Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. Princeton University Press.

Pedagogy 259

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 259

The Hechinger Report

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.” My high school, like so many public schools today, offered very few AP classes. It stood firm in defense of the unit.

Psychology 98

Psychology History Teaching American History 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. Budgets reflect policy priorities. How big a priority are our public schools? Yes, some of our districts have teacher leadership monies in addition to the 1.25% allowable growth funding. Related Posts.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Leadership Education Policy Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

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?

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Charter School High School Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

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.

Charter School 101

Charter School Elementary School Public School Political Science 101

The Hechinger Report

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. She says by making cultural proficiency mandatory, “leadership is signaling that this work is important.

K-12 111

K-12 Cultures Library Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

At the time, Tennessee ranked near the bottom of all 50 states in student achievement, but Bredesen and a bipartisan group of legislators saw promise in Obama’s commitment to spurring much-needed changes in our nation’s public schools.

K-12 62

K-12 Charter School Professional Development Public School 62

The Hechinger Report

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.

Middle School 76

Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

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?

High School 145

High School Psychology Inclusive Curriculum Education Policy 145

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.

Leadership 144

Leadership K-12 Government Education Policy 144

ED Surge

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. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

High School 115

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

The ultimate goal of community schools is to ensure open pathways to academic success. Research from the RAND Corporation and the Learning Policy Institute and National Education Policy Center (LPI-NEPC) show that community schools are a good investment and an effective change strategy.

Tradition 115

Tradition Community Engagement Leadership Education Policy 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Citizens who spoke almost uniformly opposed the proposal, with many arguing it was the first step in an effort to privatize district public schools. HISD leadership is a disaster…. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.” It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2021

As the needs of the post-pandemic economy evolve and new Democratic leadership gets settled in Washington, several fabled ideas for revamping the Pell Grant program could have new life pumped into them. Amy Laitinen, director of higher education, New America think tank. But some advocates are wary.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Leadership Education Policy Government 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Children in Paterson, New Jersey would not be allowed to go to school in-person this fall, while many of their peers in predominantly white and affluent suburbs would return. Alston-Johnson attended Paterson public schools, as did her five children, and she has watched the buildings fall steadily into disrepair over the years.

K-12 145

K-12 Middle School Public School Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

Teachers unions, parents groups and organizations advocating for the separation of church and state have said that rulings in favor of the plaintiffs could open the door for all types of religious programs to become part of public schooling and give parents veto rights on what is taught. percent of all public school students.

Public School 141

Public School Charter School K-12 Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. Over the last decade and a half, the union — which represents the city’s public school teachers, nurses, counselors and support staff — has been nearly halved, its ranks shrinking from 21,000 to 11,000.

Education Policy 74

Education Policy Charter School Education Political Science 74

The Hechinger Report

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.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

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.

Charter School 81

Charter School K-12 Private School Public School 81

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.

Charter School 62

Charter School K-12 Education Education Policy 62

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: How would Project 2025 change education? public schools reeling. The post OPINION: Trump is back.

K-12 121

K-12 Heritage Leadership Civics 121

The Hechinger Report

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. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

Education 95

Education Private School K-12 Education Policy 95