ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Advocates want to move toward funding virtual schools based on performance.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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MARCH 29, 2021

“Please ignore the airplane,” she recalled telling her colleagues as her younger son climbed into her lap, miniature jet plane held high. We were our own experts,” said Kelley, a principal consultant to the California State Assembly Committee on Education. Hers is a distinctly powerful position. Credit: Tanya Lieberman.

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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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MAY 29, 2020

Ten percent of high school seniors planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else. But high school graduates who put off college often end up never going. About half say they will enroll at a community college. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Working long hours outside of school often thwarts progress toward graduation. “We Other students confront the challenge of having had inadequate high school preparation. It’s mostly not just one obstacle or one incident that makes a student decide to leave school, researchers and educators say.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

My local high school recently was named the top high school in Iowa by Niche.com , a school and college ranking site. Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Or is Iowa trying to become a low tax, low revenue, low education state like Kansas or Louisiana ? Iowa has the top high school graduation rate in the country. These, personnel sharing arrangements, and other successes are a testament to the hard work of our educators, school systems, and communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Every well-intentioned policy carries unintended consequence,” said Chester Finn Jr., a former assistant U.S.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. BRENTWOOD, N.Y. Steven Martinez’s life was turned upside down by an ill-conceived joke. looking for him. That’s not what happens.”

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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In After graduating from Northside High School in Columbus, she dreamed of attending Savannah College of Art and Design, but it was too expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

You wanna buy a college education? People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. percent increase in the number of high school students interested in applying. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

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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OCTOBER 6, 2023

It’s not always clear, however that this money goes directly to schools and parents: In Arizona, millions of dollars also went to businesses and non-school spending, a recent investigation found. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Hall, for her part, abstained in an August vote on a school district policy that would require teachers and staff to “refer to students by their biological sex” and students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their genders assigned at birth, along with bar transgender girls from girls’ sports teams.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Ketron’s daughter Meryl Ketron, who was trans and an outspoken member of the LGBTQ+ community in her small town, had talked about wanting to start a Gay-Straight Alliance when she got to high school. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That suggests that this is hindering growth,” said Cheryl Oldham, the chamber’s vice president of education policy and the former acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education in the George W. In 2009, said Mitchell, “There was the supposition that as the economy recovered, states would reinvest in higher education.

Economics 111

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A 2016 study found that the Scorecard at that time had little effect on students’ college choices ; where there was a measurable impact, it was among students of means at high schools with knowledgeable college counselors who could help them interpret the information. Offers of financial aid, for example, are notoriously confusing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

Education Policy 143

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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.

Private School 145

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2019

Lawmakers are eager to score political points for proposing a “big solution” to the nation’s college affordability crisis, said Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy at the think tank Education Trust. Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy, Education Trust.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the case of forecasting what education policies Kamala Harris might pursue as president, though, a more apt analogy might be reading her mind. Frankly it’s anyone’s guess what her education policies would be given how few clues we have. Previously, presidential candidates laid out detailed plans for schools.

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