the book as I was. A concerned parent took issue with the language used in the book and its depictions of drug use. She immediately called the district to ask that the book be removed from my curriculum. Related: Who picks school curriculum?

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Incorporation of advocacy into human rights courses. He is currently completing a book on the United Nations Security Council and Counter-Terrorism. He is the author of five books and over fifty articles and book chapters. Experiential and active learning approaches to human rights pedagogy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

These are vital skills for a generation of children who look beyond printed books carefully curated by librarians. “Many assume that because young people are fluent in social media they are equally savvy about what they find there. Our work shows the opposite.”. Related: Getting schooled in social media.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction. As a result, coaches are able to engage in online coaching with more teachers.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. It’s in her basement, recently renovated to include cribs, small chairs and a table, organizers filled with colorful books and crafts, an alphabet rug and more.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

It was amazing to know we were a part of it, that we made it a difference in bringing out into the open something that should have never been on the books.”. New Orleans parent-advocacy group Our Voice Nuestra Voz mobilized, producing videos and petitions to challenge the rule. Erik Zavala, a Cohen teacher. citizens or not.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. Every state now has policies on the books that provide the flexibility needed for more learner-centered approaches. But the true indicator of impact came directly from students and their eventual professors.

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MAY 28, 2024

The costs of their tuition and books are covered almost entirely by a child care scholarship from the district in tandem with the pay equity program. The program has been able to pay teachers more without passing the costs directly to parents, said the center’s advocacy manager, Adam Barragan-Smith. A classroom at Educare DC.

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JULY 1, 2024

Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce. However, there are hundreds of jobs, such as public policy research and advocacy, with which students may not be as familiar.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“This year’s NAEP results confirm the absence of political will in the last two years to do anything revolutionary to change the trajectory for our children’s futures,” a statement from Memphis Lift and Nashville Propel, two Tennessee-based parent advocacy groups said.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Stuck in the Shallow End by Jane Margolis & colleagues (a book that will deepen your understanding of racial equity in CS education). Incorporate books to teach CS concepts, explore impacts of computing, and/or highlight diversity. Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours).

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APRIL 29, 2019

Students have fewer barriers to learning when they can use their tablets or laptops not only to find homework instructions, read e-books, and share important information with their families, but to create and work on independent projects, research topics that interest them, and connect with subject experts.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As The Casey Foundation recently highlighted in our 2023 KIDS COUNT ® Data Book , shortcomings of the child care system already cost the country $122 billion a year in lost wages, tax revenue and productivity. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As trauma-informed education expert Alex Shevrin Venet points out in her recent book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education : This is the uncomfortable truth: schools cause trauma and harm. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless.

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MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. I had been scheduled to talk with author Paul Tough at SXSW EDU about his book “ The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

EL , Design39 , or EPiC ), most of the schools that are featured in deeper learning research, advocacy, and publicity conversations often are at the secondary level (e.g., However, with some exceptions (e.g., The Met or High Tech High ).

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AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

The teenager would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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MARCH 22, 2022

The wave of bills to limit the mention of LGBTQ+ topics, ban certain books and categorize gender affirming care for trans children as abuse is “targeting people’s existence and their ability to feel safe and supported,” Moran said. Politics have also presented a challenge for LGBTQ+ students, they said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Related: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic The retention law is not entirely new: A version has been on Tennessee’s books for more than a decade. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

You’ve got other expenses, like books, food and room and board and just things that come up during the year. Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America, said she’s worried that the “domino effect” started by the delayed FAFSA is going to eventually affect college completion rates.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Godfrey Rivera is the co-director of the Autism Initiative Project at Sinergia, a bilingual nonprofit that provides community, advocacy, and outreach for parents of children with autism, especially those who don’t speak English. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Yet an overwhelming majority of women who have made significant contributions won’t make it into the history books used in classes women teach, because teaching is a “pink-collar” profession, meaning it’s comprised mostly of women. The lack of credit shows up in lower pay. Related: Operation Varsity Blues proves we need affirmative action.

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APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. “Ask community college presidents what percentage of their students are parents, and they’ll say, ‘That’s a really good question.

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MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The third graders juggled the books as they traversed a courtyard ringed by adobe houses-turned-classrooms, with teacher Paul Chavarria trailing them.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Her first book is entitled Intersectional Advocacy. Her work focuses on how intersectionality is a critical framework for understanding U.S. institutions, higher education, political behaviors, and social movements. Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

In her book, “ The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member”, Cynthia Dillard explains how the legacy of imperialism and the enslavement of our ancestors endures in teaching and learning; yet, it’s presumed that Black folks “just happened to be here,” to be enslaved.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. It sounds complicated because it is. Related: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating. There are several reasons for this, Walsh said.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. Program officials purchased books, science materials, blocks and musical instruments for the center. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. In September 2016, that all changed abruptly.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In many cases, the $6,500 stipend covers most of the cost of tuition at these MDE-accredited schools, but not all, and might not cover registration, books or extra services a child might need. But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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