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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.

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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 111
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Charter backers can stop the NAACP moratorium — by meeting these four demands

The Hechinger Report

Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. The NAACP resolution calls for school districts and the federal government to create structures that hold charter schools to the same standards to which they hold traditional public schools.

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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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Why Maine’s new high school graduation rules could hurt more than help

The Hechinger Report

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”