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Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. But the increasing focus on industry needs in K-12 has also drawn criticism.

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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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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. School leadership in England 2010 to 2020: characteristics and trends, [link] DfE (2024).

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Andre Perry, a contributing writer, is the former founding dean of urban education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Mich. The post Charter backers can stop the NAACP moratorium — by meeting these four demands appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 23, 2019

Race to the Top helped to usher in a new era of data collection, school turnarounds and innovation that focused on added resources and reforms, and that sparked widespread changes to K-12 public education.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Teaching academic self-confidence, leadership skills and social emotional learning all ranked higher that teaching above grade level content. “Teachers and educators are not super supportive of acceleration,” said Betsy McCoach, one of the researchers and a professor at the University of Connecticut.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I And still other schools have made changes only to have them reversed when leadership or other circumstances change. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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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. Intensive teacher training for instructors specific to career and technical education.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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JUNE 11, 2017

The modern high school building, with its wide hallways, sunny classrooms and up-to-date science labs, would seem the perfect setting for the education model of the future. Ted Finn, Gray-New Gloucester’s third principal in five years, acknowledged that the changing leadership has made the transition tricky.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Michael Hansen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, is among a number of experts who say minority students may be underperforming because they don’t have role models in positions of authority — people who are helping them, and who also look like them.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

As part of an alternative teacher-licensing program designed to attract high-performing college graduates to the profession of teaching to groom their leadership skills, TFA teachers in Mississippi hardly ever start as education majors. It’s a lot of work, a lot of hard work over a long period of time.”

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MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. In 2015, the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab helped developed the nation’s first research-based standards for principal supervisors.

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MAY 31, 2017

According to a Department of Education policy statement, children suspended in the early school years are 10 times more likely to drop out of high school , experience academic failure and grade retention, hold negative attitudes about school and face incarceration, than those who are not. “So,

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MAY 21, 2019

They complain that competition remains the central tenet of New Orleans’s education system, and that local control has only given more affluent families yet another advantage. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Loading… The district made more progress integrating black students after 2008 than it had in the previous 15 years, according to an analysis of school segregation data by Meredith Richards, an assistant professor of education policy and leadership at Southern Methodist University. A strategy with a Montessori in mind.

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MAY 9, 2017

That’s because Parker offers what may be the nation’s most ambitious and comprehensive take on multiage education in middle and high school, breaking grades 7 to 12 into three divisions, with each division blending two grades together. Multiage education, say its proponents, puts learners at the center, socially and academically.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Related: COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever. First, we have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education. Of course, our leadership problems are exacerbated by our wildly decentralized, 13,000-district, every-leader-for-herself approach to school governance.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There was evidence about the inequalities in school facilities before Covid,” said Diana Quintero, a senior research analyst with the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. funding for K-12 facilities remains “inherently and persistently inequitable,” according to a 2016 report. Across the U.S.,

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JULY 25, 2016

Over the course of President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, a coalition formed among his administration, governors, many of whom are Republican, and big city education reformers. That said, there’s been a gulf between leadership endorsements and rank-and-file sentiment… That’s especially the case in trade and manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Over the past several months, though, the Trump administration has proposed or put in place a series of education policies rooted in colorblindness, policies that reverse previous guidelines that many school districts have used to help them determine how they examine and address the racial disparities plaguing our schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Republicans and many Democrats ran successfully last year demanding that the Department of Education stop using billions in federal aid to skew local decision-making. The new Every Student Succeeds Act , replacing No Child Left Behind, was passed in large measure to return education policies to states and local districts.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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MAY 12, 2020

The lack of presidential leadership contributes to the vast uncertainty we all face. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2 billion the CARES Act allocated for K-12 education is woefully inadequate. Most education policy experts recognize that the $13.2

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2016

In the last 20 years, Republican education policy has focused on expanding the choices granted to local communities, families and students. During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

School voucher programs may give anxious parents public money to pay for private education, but there’s not much evidence that they help students or the public schools they’re leaving behind. Worse yet, some of conservatives’ K–12 ideas are at war with themselves. So look, conservatives: You’ve got to figure something out.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And he seemed to reference a much reduced role for the Education Department, if not its actual elimination. Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he looked forward to learning more about her but otherwise withheld judgment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the case of forecasting what education policies Kamala Harris might pursue as president, though, a more apt analogy might be reading her mind. Frankly it’s anyone’s guess what her education policies would be given how few clues we have. Predicting the future is often compared to reading tea leaves. Bush administration.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you. Kirk] Right.

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