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MAY 28, 2024

Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework. Relying on teacher recommendations or parent advocacy to decide which students are ready, many schools have not been able to get enough talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds into seats in algebra classrooms.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Just last week, the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, listed K-12 as one of three “ target rich, resource poor ” priority sectors for the agency, which is tasked with toughening the country’s cybersecurity infrastructure. But it’s something that lawmakers are only beginning to wake up to.

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MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Katie Fielding Instructional Technology Coordinator Arlington Public Schools, VA Not every student is going to go to college. Today’s careers require creativity.

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JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

In a deal quietly announced last week, K-12 educational software services company Renaissance Learning acquired Illuminate Education for an undisclosed amount. The deal was announced last Monday on both companies' sites and in an email sent to Illuminate customers. Why the pairing?

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MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Elementary schools could have “one day where younger kids engage with experiential learning with partner organizations,” suggests Scott Goldstein, founder of a teacher advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. We can get more creative with school employees, too.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For instance, a program called Educators Rising has chapters in high schools for students who might be interested in teaching that also provides info and arranges tours of education schools, says Jacqueline King, a consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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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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MAY 18, 2022

Earlier this month, as thousands of early childhood educators and advocates gathered in Baltimore for the 2022 National Head Start Annual Conference, attendees exchanged first-hand accounts and anecdotes from the field, sharing what the last couple of years have been like for them and what it’s like right now.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They leave for K-12 or other educational systems that will pay them a fair wage and provide benefits.” So, too, has the recent decision by New Mexico voters to guarantee the right to early childhood education in the state constitution. Direct input from early childhood educators is also part of the approach.

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MAY 23, 2022

In fact, it’s increasingly common to hear about early childhood educators who can no longer justify staying in the field. Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. This predicament is not rare. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Some institutions are even cutting teacher degree programs, such as Oklahoma City University, which has suspended its elementary education and early childhood education tracks.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

“All of them are searching for that holy grail of tailoring content and skills to the weaknesses of each kid,” said Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, who often writes about education technology on his popular blog. What is personalized learning?

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MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The local McDonalds advertises $13 an hour — $12 at the Piggly Wiggly. I think part of it is a disbelief that things aren’t gonna get as bad as we anticipate they’ll get,’” said Ruth Schmidt, the executive director of the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association, an advocacy organization. In Wisconsin, monthly payments were cut in half.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

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 We want to see states really succeed and knock this one of the park and build systems we can all learn from.”.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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APRIL 23, 2025

Federal dollars comprise a seemingly small percentage of the overall K-12 spending, yet it is crucial for schools ability to offer mental health services, experts say. District budgets show that they have already inked contracts and committed money for student services, she added. This, too, differs by place.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. The amendment is up for a vote this election.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. But I want them to live.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. I didn’t pass the test for the math part, but she put me in the class anyway. I enjoyed math because of its power to help me understand things.

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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 The announcement was met with fierce rebuke and animated praise alike. 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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JUNE 2, 2023

Excerpts from our interviews with Asian American K-12 teachers shed light on some of these nuances. For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 percent of STEM undergraduate and 17.4 percent of STEM master’s degrees.[i] i] Yet research on Asian Americans’ perceptions of belonging tells another story.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Extremist groups fueled and funded campaigns in Massachusetts urging parents to “opt out” of sex education, denying their children vital information about topics including puberty, healthy relationships, consent, self-advocacy and more.

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APRIL 28, 2025

Were really disappointed, particularly given that theres this focus on making sure kids are healthy, making America healthy, said Diane Pratt-Heavener with the School Nutrition Association, a 50,000-member advocacy group that supports K-12 school meal programs. Massachusetts is expecting a loss of $12 million due to the cuts.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It’s part of a coordinated yet bottom-up approach, fueled by early learning advocates but led by locals, to build a system of early care and education in a state where it would not otherwise exist. In fact, it is unconstitutional for K-12 schools there to spend their state funding on children under age 5.

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