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DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Kids this age are “practicing who they are in relation to a complicated social world, with hierarchies, rules and nuances,” said Ronald Dahl, the director of the Institute of Human Development at the University of California-Berkeley. They are learning at a phenomenal rate.”. And the way he works academically has changed too.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We propose that the department create an Office of Basic Needs dedicated to understanding and solving these issues.

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APRIL 16, 2018

This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. All meaningful efforts to promote educational equity begin with evidence about what works and what doesn’t. Higher Education. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

“The pandemic is incredibly hard for everyone and incredibly hard in particular for student parents,” said Dr. Su Jin Gatlin Jez, executive director of California Competes, a nonprofit focused on higher education policy and outcomes. Merwin said there also needs to be more understanding among campus staff for student parents.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Florida’s state board of education then accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students.” I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

More than 13,000 more students failed the algebra Regents exam in the most recent 2017-18 school year compared to the previous year, pushing the failure rate up from 25 percent to 30 percent, according to a December 2018 report by education policy consultant David Rubel. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Related: ‘We’ve failed them’: How South Carolina education policy hurts ‘Dreamers’ — and costs taxpayers. Cruelly, many of the state’s students still only have a minimally adequate education. This reality isn’t adequate or even humane for anyone. But the school recently saw its state report card rating tumble.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Related: Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education. The benefit to institutions seems fairly clear,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the think tank New America. “It

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Agencies and programs, including Medicaid, the Department of Education and the Department of Human Services, will be able to refer families and children in need to other agencies and programs. In the past, without these agencies being connected, “services were lost,” Smith said, and “gaps might not have been caught.”.

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JULY 13, 2020

One claimed there had been a huge decline in test scores that had been reversed by recent conservative changes in education policies, which was nonsense — there hadn’t been time for them to have an impact. We can’t escape the need to use human judgment in evaluating classrooms. There were two camps. This is controversial.

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JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Seeking inspiration, she turns to her phone where, for the last 10 months, she’s been receiving text messages with simple educational games, tips on how to engage with Katelynn and reminders of simple learning activities they can do together. Higher Education. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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MAY 29, 2020

Even if graduating high school seniors say they are only delaying their educations, and will eventually go to college, “their likelihood of actually enrolling a year or two years later is lower, and therefore their chances of getting a degree is lower,” said Watson Scott Swail, president and CEO of the Educational Policy Institute.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

While it is good news that these results are lighting a fire under the education policy world and highlighting the particular need among students of color, the traditional approach to improving results — more math, more reading, more pressure — seems dubious at best.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

That means investing in social reforms outside of education, Garcia explained in an interview, including unemployment insurance, Social Security disability insurance, and cash assistance. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: The survey found that instead of moving bright kids ahead to more advanced topics, gifted classrooms are preoccupied with activities to develop critical thinking and creativity, such as holding debates and brainstorming. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Why is innovation so hard in education? To Goodson, who has specialized in early childhood education research for 40 years, the problem is that learning is ultimately about changing human behavior and that is always difficult for adults and children. “This is the nature of R&D,” he said.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” These days he’s often weighing in on education policy issues in his personal newsletter. are losing pace with those of other nations and need significant reform.

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MARCH 12, 2018

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy , where I serve as a research analyst, investigated the country’s strongest models — and lessons learned from abroad — and released a policy report late last month. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: 3. Sign up for our newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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APRIL 7, 2024

The downturn has pushed community colleges to broaden their approach to recruitment, resulting in an increase in the number of students requiring more support and services, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 percent of doctorates in both the humanities and social sciences, but just 5.4 Although 13.3 percent of doctorates in the physical sciences. Hispanic or Latino students, meanwhile receive 7.2 percent in the physical sciences.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Pilot programs in 17 states have so far conferred about 20,000 associate degrees in this way over the last five years, a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy found. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Related: How to save the humanities? Choose as many as you like.

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MARCH 7, 2017

The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “We

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Though many states and districts have initiated strategies attempting to get more teachers of color into the classroom, my co-authors and I were skeptical that these efforts based in Human Resources offices were actually making much of a difference overall.

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APRIL 12, 2017

This human-first approach only makes it easier to learn, and opens students up to taking risks, accepting failure and ultimately achieving. In our diverse world, let’s listen deeply to each other, and work together to create education policies and practices through a lens of empathy. Related: Can virtual reality teach empathy?

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MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Some collection policies, like sending outstanding student account balances to collection agencies , are encouraged or facilitated by state law. Related: DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”. Together, these policies can lock students from low-income backgrounds in college debt purgatory.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. Some even earn degrees — but leave without getting them.

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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. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Bey said that as Zuberi goes through the course, things will begin to change for him, the same way they did for Bey when he first joined the program. Smartphones, however, offer limited access because several school data systems are more difficult to navigate on mobile devices.

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MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. He continued, “Recognition of the need is certainly there.”.

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