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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

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?

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Research in psychology suggests that, though some programs demonstrate promise in changing individuals’ unconscious cognition, the impacts of these programs are small, do not necessarily persist over time and seldomly lead to shifts in behaviors. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University.

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When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs

The Hechinger Report

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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Why Some Teachers Don't Want to Go ‘Back to Normal’

ED Surge

For educators like Aion and Bowyer, the expectation that public education would “return to normal” is one of the factors that pushed them out of the profession. For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

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

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Are paraprofessionals the answer to the nation’s shortage of bilingual teachers?

The Hechinger Report

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. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles.

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Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Also, there’s a psychological factor. 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.