A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2024

Influential leaders guide and inspire their teams and play a crucial role in shaping educational policies and practices that meet diverse student needs. Strong leadership fosters a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration, which are essential for adapting to a disruptive world.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It is further understood that use of a personal device is restricted to those activities as required or related to the student''s program of study and any use otherwise may be subject to disciplinary action including loss of device use privileges.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What results is the proliferation of an industrialized model of education that reformers claim they want to get away from, but the policies they support only help to sustain it. The structure and function of the majority of schools in this country is the exact opposite of the world that our learners are growing up in.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2025

One idea that has taken hold in many districts: repurposing these empty school buildings into early care and education centers. Its a natural fit, says Aaron Loewenberg, a senior policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at New America, a think tank.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

public school students have been diagnosed with a disability and receive services, according to the most recent data, so this debate over special education placement affects not only the academic prospects of students with disabilities but also the cost and structure of the whole educational system. Roughly 15 percen t of U.S.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Cindy Cisneros is vice president, education programs at the Committee for Economic Development (CED) of The Conference Board. Her career spans more than 25 years in education policy and research in the public and nonprofit sectors. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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MARCH 20, 2025

One such person, Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings, interprets the studies as showing that students perform similarly on math and reading tests in public and private schools, except in urban charter schools where students performed slightly better.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

“It’s crucial for colleges to still target their limited resources to students with the lowest incomes,” said Diane Cheng, vice president of research and policy at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. That’s a pretty substantial share,” said Cheng.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ED Surge

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, “educational policy and decision-makers at the local, state, and federal level should use their power to align priorities, educational strategies, and technology adoption decisions to place the academic needs of students ahead of the excitement about emerging AI capabilities.”

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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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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