The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children. 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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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 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.”. Micro-credentials can help transform the teaching profession. Leveraging and recognizing expertise.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

Education 142

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 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.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). The disputes over whether a teacher needs a license to teach are not over.

Leadership 115

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The Hechinger Report

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. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Tim Abram, a Teach for America alumnus, says he moved on from teaching to work in public policy. This is something he has in common with a lot of Teach for America alums. Abram studied public-policy leadership at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and minored in African American studies. JACKSON, Miss.—Tim

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

Citing years of ‘across-the-board money with no accountability [while] Iowa kind of stagnated, ’ he decided to teach our schools a lesson and took some of their money away so that they will learn how to operate more efficiently under austerity conditions, much like Greece and its European Union creditors. We can do better!

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

Photo by zhang kaiyv on Pexels.com A little while ago I had the opportunity to chat with a teacher who is 20 odd years into their teaching career. The value of experienced teachers in our schools Retention of experienced teaching staff really matters for young people in our schools but also for less experienced members of staff.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As an example of what that entails, consider the More Teaching Less Testing Act from NY Representative Jamaal Bowman. The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Teaching Machines.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. The new federal law, called the Every Student Succeeds Act, provides money and guidance for states to pursue new models of education. And the state’s leadership has remained consistent. “A

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The Hechinger Report

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Why hasn’t innovation in teaching and learning cascaded to underserved populations? The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

A PhD candidate at Harvard University tilts his screen while teaching an online class from his dorm. But while all of this is widely being referred to as online higher education, most of it isn’t. “The Credit: (Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

School districts estimate that this fall they will have over 1,000 teaching positions unfilled or terminated across the state as they struggle to pay the bills. Yes, some of our districts have teacher leadership monies in addition to the 1.25% allowable growth funding. 5 big questions for the Iowa Council on Educator Development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another. Nonwhite students who see few or no nonwhite faculty may feel unsupported on their way to even associate or bachelor’s degrees, never mind decide to go into university teaching. “If

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. He plans to become a physical education teacher. “It Photo: Jamie Martines. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. “It’s not just about getting them in the door. Many students balance college and jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. “Am Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 That degree program is not free.

Economics 144

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”

High School 76

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 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.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). The disputes over whether a teacher needs a license to teach are not over.

Leadership 48

Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 48

The Hechinger Report

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. It’s a question he can’t get out of his mind.

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Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To quote Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, in most states the Proficient label is “significantly above” what most state policymakers and assessments deem as ‘grade level,’ and the more accurate NAEP proficiency level for most states would be closer to Basic.

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Public School Elementary School Leadership High School 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition.

Education 0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

On the social side, younger children look for guidance to older students who know the ropes, while the older students in the classroom organically learn about mentoring, leadership and collaboration. For multiage classrooms to work, schools need to set their curriculums and teaching schedules differently.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. Rethinking remedial education. The stubborn achievement gap between white students and students of color is at least partly due to systemic inequities.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

Introduction: The teaching of climate education has undergone a change in recent years. 2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022). Dunlop et al.

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Geography Economics Classroom Management Teaching 52

ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Whatever the Governor’s intention, you cannot adequately address the teaching shortage crisis when teachers have such a small voice in the process. Apply to a teaching policy fellowship.

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Education Policy Education Government Advocacy 107

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

AUGUST 15, 2022

Our current predominant school design is akin to a traditional telephone: a simple two-way system of delivery wherein teachers teach and students learn. The more school systems that apply for these grants, the greater the benefit to our nation’s education as a whole. Community schools are more like smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Starting when he was in middle school, I could have taken a stronger role in overseeing his schoolwork by editing his papers, re-teaching certain subjects and hiring tutors in others. I could have pushed him to take on leadership positions in clubs he didn’t care about. Instead, I taught my son how to be a good education consumer.

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Tutoring Middle School Leadership Education Policy 104

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For a teacher like Wallace to take a risk and try a new instructional approach, she said, the education ecosystem has to have the right conditions to support her. You gotta have the willingness of the leadership team to be flexible,” she said. “If If leadership sees the benefits, it allows for creativity to happen.”

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