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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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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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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We

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JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I Maine is the first state to pass such a law, though the idea of valuing skills over credits is increasingly popular around the country. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools.

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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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JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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MAY 17, 2015

There’s another kind of inequality: rich preschool education. I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). False myths that undermine education reform. They say maybe 40%.

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MAY 16, 2023

to treat and fund early care and education like a public good, in much the same way K-12 is. “If Some see it as wrongheaded — a distraction from the real goal of getting the U.S. Momentum there is really important.

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JULY 29, 2016

Absent were specific policy proposals about the K-12 education system. Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank. One who did speak about K-12 issues was Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, who said: “Let’s be honest, right now in this country we have two education systems.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. The post One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 20, 2022

In recent years, nearly half of all states have created publicly funded private K-12 tuition plans, collectively known as school vouchers. 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. Twitter: @joshcowenMSU.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg delivers remarks during a campaign rally on February 12, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, he no longer sounds like Trump at all, at least when it comes to talking about higher education; he has yet to make his K-12 plan available.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Predicting the future is often compared to reading tea leaves.

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