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Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies. [link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A. Chicago Review. Watters, A.

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JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? For schools, the student perspective is integral to a more complete picture of the system. In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Yet our schools, intentionally or not, often advance a sense of learned-helplessness.

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BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. A lot of children rely on their time in a school building for relative stability, for food, for a relatively safe environment,” Prince said. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

America’s schools and communities are more diverse than ever — particularly in regards to language. For the first time in history, our public schools are majority minority. But there’s no question that dual immersion programs can foster more integration in more public schools.

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JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. But public schools don’t look like the public. John King, the first African American to be appointed as the U.S.

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APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. School leaders say they appreciate that flexibility, but it can also translate into extra work. “I

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Stevens, for example, wants to know why advocates are so eager to believe that a public school system that hardly leads the international pack can be expected to offer high quality preschool programs. “I On the one hand, we do spend billions each year on public preschool. … I dug into the history and research on Head Start.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Only 3 percent of parents, in another Rand survey conducted this July , said they would send their youngest school-age child to full-time virtual school if the pandemic were over. “We For Zion, the school day starts at 9 a.m. Heather Schwartz, co-author of Rand surveys on virtual learning. “We and lasts until 3 p.m.,

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data. Rochester City School District recorded the second most, with 854. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. He liked getting to see friends every day.

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MAY 21, 2019

He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. The state-run Recovery School District, which assumed control of nearly every public school in the city during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, already had its own plans for the Gentilly Terrace campus.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The bill, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, would also make more money and regulatory flexibility available to for-profit colleges, many of which have been cited for high costs, low graduation rates and a history of taking advantage of low-income students and military veterans.

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MAY 30, 2018

When New Schools for New Orleans announced the competitive grant contest, 23 schools — about a quarter of all public schools in New Orleans — expressed interest by attending workshops on personalized learning. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. Chris Minnich, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin Middle School in Dillon dates to 1896 and was still in use when then-Senator Barack Obama visited in 2007 during his presidential campaign. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Photo: Alan Richard. DILLON, S.C. — In 2007, when U.S. Obama toured the old J.V.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history.

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APRIL 12, 2023

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest daughter to kindergarten at a local public school. And so they just don’t, so there is no Native history being taught.”

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. Overall, 73 percent of participants said funds should go to public schools.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a district that’s been out of the business of directly managing schools for five years, it is a tentative step toward a new era in the city where permanent, traditional neighborhood schools are more commonplace. NOLA Public Schools, the district’s official name, has about 41,600 students, 75 percent of whom are Black.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Once a Public Servant, Always a Public Servant Plenty of former educators hold public office today, including at the federal level, such as Sen. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. He’s running for a seat on the Frederick County Board of Education this November.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Credit: Joseph Bui for The Hechinger Report Supporters of takeovers say students’ futures are at stake and that the strategies help jolt failing school systems into better performance. Citizens who spoke almost uniformly opposed the proposal, with many arguing it was the first step in an effort to privatize district public schools.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. Public Schools. and Why has school not been working? In 2018, D.C.

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MARCH 28, 2022

“I learned way more than I ever wanted to learn about textbooks, and way more than I ever wanted to learn about Alabama politics,” said Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher. Robert Norrell, a former University of Alabama history professor and textbook publisher.

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

This proposal would increase the amounts available for public preschool, mental health counselors, special education services and teacher training, among other educator priorities. “We’re Department of Education was created in 1979 by former President Jimmy Carter, who appointed a judge, Shirley Hufstedler, to lead it.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

This copy includes the adoption of the bill known as SB 150, which limits the rights of LGBTQ+ youth in the state’s public schools. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report The Legislative Record from Monday, April 17, 2023, on display at the Owen County Public Library.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

With her money, she has gained access to politicians and influenced education policy throughout the country. She has championed the idea of “school choice” – the notion that parents should have freedom to send their kids to any school of their liking. Unlike most of you, DeVos has never attended a public school.

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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. The shift of funds away from public school districts creates further stresses on traditional public schools.

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MAY 18, 2017

Trump and his besieged education secretary Betsy DeVos would rob Peter, the public schools, to pay the Paul of charter schools and vouchers. At the same time, charter schools tend to undermine an education innovation that has proven to work: racial and economic integration.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to breaking up cliques, on a more systemic level, school districts have to push for integrated schools to counteract the social isolation of entire communities caused by education policy. All of this isolates low-income black and brown children in public schools.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Meredith: And Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was clearly not fully up to date on the history of racial segregation and its continuing impact when she first came into office, given her comment about HBCUs being pioneers of the school choice movement. Tara: A number of researchers have shown that’s misguided. Any final thoughts?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Donald Trump outlined his policy and philosophy for K-12 education in a speech at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy (CASSA) , a for-profit charter school in the largest city of battleground state of Ohio. Many private and faith-based schools would close without the public subsidy (welfare for the cynical).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Related: How deep coronavirus school budget cuts are expected to harm student achievement. During the last recession, between 2008 and 2010, public schools shed more than 120,000 teaching positions, according to school finance expert Michael Griffith of the Learning Policy Institute. This spring at Robert C.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It’s pretty hard to see how bathroom-usage policies will help kids recover from the pandemic’s academic consequences , or get more children ready for kindergarten, or more third graders ready to read on grade level. Now, there was a detailed conservative plan for federal K–12 education drifting around during the campaign.

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