Mon.Jul 24, 2023

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The Power of Community Mentors in Building Student-Led Professional Development

Digital Promise

Students and educators from Bristol Township School District, in partnership with Bristol Cares, built a student leadership and community mentorship program

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PROOF POINTS: High schoolers account for nearly 1 out of every 5 community college students

The Hechinger Report

When you think of a college student, you might imagine a young adult leaving home, moving into a dorm, navigating a campus and maybe attending a fraternity party. That’s an outdated image. We’ve written a lot about how older adults with jobs and children are a giant group on campus. But a more surprising species is spreading through the college registrar’s rolls: teenagers living at home, taking yellow buses to high school and maybe scrambling home before curfew.

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Expertise as Elaboration: Teachers’ Reflections on an AI Tool-Embedded Writing Rubric

ED Surge

AI-driven tools may signal the integration of technology into learning in profound ways; however, the long trajectory of edtech has not yet changed the fundamental organizing structure between teacher and student. Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways.

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OPINION: How San Francisco public schools got math instruction wrong

The Hechinger Report

One would hope the math education of our students would be built on a solid foundation of evidence. That has not been our experience as parents and school committee membersin the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which is often singled out as an example of math success. Educators five years ago praised the city’s so-called innovative move to delay Algebra I to ninth grade for all public school students, proclaiming “ How one city got math right.

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Why Do So Few Black Men Become Teachers?

ED Surge

Students in American K-12 schools are increasingly diverse. But that diversity is often missing in the teachers at the front of classrooms. That’s especially true when it comes to the number of teachers who are Black men: the group makes up only 1.3 percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year.

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