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.

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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.

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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. And the state’s leadership has remained consistent. “A Most are trying to figure it out.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Iowa’s spending per pupil is well below the national average and the percentage of the overall state budget allocated to education is several percentage points lower than it was just a few years ago, causing the Iowa State Education Association to say, “ We haven’t seen this dramatic a lack of funding ever. Related Posts.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

I could have pushed him to take on leadership positions in clubs he didn’t care about. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

To succeed intellectually and emotionally, she explained, students need “strong culture, engaging learning opportunities that feel relevant and connected to students’ lives, relationships, a sense of agency, and an opportunity to express their own opinions about their learning.” In education, metamorphosis requires more than mere tinkering.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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. It’s a question he can’t get out of his mind.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Rethinking remedial education. They are still behind .

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 26, 2020

At the forefront is developing and sustaining a culture that imparts purpose, meaning, relevance, ownership, and various paths that cater to both the strengths and weaknesses of all students. It is critical to come to a consensus as to what this then means in the context of teaching, learning, and leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And he seemed to reference a much reduced role for the Education Department, if not its actual elimination. Department of Education, expanding school choice, rolling back Biden-era Title IX changes that expanded legal protections for transgender students, and punishing “woke” schools. Trump campaigned on getting rid of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

See, whatever you thought about the Harris-Walz ticket’s particular proposals, the Democrats had things to say about education issues that genuinely shape children’s development: affordable early care and learning, access to nutritious school meals, funding for English learners , and more. Related: How would Project 2025 change education?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the case of forecasting what education policies Kamala Harris might pursue as president, though, a more apt analogy might be reading her mind. Frankly it’s anyone’s guess what her education policies would be given how few clues we have. Predicting the future is often compared to reading tea leaves. Bush administration.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you.

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