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Elevating Youth Voice in Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

ED Surge

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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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

Civics 143
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PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors.

The Hechinger Report

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. In the middle of the pilot, school leadership changed, layoffs hit, and the leaders of the tutoring initiative left the district.

Tutoring 133
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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

The Hechinger Report

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. The idea to reinvent the education system began about ten years ago, and enjoyed long-term support because people rallied around the idea that schools could help improve communities, Barry said.

Education 104
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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. Chicago Review. Princeton University Press. Watters, A.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

ED Surge

“You gotta have the willingness of the leadership team to be flexible,” she said. “If If leadership sees the benefits, it allows for creativity to happen.” questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader.