The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Similarly, embracing a more diverse and inclusive curriculum that highlights the history and culture of Black people in the United States may not just increase in-school engagement among Black youth — it may also challenge the latent cultural assumptions held by white teachers in classrooms teaching these Black youth.

Education 112

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Who suffers the most?

Civic Engagement 125

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Systemwide, there’s not much emphasis on what students read to practice that skill.

Local History 112

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B.

Social Studies 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Science-backed evidence is indeed one core pillar of improving education, but persistent and growing educational failures in the U.S. What makes an education system “good” is as much a moral and cultural question as a technical one. and globally tell us it is not enough. In response to global norms.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

These data have driven significant education policy and funding models at the national and state levels, and school districts devote up to 15 percent of their instructional days each school year to student assessments alone, costing an estimated $1.7 billion each year.

Cultures 58

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. EST March 11 about the medical, legal, educational, logistical and equity issues that schools should be thinking about as they consider taking classes online. “I It’s these schools that are so far still the norm.

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APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

You can’t just stick these kids in the corner,” said Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America, a Washington, D.C., based think tank that has studied both special and bilingual education. Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America.

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MAY 20, 2021

That’s because the curriculum I was given didn’t consider their language needs and was devoid of the cultural richness EL students bring to the classroom. For the first time, we have a former English learner in the Department of Education; he can not only guide education policy, but lead it.

Leadership 122

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

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.

Leadership 98

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

People who happen to be good at school and college are often described as ‘smart,’ and our systems tend to reward them with cultural status and good jobs. But what if the key to expanding educational access comes down to rethinking our concept of smarts and who has them?

K-12 104

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This is especially remarkable in our current cultural moment — a post-Parkland world in which school districts are pressured to purchase weapons, grant law enforcement access to student records, and spend limited education dollars on high-tech surveillance. The new MOU seeks to close the book on this culture. million students.

Public School 88

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Empathy, trust and listening are cornerstones of our classroom culture. education system are now students of color. As educators, we can help students learn empathy using culturally responsive curriculum. This sensation isn’t new to my students. It is now more important than ever to teach students the power of empathy.

Cultures 74

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

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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APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

HEA policies and programs continue to help more students attend and graduate from college, even those who are incarcerated. This involvement is unique given the norms and culture of correctional facilities, where leadership typically dictates nearly every aspect of inmates’ lives.

Sociology 79

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

And many students aren’t, said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy at Temple University and co-author of an ongoing six-year study at 42 public universities and colleges of practices that promote division or equality. “You likely came from a place where everybody looked like you. I definitely felt that division.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. And Where are the teachers of color ?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2016

But these conversations tend to overshadow the primary purpose of evaluation: to act as a single — albeit important — part of a robust system for supporting educators’ growth. These types of policies promote a growth mindset that supports success for students and teachers alike. “As Involve teachers in meaningful ways.

Education Policy 67

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money. It can lead to burnout, low job satisfaction and expanded responsibilities for the teachers who remain.

Psychology 117

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

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.

Economics 94

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

K-12 145

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. For many faculty, this new role requires a culture shift. And that overcame all institutional cultures.”. Financial and other realities are forcing this to change. That’s $13.3

Tradition 96

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

She finally toned down racial references in her cover letter — using the term “cultural communities” rather than “African-American communities,” for instance, to refer to one of her areas of study — and things took a turn for the better. The experience left her conflicted.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

It will emphasize the development of social and emotional skills and cultural competency as part of the curriculum. And a study from CREDO at Stanford University, an education policy research institute, found early evidence that students in Innovation Network Schools are outperforming their peers in the wider district.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The opening and operation of international satellite campuses “has flattened out from the burst of activity we saw 15 years ago,” said Kevin Kinser, department head of education policies studies at Pennsylvania State University and C-BERT’s co-founder. The momentum for creating overseas campuses is not really what it was.”

Tradition 118

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2017

The Educational Policy Improvement Center notes that 93 percent of middle-school students aspire to attend college, and yet only 44 percent of those students actually enroll. Add to that the language and cultural barriers faced by some families. And it’s not for lack of aspirations.

Elementary School 78

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Instead, I taught my son how to be a good education consumer. By my mid-40s, I had been a grad student, an education policy researcher and a professor. After that, I made a career writing about education. The whole culture of the college admissions process puts the cost of an education on the backburner.

Tutoring 99

Tutoring Middle School Leadership Education Policy 99

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Midwest educators are doubly nice, both because of the culture of where we live and because of our profession. My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2). State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In its strategic plan, it singles out its dining operations as “creating a culture of hospitality and service excellence for campus constituents and visitors while providing financial returns.”. Notre Dame, for instance, considers its dining and other auxiliary services “a major contributor of revenue to the university’s academic mission.”

Sociology 92

Sociology Education Policy Cultures Education 92

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Only 13 states publish data on enrollment in arts courses and none publish data on how much time is devoted to the arts, according to a 2019 study by the Education Commission for the States , a nonprofit think tank dedicated to studying education policy. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”.

K-12 101

K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 101

Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2019

Creating consistent space for mindfulness practice – like guided meditations — and theory in the school day can positively affect the entire school culture, emphasizing acceptance, self-care, and empathy. Provide teachers with dedicated time to engage in mindfulness practice themselves.

Charter School 67

Charter School Education Policy Research Cultures 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Genes may not pass on white supremacy, but education policies certainly do.

Economics 80

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