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Elevating Youth Voice in Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

ED Surge

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

At least that is the conclusion I reached after looking at data on more than 400 traditional public middle schools in New York City, where the rankings are dominated by students’ absolute proficiency levels. The correlation is r = -.68 Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I. The Hechinger Report is an independently funded unit of Teachers College.

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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. This is how we will be able to better foster prosperity and facilitate our nation’s promise of economic mobility.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

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. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward.

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Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity

Digital Promise

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).