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AUGUST 8, 2024

A new initiative led by Home Grown, a national funder collaborative focused on improving the quality of and access to home-based child care, in partnership with NIEER, would support state, city, county and tribal government leaders to include home-based child care in their pre-K programs.

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MAY 1, 2024

But tribal leaders are sometimes wary of doing that: “Making sure there's the true intent of helping build our infrastructure” matters, Mills says, “just because of the historical trauma and federal government and those kinds of things that have happened to our people.” Recently, there has been federal investment. No internet.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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APRIL 4, 2022

Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. One possible answer is investing in more inclusive partnerships.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. Conversely, I also have settler students who push back and say “it is not their culture.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

“One of the activities that we do is the classroom constitution,” she says, “where from the minute the students come together as a new community, you walk in and you say, ‘How are we going to govern ourselves?’”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

We have this broad discussion around equity and inclusion, but we miss the cultural nuance of representation across the spectrum, particularly for young children. 1, young people aren't really listening to you as a teacher, they are absorbing culture outside of the classroom. The second thing is just to be very direct.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

A study by the Naval Postgraduate School showed that despite the fact that military families have government insurance that covers mental health treatment, up to 35 percent lacked adequate access to psychiatric care.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2022

I excelled academically, graduating 12th in my class, and serving as the first Latina president for the Student Government Association. It is imperative that we try to understand their cultural experiences by engaging them openly, and trying to understand their way of life. I had to learn at a very young age how to adapt.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

They’re selling to the government, to the administration, to the district,” he points out. But he says that doing so will mean a change in the culture of many companies. “In He notes that there aren’t good incentives for edtech companies to spend the time and effort on more-detailed testing with students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5 billion in implementing evidence-based practices in schools nationwide to support special education students, including increased resources for staffing and implementing diversified instructional practices. It’s estimated that more than one in five children in the U.S.

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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?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

A survey of college students last month by Top Hat, a higher education technology company based in Toronto, found that 85 percent said they missed face-to-face interactions with faculty, and 86 percent missed socializing with other students. But residential colleges also bring together a crucial community of peers and invested adults.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We want it to be culturally responsive. And we’ve finally got to get in front of it, not behind it. And so that's what we tried to do in this paper. What are some of the basic points you’re calling for in how the metaverse can help learners? We want it to be equitable—so it's accessible by all kids and not just kids who can afford it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It ensures that each student can adapt to change, possess the cognitive skills to problem-solve for those other 16 non-working hours, pass the Marshmallow Test , acquire cultural intelligence, and sew on a button instead of tossing the shirt and buying another. Human Ecology education serves generations within a family.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Others in the class applied for and received funding from their university’s student government association and held a campus-wide night of remembrance.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Once that happened and they saw the negative impact [that the cuts] had on students and student outcomes and school culture, they reinstated school counselors, hired more school counselors. But when the funding ran out, there were many districts that cut school counseling positions and many that cut their counseling programs all together.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

A Devoted Career Kang has devoted her career to early childhood education—an early love that she says was forged during her experience growing up as the oldest child of Korean immigrants. A Time of Transition And then in spring 2021, NAEYC’s CEO of nearly a decade announced she would be stepping down in the coming year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

It's important to be able to think about recruitment and strategies around workplace culture and other issues like compensation,” Sakimura says, “if we're really going to tackle some of the challenges we've had [keeping people] in the profession who are really prepared and feel equipped to do right by kids.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

And so I have some hope that if we cultivated that kind of practice among our kids, that maybe in the long run there would be positive payoffs for our culture in general. We have as grown-ups in this country a real problem having civil conversations across difficult divides. Is that something you see in the college students you teach?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education. States must submit plans for how they will measure and improve student achievement to the federal government in the spring. Department of Education has the power to accept or reject state plans.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

What we’re really trying to do is to get our youth more people in their corner who understand what they’re experiencing and want to invest in their success. —

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Additionally, 40 percent of child care providers are people of color, bringing invaluable perspectives and cultural understanding to their work. These dedicated individuals create a nurturing and secure environment, providing a second home for our children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Those grim statistics, and a flurry of seed funds from state governments and nonprofit organizations, are compelling colleges to take the often joked-about issue of campus drug use much more seriously, acknowledging a problem that still makes many campus leaders — especially in recruitment, development, and alumni offices — uncomfortable.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture. I figured that what gave me joy in elementary school would do the same for my students. At the end of the month, my co-teachers and I gave out student-of-the-month superlatives and character awards.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The organization gets its funding primarily through nonprofit and government grants, with some money collected via membership fees. If you want to help to support this culture of care for all students, trying to do that without engaging the families feels like another missed opportunity,” Cipriano says.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

For example, students may learn about being respectful and empathetic, which will help foster a culture of belonging and create a supportive environment where learning can take place. Overall, social-emotional learning programs aim to promote what is best for students’ social, emotional and academic success.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

This led to the establishment of the Inclusive, Inquiry-Based Social Studies for Illinois which includes a paid professional development series for teachers on “how to locate and utilize resources for non-dominant cultural narratives and sources of historical information.”

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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.”

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