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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice

ED Surge

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Unfortunately, many governing bodies such as State Boards of Education and State Legislatures make participating in the policy-making process nearly impossible for teachers.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government.