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Creating Impact and Art Through Partnerships

Digital Promise

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. But those networks never cross over.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Doing Social Studies

This week’s post comes from Thomas Fulbright, current KCSS president and history teacher at Hope Street Academy, a public charter school in Topeka since 2008. One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus.

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More universities and colleges reach out to boost their home communities

The Hechinger Report

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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Youth aren’t props — they need an actual seat at the policy table

The Hechinger Report

Youth even have ideas as to how they should be governed. Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids? And so-called data driven decision-making should be considered an exercise in adults living out their policy dreams and fantasies.

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Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

The Hechinger Report

She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. to remember who was standing in front of them, and what they learned, on Jan.