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Elevating Youth Voice in Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

ED Surge

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most?

educators

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What’s in a word? A way to help impatient college students better connect to jobs

The Hechinger Report

There are cultural forces that are making pracademics at the forefront of discussions,” said Teri-Lisa Griffiths, a former youth worker who now teaches criminology at Sheffield Hallam and has co-edited a new book about pracademics. They can perpetuate bad habits and cultures as well as good, in fields such as law enforcement, for example.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics.

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OPINION: Early data offers a sobering look at interrupted and incomplete learning, but there is hope ahead

The Hechinger Report

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. Young people and educators have been telling us what they need. Ngounou, Ed.L.D.,

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Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity

Digital Promise

What are the systems, structures, and cultures that are barriers to creating and implementing powerful learning opportunities for all? At Digital Promise our mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn with the goal of closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation

The Hechinger Report

But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.