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OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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APRIL 7, 2024

The downturn has pushed community colleges to broaden their approach to recruitment, resulting in an increase in the number of students requiring more support and services, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The price tag is not the same,” he said. “But

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APRIL 24, 2020

“Students and families need to check in with their own institutions to determine how the funds are being distributed and how the school is determining who qualifies for those funds and recognize that the guidance from the Department of Education is still rolling out.” Now, the message has changed.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps. Politics and sausage-making: Iowa #edreform.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I joined the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, which works to elevate student voice in education research, policy and advocacy across Kentucky, I wrote a piece about poor students needing more from policymakers. “As My story is a testament to what can happen when students are given ownership over their education.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Thousands of educators from across the country are in San Antonio, Texas, this week for the annual iNACOL conference that seeks to explain and promote these methods to a broader spectrum of schools.

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JULY 9, 2015

Roark is correct about our tone but I will also note that educators’ current policy advocacy is not working. Politics often requires a bolder voice than we educators are accustomed to exercising. My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2). Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

“The only way you could get the same level of instruction would be an alternative school that was as vast and resourced as your original school,” said Eamonn Scanlon, education policy director of the nonprofit advocacy group The Children’s Agenda. That’s not what happens.”

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Comeaux, who has made it a point to educate herself about the intricacies of special education policy, told administrators she would not be taking her child off the regular diploma track. Who is in Special Education?

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MAY 29, 2020

Even if graduating high school seniors say they are only delaying their educations, and will eventually go to college, “their likelihood of actually enrolling a year or two years later is lower, and therefore their chances of getting a degree is lower,” said Watson Scott Swail, president and CEO of the Educational Policy Institute.

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JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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MARCH 24, 2022

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Because getting involved in policy-making can be so tricky to navigate, this often results in giving up before even getting started.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Also see my copyright policy and feel free to use these data and images as you wish for your own projects! State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). Excel file. Keynote file. Related Posts.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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JUNE 10, 2017

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. Asked how it’s going so far, Stump replied: “It depends on how you define ‘it’ and how you define ‘going.’”.

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JULY 22, 2016

“There is a whole host of questions students and families can’t answer when they’re trying to make their college decisions,” said Mamie Voight, director of policy research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. It’s often been taken for granted that going to any college will have a strong payoff,” Voight said.

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APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. Proficiency-based approaches are also supposed to create more equitable schools, closing gaps by giving students who might fall behind the time and resources they need to succeed.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time. New Jersey legislators and policymakers have recognized that their students need this education, need these life skills so urgently.

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JULY 14, 2020

You can’t just stick these kids in the corner,” said Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America, a Washington, D.C., based think tank that has studied both special and bilingual education. Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

“If you leave it to employers to essentially figure out child care for their employees, I think that’s not going to get us where we want to be as a country,” says Laura Bornfreund, senior fellow and advisor on early and elementary education with the Education Policy program at New America, a Washington-based think tank. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Young adults who have to borrow money to go to college are under water, in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation, according to a report by Young Invincibles, an advocacy and policy group. In 1989, 25- to 34-year-old college graduates with student loans had a median net wealth of about $90,000.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Throughout most of the Department of Education’s life as a guarantor of loans and a direct lender, student borrowing remained below $20 billion per year , according to a 1998 report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. That shifted with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For many reasons, graduate programs make up a particularly attractive market both for these companies and for universities looking to shore up their bottom lines, said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy and knowledge management at the think tank New America.

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APRIL 27, 2016

Too many students in virtual and blended learning schools are performing poorly, according to a new National Education Policy Center report , released last week, by Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University, and Charisse Gulosino, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The campaign to reinstate the exemption was the result of legal action by many elite four-year institutions and advocacy groups, notably Harvard University and MIT. Dan Kent is a senior policy analyst at Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit education research organization.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. The pervasiveness of advocacy writing helped usher in a “post-truth” era, where people consumed copious amounts of narrative over fact.

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JULY 10, 2019

His larger argument, though — that the alliance between education policymakers and billionaire technologists could undermine the role of teachers and the public sphere — has only become more relevant. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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MAY 17, 2015

University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Foundations such as Gates and Lumina are bigger, more influential, more strategic, and directly involved in shaping federal and state education policy (K-16). Christopher Morphew , U. Complete College America).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The think tank New America and the student advocacy organization uAspire found that colleges they studied used 136 different terms for “unsubsidized student loan” — in two dozen cases, without actually including the word “loan.” Offers of financial aid, for example, are notoriously confusing.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We Hers is a distinctly powerful position. Credit: Tanya Lieberman. Credit: Tim Kelley.

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JULY 20, 2022

I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. In addition to funding research, the Bradley Foundation has given at least $31 million to political advocacy on behalf of vouchers. Twitter: @joshcowenMSU.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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