Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

How can school districts create more equitable opportunities and dismantle systemic barriers facing many students, families, and educators? They recently reflected on their learning, and six strategies for advancing educational equity emerged. The post Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. After paying their debt to society, the incarcerated need to be set up for success — and what better way to do that than to subsidize their education? Higher Education. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Beginning next week, my summer students and I will co-create our Leadership for Social Justice class together, recognizing that none of us has all of the answers but that we all can do something. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy. By themselves, they are not enough.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years. We will continue the conversation with both APSA and WPSA Community College faculty members.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

As educators, we set the tone within our classrooms, and students act in the way that we allow them to. Creating an environment free from judgement and free from bias is the responsibility of every educator. Are you decorating your room in a manner that is representative of all cultures ? Be diverse in what you teach and read.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the American education system at all levels, and it is taking a serious toll on student mental health and well-being. Higher education institutions can facilitate access to tele-mental health care with special attention to culturally sensitive and trauma-informed practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. And once teachers of color are in the classroom, they need to be allowed to access and use instructional materials that foster essential discussions about culture, race and equity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

On July 16-18, Digital Promise held the fifth annual Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters18) in Philadelphia, with our co-host the ExCITe Center at Drexel University. EdClusters18 focused on clarifying the future vision, tools, and action steps for education innovation. Lean Lab Education (Kansas City).

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Regardless of where your understanding of gender fluidity lies, what you probably have in common with your fellow educators is that you want all of your students to feel safe, accepted, and loved while they are under your care. Edwards added this piece based on his own experience working with educators. What should I have said?

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. Previous SEL research combined these constructs into a general category of social outcomes. high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. And while Atlanta is a liberal city, Georgia isn’t immune to the political struggles.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2017

Their life choices are limited, though in some cases liberated, by their lack of formal education. I want to see young people occupy their schools fully and determine their directions, cultures and outcomes. For a variety of reasons, both personal and systemic, people close to me have never finished high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These experiences provide a framework for learning that uses surroundings, communities, and cultures to invite inquiry, investigate biases, and deepen understanding. Education at Asia Society. Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

But white leaders have tried to restrict our education for centuries. Related: While white students get specialists, struggling Black and Latino readers often get left on their own And the Black community has always found ways to deliver the education our children deserve. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. On the other, I’m not naïve — I understand there is a culture war happening and there are political points to be scored by attacking action civics,” he added.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This edition of noted content for educators includes how to lead more effective teacher PD, address teacher stress, and create a classroom culture of learning. What does this mean for educators sitting in professional development? So, what can educators do about it? Teacher stress is especially rising during the pandemic.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

As another pandemic year draws to a close, a few key themes have risen to the top in education. Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Then, Public Education. Then, Public Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. While many support the practices of social-emotional learning, they are leery of the program by that name.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Rather, it’s a systematic, sweeping inequity that pervades our country’s education system and separates the “have” districts from the have-nots. Inadequate educational support is nothing new. Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Although the case is widely expected to go to the Supreme Court next, it will still undoubtedly challenge all efforts in higher education for diversity across the country. But according to the National Center for Education Statistics , 87 percent of faculty in the U.S. A diverse faculty supports student inclusion. in 2015 were white.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Education in prison can be key to reducing recidivism. After deportation, with no support, education or job skills, felons sometimes return to the United States, where their families reside, and can then be charged with new felonies for doing so. Credit: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. Its experience shows how committed educators can create classrooms where all students feel respected and included.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Third, charter schools must cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate. If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”. Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. Education reform is status quo.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. I’ve earned two master’s degrees, received a Fulbright scholarship and participated in several prestigious education fellowships. That burden, I carry quietly, and often alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Troy Alim, who has been a social justice activist for the past several years, said he is inspired by the leadership of young Black students and agrees that most of the university statements are window dressing.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. Yet, according to the U.S

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

We talk about our existence as an act of social justice.”. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The situation has school counselors feeling stuck, said Mandy Savitz-Romer, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and expert in school counseling. “We A report in October by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University found that more education generally yields higher earnings — but not always.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

. Service, liberal education, being responsive to society’s needs, and a commitment to social justice: the tenets of a Jesuit education look a lot more like the innovative future than some might think. higher education. Providing education for adult learners is consistent with this original impulse.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a junior in college, TFA’s "mission” of ending educational inequity appealed to students like myself: hardworking and passionate about the intersection of social justice and education. The Teach for America mindset is that a two-year commitment is enough to take a bite out of systemic inequities in education.

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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.

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