A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Change is a word that is thrown around in education circles more and more each day. We are made to think that education is in a downward spiral and that students are ill prepared to succeed in college and/or careers that require students to think and apply learning differently. Image credit: [link] ?The

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MARCH 16, 2025

This looming demographic cliff has been on the minds of education leaders for nearly two decades, dating back to the start of the Great Recession. In the years to come, schools at all levels reliant on per-pupil funding for K-12 and on tuition dollars for colleges and universities will begin feeling the squeeze.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Our responsibility is to ensure we have educated our students to capably deal with these challenges and identify the solutions.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Students with Disabilities.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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JUNE 23, 2022

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. It’s forcing K-12 to think differently in a way out of necessity,” Parton said. “It’s Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Chaudhary is co-founder of the education technology provider ClassDojo, which enables kindergarten through eighth grade students, teachers and parents to share content, schedules and feedback — an obvious and critical need as education abruptly became remote. Related: Another problem with shifting education online: cheating.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic poses many dangers to American higher education. Last year, my organization, the American Council on Education , released a report showing that while communities of color have made tremendous educational headway over the last several decades, substantial and pervasive inequities remain.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

Starting this fall, Alabama high school students can choose to take these classes or any other state-approved career and technical education courses in place of upper level math and science, such as Algebra 2 or chemistry. adults have a lot of confidence in higher education, according to a 2024 Gallup poll. Department of Education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. Below, you’ll find our 10 most popular early childhood stories from the last 12 months, which can loosely be divided into two camps. But there aren’t enough teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

As vital as that funding was, it was insufficient to address the many systemic problems impacting early childhood education and its workforce, including inequitable wages. Wages for early childhood workers already lag far behind those of their K-8 colleagues who have similar credentials. times higher than other teachers.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Outdated education fails to dispel this disinformation. From the basic genetics taught in K–12 schools to university courses, biology curricula desperately need an overhaul. and other colonized lands, racism has influenced people’s access to nutritious food, education, economic opportunities, health care, safety, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

One of the central promises of education in America is the opportunity to cultivate the knowledge and skills we all need to get good jobs, pursue careers and live productive lives. If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

strengthening regionally specific industry-educator partnerships. The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Read the complete KVEC case study here. million from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

COVID-19 has laid bare a long-standing challenge to America’s economic landscape: an underpaid, underappreciated, and underprepared workforce that has recently faced the harshest of economic blows. Individual anxiety may have also swelled over time, weighing heavily on their current ability to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. Even “global authorities” can screw up!

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. The post Teach About Immigration appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2021

These partners were selected as part of our landscape research on how micro-credentials may be used to promote economic recovery among rural learners impacted by poverty, particularly for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. The five selected partners are: Developing educator-industry partnerships. Region(s) : Statewide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. It has amplified HBCUs’ underfunding by putting new strains on education budgets. Across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked. Underinvestment in school infrastructure in Michigan led to a roof collapse at a high school, fortunately happening overnight when no students or educators were in the building. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. The adoption of data science education hasn’t been without controversy. Subscribe today! Using federal grants, N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? 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. But what if he’s right?

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Student interest in computer science far exceeds access to computer science education, especially among historically underserved populations. Findings from a recent Gallup survey note that student interest in computer science far exceeds access to computer science education, especially among historically underserved populations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

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. Subscribe today! Many of [my students], being rural, spend a lot of their free time outdoors,” she said.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

In the heart of the Deep South, Mississippi has wrestled with enduring educational disparities, a profoundly rooted challenge passed down through generations. Mississippi’s past, marked by a legacy of racial segregation and educational inequality, continues to cast a long shadow on its present and future.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

charter school may be a front-runner in providing financial education, but in recent years, many others have followed suit. states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

Mathematics achievement is a national challenge, with persistent inequities across K-12 student subpopulations. As a foundation for all STEM disciplines, low math proficiency limits access to economic opportunity, and the failures of the current K-12 education system disproportionately impact students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. Peter Adams, senior vice president of education, News Literacy Project. Whether focused on media literacy or data literacy, research suggests a need for this type of education in general.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

While the end of the pandemic is likely still months off, the White House has called for most K-8 schools to reopen by May, with in-person instruction at least one day a week, prolonging the possibility of distance learning. Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, like with all new technology in education, the promise is coupled with uncertainty. Perhaps the biggest question on the minds of educators, caretakers and policymakers is this: How can we best integrate these new capabilities into our education system to set up students for success in the classroom and beyond?

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