Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies.

Pedagogy 244

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

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. Should taxpayers not welcome redress?

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MARCH 20, 2023

When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education.

Education 111

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

Private School 145

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This continued a trend that was underway before Covid, when students from families earning $120,000 a year or more were receiving an average of $9,400 in financial aid from bachelor’s degree-granting colleges in excess of what the government says they needed to afford to pay, according to the College Board.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

High School 111

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APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. We must do better for all children.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” The only educational institution in Issaquena County, Miss., “I’m going to make sure they’re going to college. Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

Elementary School 77

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs.

Sociology 109

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AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

Government 73

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JUNE 11, 2017

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. I prefer the traditional system.”. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says.

High School 72

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Private School 68

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. More than a third of the district’s students were Hispanic and another 20 percent were black, multiracial, Native American, Asian or Pacific Islander.

K-12 103

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

Education 73

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

The event often felt like a pep rally for options beyond traditional school districts, where enrollment fell in the pandemic and is expected to drop another five percent by 2031. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

Advocacy 140

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MAY 2, 2024

We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. At UCF, the student government counts on staff members to run an annual diversity training. Still, Armato wonders, “Is this going to blow up on me?”

Sociology 130

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With the election over, now is the time for legislators and leaders in states and the federal government to turn their attention back to education. Of course, our leadership problems are exacerbated by our wildly decentralized, 13,000-district, every-leader-for-herself approach to school governance.

Leadership 144

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

Though some staff, such as those in marketing and accounting roles, work traditional business hours, many who work in guest services and support park operations are working on weekends, in the evenings and over holidays. government for some far-off future. They’re already here, and employees are already taking advantage of them.

K-12 101

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Department of Education has invited applications for $68 million in grants for community schools, representing almost four times more money than was made available in 2018. Our current predominant school design is akin to a traditional telephone: a simple two-way system of delivery wherein teachers teach and students learn.

Tradition 110

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

If it’s included in the reconciliation package, it could fund programs like Degrees When Due, the umbrella initiative organized by the Institute for Higher Education Policy that Bishop State was participating in to reenroll students. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030.

Education Policy 106

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JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The George W.

K-12 108

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve In other districts where state-appointed boards have taken over, academic outcomes haven’t improved.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

ITT Educational Services, one of the largest operators of for-profit technical schools, ended operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes recently, citing government action to curtail the company’s access to millions of dollars in federal loans and grants, a critical source of revenue.

Government 83

Government Education Policy Tradition History 83

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

Stephanie Hawk, tribal state policy liaison, NIEA The state’s executive order has caused confusion among teachers who taught Native American history and culture using the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, said Roquel Gorneau, a South Dakota education specialist for the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes. “A

American History 145

American History History K-12 Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Durst was an unusual choice given his lack of school experience and the IFF’s hostility to public education. (In In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”)

Elementary School 142

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MARCH 28, 2025

The data collection was nearly finished and ready to be released to the public, but in February, Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated the contract for this data collection, which is part of the National Household Education Survey, along with 88 other education contracts.

Government 128

Government Private School Research Education Policy 128

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Such outcomes remind us that we need to keep the needs of all children in mind when we craft educational policy. Traditional public schools educate 90 percent of the kids in America. Does it really make sense to pursue policies that will make our educational system more unequal than it already is?

Public School 104

Public School Tradition Charter School Education 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Zell assumes that all college students fit into the traditional stereotype of being between 18 and 22 years old, unmarried, supported by their parents and without kids. student in Education Policy at Vanderbilt University and an alumna of the University of Mississippi. Christine Dickason is a Ph.D. Cara DeLoach is a Ph.D.

Leadership 131

Leadership Education Policy Government Tradition 131

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

However, by April 2018, Nicaraguans’ frustrations with an increasingly dictatorial government led to demonstrations that endured for five days before they were brutally suppressed by President Daniel Ortega’s police and military. In time, Keyla felt comfortable enough with me to seek help outside the traditional tutoring role of the program.

Tutoring 52

Tutoring Anthropology Pedagogy Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

At the state level, funds that were targeted for local education agencies are diverted to vouchers for individual children, a sharp loss in the funding that states historically have provided to school districts. Money is siphoned from traditional public schools and towards a diverse array of unregulated for-profit and private providers.

Charter School 112

Charter School Private School Tradition Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education has financed dozens of national, state and local elections to push what has been proven to be harmful education policy. A traditional journalist’s capacity to speak freely is a liberty professional educators should enjoy, but seldom do.

Advocacy 89

Advocacy Education Charter School Tradition 89

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2017

Charter schools on average don’t distinguish themselves from their traditional school peers. At the same time, charter schools tend to undermine an education innovation that has proven to work: racial and economic integration. DeVos and Trump regularly criticized the federal involvement in education.

Charter School 83

Charter School Education Economics Tradition 83

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The education policy platform of President-elect Donald J. He’s mentioned school choice – specifically, giving poor students vouchers to attend any school, whether private, traditional public or charter – and various experts estimate that will cost $20 billion in federal spending and another $110 billion from the states.

Educational Technology 95

Educational Technology Education Education Policy Government 95

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2008, the school helped pilot UNESCO’s “Breaking the Silence: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project,” a resource for educators that addresses the history and scope of slavery. UNESCO also develops educational tools on topics such as gender equality, global citizenship, education in emergencies, and climate change.

Human Rights 127

Human Rights Education Heritage Library 127