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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

ED Surge

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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

Cult of Pedagogy

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. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Stewart, A.

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OPINION: The first step toward promoting women into education leadership? Stop paying men more

The Hechinger Report

The causes of the gender wage gap in education are complex and rooted in a long history of women making less than men in every profession, even ones where women have traditionally worked. Julia Rafal-Baer is Chief Operating Officer of Chiefs for Change , a bipartisan network of state and district education chiefs.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Another potential answer is offered in a second new book, How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation , by E.D. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward.

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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Education leaders have long called for expanded postsecondary pathways. Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.