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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

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We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators. Phelton Moss is the acting director of American University’s Education Policy and Leadership Program.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

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Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 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. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated. It sounds complicated because it is.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

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Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. He has proven leadership,” she said. Student outcomes improved. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

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The teachers wanted to discuss the need for more anti-racist professional development at Lusher and the possibility of increasing diversity among Lusher’s leadership, including on the board of directors, whose seven members include two people of color, according to school administrators. Talbott denied this, as did Gleghorn.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

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They also can, and often do, circumvent the public system entirely by hiring private reading tutors or sending their children to private schools focused on reading remediation. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.) Enslaved people could not show any sign of weakness or perceived weakness.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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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. “It’s not just about getting them in the door. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.