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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. It is a very different thing to ask, “What do we want every child to achieve?”

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it.

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APRIL 18, 2018

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress , the only standardized way to measure reading proficiency across the nation, there is a 34 percentage-point gap in fourth-grade reading proficiency between black and white students, and a 23 percentage-point gap between Hispanic and white students.

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JULY 21, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post Which is how the former head of finance at the British Post Office and active co-founder of a startup in the hot field of renewable energy came to be teaching finance, banking and financial management to undergraduates at his hometown alma mater, Sheffield Hallam University.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. Aaron Thompson Yet just because people can access technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it effectively for teaching and learning.

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JUNE 20, 2021

“They were already struggling to pay the bill, and now that it’s accruing it becomes impossible,” said Sosanya Jones, a Howard University professor who teaches courses on higher education policy. Jones said it’s hard to tell whether these transcript hold and collection policies are effective, but she’s skeptical. “In

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Jennifer Holley began the year teaching nine 5-year-olds in person and 14 online. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Kindergarten matters a lot.”. “I

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AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. 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.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. To Goodson, who has specialized in early childhood education research for 40 years, the problem is that learning is ultimately about changing human behavior and that is always difficult for adults and children.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

“Since the inception of this country, the model of removing someone from society to teach them a lesson has not worked.” From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts.

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APRIL 9, 2018

” Related: Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve. 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.

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MAY 11, 2016

About a month after Governor Malloy sought to recognize paraprofessionals’ work, the state announced its teaching shortage areas. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles. Most teaching jobs require a bachelor’s degree, yet only a quarter of paraprofessionals meet this requirement. First on the list?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. Kellogg Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Battle Creek, Michigan: Earlier this year, t he W.K.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S. think tank. and the U.K.

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JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Happily, as New York City public school students return to class, New York state’s committee to implement this federal education law has pledged collaboration with higher education to improve aspiring teachers’ student teaching and field experiences. Ensure that our teaching force mirrors students’ diversity.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In some districts, this could mean converting pull-out ESL models into “push-in” co-teaching ones to better integrate language support with mainstream learning. It can give biliterate Americans an economic advantage in multilingual job markets. Janie Carnock is a policy analyst with the Education Policy program at New America.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

They are learning (or teaching) a new language, a process that takes around 4 to 7 years based on a variety of factors. From an economic perspective: what return on we getting on our investment of public dollars? Their performance on English math, English reading, or English science tests is not always valid.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Rebekah Schoutko, who teaches English as a second language at the high school, said that, if they go to college, most of her students would be the first in their families to do so; for that matter, many would be the first to graduate high school. Related: In one country, immigration is seen not as a burden, but as an economic gain.

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MAY 9, 2017

Paula Dallacqua, who is in her first year of teaching a combined ninth- and 10th-grade class at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, says she tried to create specific moments for mentoring but soon found she was forcing the issue. Curtin and Hill will teach one curriculum to this year’s crop of ninth- and 10th-graders.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Introduction: The teaching of climate education has undergone a change in recent years. 2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022).

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MAY 30, 2018

I love it, because teaching a whole group of kids, 30 kids at a time, some pretty rigorous math skills is really hard,” he said. One of his students finished the entire fourth-grade curriculum on ST Math by himself before winter break and then started teaching himself fifth-grade math.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Ron DeSantis of Florida rejected portions of an African American studies course piloted by the College Board, saying that the Advanced Placement class teaches concepts specifically forbidden by the state’s ban on teaching “critical race theory” and “divisive concepts.” course targeted by Gov.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Critics counter that years of teaching experience and academic course credits are correlated with better teaching. But some academic studies indicate minimal payoff from post-tenure teaching experience and additional academic course credits. Even after five years of teaching, the junior teacher only earns 54 percent as much.

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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. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Among the proposed cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low-income families) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).

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MARCH 14, 2021

She’d been living and teaching in Arizona, which spends less than half of what Wyoming does per student. She wanted better teaching conditions and pay for herself (her monthly salary nearly doubled when she moved) and a better education for her girls. Richard Seder, education policy consultant. Highway 20.

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JULY 8, 2020

Trauma, economic distress, and physical and mental health issues have been part of the lives of many students long before the coronavirus arrived. This story about reopening schools in the fall was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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JULY 21, 2020

The sample schedule called for students to switch back and forth between independent work and real-time teaching streamed on their devices. In Austin, 53 percent of kids who attend the city’s public schools are economically disadvantaged. All locations will be added to the company’s liability policy. I can’t do that.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Pollanen, a candidate for the master’s degree in education that’s a teaching requirement here, soaks it all in, saying Saari is “one of the top-tier physics teachers in Finland. He’s got a lot to offer me when it comes to improving my teaching.”. Just ranked by the World Economic Forum as the No.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to breaking up cliques, on a more systemic level, school districts have to push for integrated schools to counteract the social isolation of entire communities caused by education policy. On the other hand, teaching diverse classrooms can break the self-fulfilling prophecy of white and class-based superiority.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover.

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