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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. What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said.

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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?

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. The arts are the arts.

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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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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.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

High quality options for African American students should have transparent accountability structures, sound disciplinary policies and outcomes and encourage diversity. Andre Perry, a contributing writer, is the former founding dean of urban education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The proportion of students in kindergarten through 12 th grade nationwide that is Hispanic has increased to 25 percent from 19 percent since 2003, while the black, non-Hispanic population has dropped to 16 percent, and the white, non-Hispanic population, to 50 percent from 59 percent. In 2000, about one in 12 Hickory residents was Hispanic.

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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.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. 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

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AUGUST 1, 2019

It will emphasize the development of social and emotional skills and cultural competency as part of the curriculum. She points to significant gaps in income and educational attainment across racial and ethnic groups. She found the visit jarring.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. Still, England shares many cultural and economic similarities, certainly more than the Scandinavian countries often cited as having ideal educational systems. and the U.K.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

“When you think about the numbers of students, and we have this huge language barrier, and there are these cultural differences,” LeRoy said. It’s a new type of thinking about the educational system.”. Sometimes cultural differences keep parents from understanding that schools want to hear from them.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

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MAY 31, 2017

According to a Department of Education policy statement, children suspended in the early school years are 10 times more likely to drop out of high school , experience academic failure and grade retention, hold negative attitudes about school and face incarceration, than those who are not.

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MAY 22, 2016

“There’s a real debate (across the country) whether or not Common Core is a good or bad thing for English language learners,” said Madeline Mavrogordato, an assistant professor of K-12 educational administration at Michigan State University. ” Instead, in many cases, the gap has grown slightly.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Nearly 12 million children in the U.S. To be sure, where a district can reasonably execute bilingual and English-only models with equal efficacy, there are many merits to buckling down and pursuing bilingual education as goal in and of itself. It can shape a culture where home languages are valued as assets. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Teacher education programs must recruit, support and prepare aspiring teachers who are racially, culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse. Lin Goodwin is vice dean and Evenden Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ensure that our teaching force mirrors students’ diversity.

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MAY 11, 2016

Bilingual PreK-12 teachers. Although the two Connecticut events occurred back-to-back, Malloy likely failed to connect the dots: Given their diverse instructional, linguistic, and cultural competencies, paraprofessionals could help address the state’s recurring bilingual teacher shortage. First on the list? report similar shortages.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. She said the challenge for these project fellows is to lead a culture change in schools, so that their colleagues don’t just tolerate data, but actively demand it. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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MAY 30, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Kailei Whitaker, 12, said she likes learning from a computer more than learning from a teacher because she can focus better. So to jump from that kind of culture [to] where you’re sitting by yourself for an hour, doing your own work, was a little bit difficult.”.

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APRIL 12, 2023

This story also appeared in The Nation “I knew that the public school system would not benefit my child without the important and critical history and culture of Indigenous people being taught,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. I want my children to know who they are,” said Tilsen-Brave Heart. “I

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AUGUST 7, 2023

So when they’re not centered in that narrative, or their ideas are not centered, then they tend to say this is not of educational value.” She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology.

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APRIL 18, 2023

In higher education, the proposition of valuing skills but not necessarily degrees has gained support among influential leaders from the White House to the C-suite of major employers. There are challenges as basic as defining what, exactly, counts as a “skill.” If we had that,” he asks, “wouldn’t we be living in a very different America?”

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MARCH 28, 2022

Republican lawmakers are currently pushing a pair of bills, SB292 and HB312, that would stop educators from “compelling” students to believe certain theories about race, gender and religion. It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We want to know what questions you have about the election and education policy. On abortion Immediately after Roe was overturned, we wondered what the fallout would be for medical education and soon reported on future doctors who were rethinking where they wanted to conduct their training. We have some very full classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Over the past several months, though, the Trump administration has proposed or put in place a series of education policies rooted in colorblindness, policies that reverse previous guidelines that many school districts have used to help them determine how they examine and address the racial disparities plaguing our schools.

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APRIL 18, 2025

In the most extreme scenario, they say, the rulings could lead to the dismantling of public education and essentially allow public schools to be Sunday schools. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Congress included a provision making a popular higher education savings program available for K-12 private schools tuition in the new tax code, a move which DeVos praised. Nearly 12 percent of the total federal budget for elementary, middle and high schools goes to private schools. They receive almost $9.9

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The discussion of LGBTQ individuals in sex education is one of the reasons why it is so highly politicized, and experts say the culture wars have hurt the quality of many sex education programs in public schools. at a 2018 town hall meeting to discuss the state’s sex education law.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

The scant mention of Democrats’ official platform on K-12 education on the main stage at the Democratic National Convention last week was clearly a political effort to distance the party from the fray. Education reform is clearly a part of the Obama legacy that Clinton doesn’t outwardly want to adopt. (For

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Certainly, although its size and overall demographics are surprisingly similar to those of nearly two-thirds of American states, where education policy is largely managed. Just ranked by the World Economic Forum as the No. Is Finland different than the United States?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. On such grounds, the letter says, OCR could open an investigation.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The lack of attention to education during the run-up to the presidential election left many to wonder just how much of a priority quality educational opportunity is for most Americans. We didn’t hear much in the way of education policy from either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton along the campaign trail.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Related: Teachers union leader says next president must completely reset education policy and oust current education secretary. Related: Have Obama’s education policies weakened the Democratic Party? There is a total disconnect in the area of language and cultural understanding.”.

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