A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2014

While most of us deal with a bureaucratic mess of redundancies when it comes to developing educational policy, New Milford is bucking the trend of reactive policies that come from a changing political landscape.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Among these is Everyday Advocacy , a volunteer committee of educators. Everyday Advocacy helps teachers, and all who care about children’s learning, to actively and thoughtfully address issues around education policy, especially those concerned with censorship and book-banning.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Instead the programs are set up to prepare principals in a “general way” to work across grade levels, said Laura Bornfreund, director of early & elementary education policy at New America. “A Laura Bornfreund, director of early & elementary education policy at New America.

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MAY 12, 2024

If educational leaders fully grasp the profound impact Black principals have on the Black teacher pipeline, they’ll push to increase the share of Black principals — who, for decades, have called for greater attention to Black teacher recruitment and retention.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That’s what we all are holding our breath about right now,” said Karin Garver, an early childhood education policy specialist at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), who recently published a report that looked at how the pandemic could impact state-funded pre-K. Out of 39 states, including Washington D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2024

The debate reignited among university professors during the pandemic with the 2021 online publication of a commentary in the journal Educational Psychology Review. But the authors of the 2021 article said the council’s references for this policy change were “theoretical ideas packaged in conceptual articles rather than empirical evidence.”

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Other educational policies can challenge the structural forces directly contributing to racial biases in schools, such as reforming school discipline, equity-focused school finance reform and school integration. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University.

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JULY 16, 2021

Alejandra Acosta, a higher education policy analyst at New America and an author of the report, said: “We all knew that the internet was important before the pandemic but didn’t realize how important it was. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Rules about how old the student is permitted to be or how many credit hours can be taken, for example, create unforeseen challenges, said Tiffany Jones, Education Trust’s senior director of higher education policy. Tiffany Jones, senior director of higher education policy, The Education Trust.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Support Network Engagement: Authentically involving youth in education policy creates opportunities for students of color to establish a supportive structure of peers and young leaders. Creating roles for students in education policy discussions can help ensure the system is serving the community's best interest.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Liu, who is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, surmises that taking a class in computer science helps some students overcome popular misconceptions about coding. “It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 2, 2022

‘Research does not show that using interim assessments improves student learning,’ said Susan Brookhart, professor emerita at Duquesne University and associate editor of the journal Applied Measurement in Education.” . All of that time. All of that energy. All of that effort. Most of it for nothing.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Novel Finding Meanwhile, Black and Hispanic students are more likely than those in other groups to live in a college desert, according to research by Nicholas Hillman , a professor of educational policy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who was one of the first researchers to draw attention to the effects of college location on educational (..)

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Andrés Bernasconi, a professor at the Center for the Study of Educational Policy and Practice at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Free tuition was “an expression of a principle and the principle was that education is the right of the people,” he says. “It

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APRIL 22, 2020

How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters. Most states slashed higher-education funding in the wake of the Great Recession, and 10 years later, funding still hasn’t recovered. Tiffany Jones is director of higher education policy at The Education Trust.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. 1 Including pay for performance, knowledge- and skills-based pay, career ladder programs, and market-based pay.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Greater levels of representation benefit students from all different backgrounds,” study co-author Nicholas Bowman, a professor of educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa, told EdSurge. That was true for all students — and especially true for the minority and first-generation students themselves.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B.

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JULY 10, 2023

There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The tool that helped identify the gaps in the first place is called the Knowledge Map , developed at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy based on the value of content knowledge. In the United States, schools tend to focus on helping students develop concrete skills, like finding the main idea in a paragraph.

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JULY 14, 2020

You can’t just stick these kids in the corner,” said Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America, a Washington, D.C., based think tank that has studied both special and bilingual education. Elena Silva, director of PreK-12 for the Education Policy Program at New America.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

It’s encouraging institutions to make better programs,” said Eddy Conroy, senior adviser in education policy at the left-leaning think tank New America. “If If you come out of any program in higher education you should be able to make more than the average high school graduate.”.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. EST March 11 about the medical, legal, educational, logistical and equity issues that schools should be thinking about as they consider taking classes online.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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APRIL 15, 2022

Her work is an extension of research started by Education Trust in 2020 with a National Black Student Loan Debt Study survey of 1,300 Black borrowers and the subsequent Jim Crow Debt report , which identified college debt as a racial and economic justice issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper. There’s this idea that you should invest in early childhood and that’s it,” Bhatt said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

“The teachers and the teaching practices that can increase test scores often are not the same as those that improve student-reported engagement,” said David Blazar, one of the study’s co-authors and an associate professor of education policy at the University of Maryland College Park.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. All meaningful efforts to promote educational equity begin with evidence about what works and what doesn’t. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s time for adults to recognize and help caregiving adolescents through federal, state and local educational policies, so they do not need to choose between caregiving and school activities. But an estimated one in five have even bigger responsibilities — they are also caregivers for their families, at a time when most U.S.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I could make lots of excuses related to our move from Iowa to Colorado: a new home, a new community, new schools, a new job, and a new educational policy environment. So I’ll do just that, beginning tomorrow. But the bottom line is that I’ve dropped the ball.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015. Let’s use this current round of CRDC data to spur action to give our students better choices than the one my students faced.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lawmakers, university presidents, deans and all those who decide on and carry out educational policies should understand that students like me are no longer settling for simply being allowed into higher education institutions. We now demand what we all deserve: structures and mechanisms that support our educational growth.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

On the Hook Accessibility has become a major focus area in education policy. Department of Education flagged “access” as one of three major technological divides — access, design and use — that can prevent students from fully engaging with education. The revised national edtech plan from the U.S.

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