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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Liu, who is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, surmises that taking a class in computer science helps some students overcome popular misconceptions about coding. “It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires.

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MARCH 11, 2020

If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers? The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. Outschool has also offered a series of free trainings about “telelearning,” with a handful scheduled for March 11.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Problems such as low graduation rates , dismal student achievement and high student turnover at many K12 schools are the result of a business model that prioritizes keeping down the costs of educating students, said Neil Campbell, director of innovation for K-12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning policy institute.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. 1 Including pay for performance, knowledge- and skills-based pay, career ladder programs, and market-based pay.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

. “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. Grades eight through 12 are larger cohorts who were born before 2008. birthrate hit a 30-year low.

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APRIL 29, 2019

There’s no evidence to show that a one-day training for teachers and staff will foster change,” says Circe Stumbo, president of West Wind Education Policy, an Iowa-based group that provides analysis of school equity policies. Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Other educational policies can challenge the structural forces directly contributing to racial biases in schools, such as reforming school discipline, equity-focused school finance reform and school integration. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. This is dire. Eugene Pringle Jr.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

TNTP’s research found that 38 percent of classrooms with mostly students of color had no grade-level assignments, versus only 12 percent of classrooms with mostly white students. Neil Campbell is the director of innovation for K-12 education policy at the Center for American Progress.

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MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul.

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JANUARY 29, 2017

At the same time, K-12 education systems across the country are focusing more than ever on producing “college-ready” students. This disconnect between the K-12 and higher education systems has long been an issue, according to José Luis Santos, vice president of higher education policy and practice at the Education Trust.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

According to the study, since 2021, 44 states have introduced more than 140 anti-CRT laws or bans related to concepts allegedly being taught in K-12. “We For generations to come these narratives could undermine people’s support for public education and funding and things like that,” she said.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Nationally, a dozen other states now offer ESAs, also known as education savings accounts, that incentivize parents to withdraw their kids from the public K-12 system. Then, in 2022, state leaders expanded eligibility to all K-12 students and removed the requirement of initial public school attendance.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. It’s their job to set education policy priorities, and they’re doing it.”.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

But some education experts worry the focus on industry qualifications has resulted in schools taking on responsibilities that should fall to businesses, like training workers for specific job duties, to the detriment of a more comprehensive education in schools. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue. Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators. The measure has stalled for now.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students. What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

Motivated by this shared belief, more than 275 higher education and K-12 district leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, investors, policymakers, and educators gathered on May 3rd and 4th in Washington, D.C. “ What works ought to drive what we put in front of our children. ” – Jim Shelton.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Education Equity Lab offers online courses from professors at top universities to high schoolers in low-income communities. Jill Norton, founder of Clark Street Consulting, supports nonprofits, foundations and government agencies to advance educational equity.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change?

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MARCH 30, 2020

Research on online learning in both K-12 and higher-education settings points consistently to uneven benefits of online learning by student subgroups. Patricia Burch is a professor at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Rossier Center on Education Policy, Equity and Governance.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The Heritage Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, wants lawmakers to take additional steps: changing the rules for 529 plans to allow families more school choice at the K-12 and help them pay for a bevy of other options. Several education policy experts, however, says these plans — regardless of how they’re used — are flawed.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

“We know Black students are punished more frequently and more harshly, but what we didn’t really know was how much all of this discipline was shared across educators versus perpetuated by just a few educators,” says Emily K. The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer.

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JUNE 20, 2017

education policy? In these ways, students can bring added value to both education policy and practice. Too many of us students feel we have no power to shape our environment, resulting in a vicious cycle where students don’t share our perspectives and educators don’t seek them out. Australia offers a sneak peek.

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MAY 10, 2016

And it has become all the more important as modern Internet connections and computers are more common than ever in K-12 schools. As a former educator and school information technology leader, he was inspired to create a solution. They want to know how it’s being used, and what kind of training their teachers need.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. “Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era? Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Once an English learner becomes proficient at English, her achievement data moves out of the English learner tributary into the “mainstream” designation of all K–12 students. Fortunately, some states are innovating with new data policies. Secondly, English learners are a constantly overturning group of students.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Now, with the gold rush long over, the logging industry nearly collapsed and few good jobs left in the area, the local K-12 school graduates fewer than 35 students a year. And, due to the wording of the Idaho constitution, McFarlane and his team can’t even use any of the district’s state K-12 funding for the 4-year-olds they serve.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Through All City Council, Oakland students have a louder voice in local education policy than students in many cities, but young people say it’s not enough. The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. “I

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The historically majority-white district, which served 14,150 K-12 students, 61 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2018-19 school year, has seen a recent influx of immigrants from around the world. The average GPA for 10 th through 12 th graders who participate in music here is 3.35.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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.” deBoer has taught in both the K-12 and college setting, and he has served as an academic assessment manager at a college.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While there are many ways to invest in children younger than 5, I chose to focus on preschool since it is the early years program most closely correlated with K-12 education, my primary focus as an education reporter. and a timeline of the major early education policy changes dating back to the late 19 th century.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Minnesota, a series of workshops offered across the state aims to educate school leaders and teachers on child development and pre-K through third grade work.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Photo by Frans van Heerden on Pexels.com More experienced teachers in mentoring roles are often, as demonstrated by the teacher at the beginning of this blog, able to be more speculative about the pressures of school and education policy. Gore, J., & Thomas, K. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education , 34 (1), 95–113.

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