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MARCH 30, 2020

These emergency policies need to be developed in direct relationship to the enduring problem in education: inequality. Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Access to content. Unequal risks. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

But some education experts worry the focus on industry qualifications has resulted in schools taking on responsibilities that should fall to businesses, like training workers for specific job duties, to the detriment of a more comprehensive education in schools. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. “Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era? Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Once an English learner becomes proficient at English, her achievement data moves out of the English learner tributary into the “mainstream” designation of all K–12 students. Fortunately, some states are innovating with new data policies. Secondly, English learners are a constantly overturning group of students.

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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. million students across the country.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While there are many ways to invest in children younger than 5, I chose to focus on preschool since it is the early years program most closely correlated with K-12 education, my primary focus as an education reporter. and a timeline of the major early education policy changes dating back to the late 19 th century.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

A pre-K student works on a writing assignment in a DC classroom. That is the major finding of a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, in which researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss analyzed kindergarten readiness data for socioeconomic groups in 1998 and 2010 to see if gaps in academic readiness have shrunk over time.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S. think tank.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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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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AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. 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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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Only 12 of the 67 innovations, or 18 percent, were found to have any positive impact on student achievement, according to a report published earlier in 2018. a research and consulting firm that was hired to analyze the results of the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund for the Department of Education.

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APRIL 9, 2018

-based research organization, is planning to calculate “demographically adjusted” scores for each state later Tuesday, showing how each state would stack up if it educated a similar mix of students with the same racial and economic backgrounds. Related: Is it time to update NAEP? Concerns over computers.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. Detroit: In Detroit, private funding from the PNC Foundation has brought supplies, field trips, and services like support programs for parents to some pre-K classrooms in public schools.

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MAY 23, 2016

And he’s concluded that integration has been a powerfully effective tool for raising the educational levels and living standards for at least two generations of black families. The first-generation study began as a working paper of the National Bureau of Economic Research , most recently revised in August 2015 with data through 2013.

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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MAY 9, 2016

According to a February 2016 paper published by Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, income segregation between different school districts increased 15 percent between 1990 and 2010. Rich families are increasingly pulling away from poor ones, and sending their kids to different schools.

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families.

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MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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MAY 11, 2016

Bilingual PreK-12 teachers. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain. It’s possible that psychological and bureaucratic barriers add to these hurdles: if paraprofessionals don’t see further education and upward mobility as possibilities, they may never make it into those roles.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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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 give biliterate Americans an economic advantage in multilingual job markets.

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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 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. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education.

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MAY 9, 2017

That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Sometimes she even has a precocious eighth-grader or two and struggling 11th-graders. The Francis W.

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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.” The district also began holding workshops on Black studies for all educators, featuring speakers such as scholars Hasan Jeffries and Bettina Love.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability. trillion in student debt.

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MARCH 14, 2021

The room is on the south wing of the sprawling K-12 education complex in Shoshoni, a town of 649 people. She wanted better teaching conditions and pay for herself (her monthly salary nearly doubled when she moved) and a better education for her girls. The front entrance of the $49 million Shoshoni K-12 School building.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

His bet is that he can harness that energy and use it, along with an unprecedented level of federal cash, to finally fix what ails public education in the U.S. Shoukan Aziz, 12, smiles at her teacher during an in-person day at school in spring 2021.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MAY 18, 2018

While South Carolina taxpayers spend roughly $13,200 annually to educate each K-12 student, state policies obstruct one group of students from advancing their education beyond high school. It’s illegal for K-12 public schools to ask about a student’s immigration status.

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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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JULY 29, 2016

In her acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night, Hillary Clinton pledged to create new economic opportunities for all Americans by generating more and better jobs; expanding affordable childcare and preschool programs, and making higher education “debt-free for all.”. Convention coverage.

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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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