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 ). Will teachers be recognized for their leadership in ways that they find meaningful?

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. But we haven’t formalized these roles as part of every child’s educational experience.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper.

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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. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

At least that is the conclusion I reached after looking at data on more than 400 traditional public middle schools in New York City, where the rankings are dominated by students’ absolute proficiency levels. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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MARCH 24, 2019

Traditional Powerhouse (Underrepresented Student Graduation Rate) — Men’s teams: Yale leads the pack with a 97 percent graduation rate for underrepresented students. Martha Snyder is an education policy specialist with high-level experience supporting federal and state policymakers.

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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. The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Uneducated Guesses: Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2019

The causes of the gender wage gap in education are complex and rooted in a long history of women making less than men in every profession, even ones where women have traditionally worked. Julia Rafal-Baer is Chief Operating Officer of Chiefs for Change , a bipartisan network of state and district education chiefs.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But both are in regions where a drop in the number of traditional-age undergraduates is looming , according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. Unlike Hawai‘i Pacific, neither Creighton nor Fairfield has been experiencing enrollment declines on their home campuses, federal figures show.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

But two recent academic papers, synthesizing dozens of reading studies, are raising questions about the effectiveness of these expensive education policies. They were administered to children as either one-to-one tutoring sessions or in small groups.

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The Hechinger Report

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, 2020

Another potential answer is offered in a second new book, How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation , by E.D. Education policy over the last half century has mostly been predicated on the assumption that schooling is a singular mechanism for reducing poverty and advancing equity at scale.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense. Lisa Guernsey is the Deputy Director of the Education Policy program and Director of the Learning Technologies project at New America. . Today’s children and families experience screens and digital media everywhere.

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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. Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s It’s really a cultural shift,” said Virginia Barry, New Hampshire’s commissioner of education.

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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.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Many are older than the traditional 18- to 24-year-olds and have families and jobs; they come to class, but don’t have time to visit the counseling center. Students who leave cost colleges $16.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Issuing a 30-year bond to finance a new school building makes sense, says Ross Rubenstein, a professor at Georgia State University who specializes in public finance and education policy. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

“We did not expect to find that,” said Dennis Kramer, an assistant professor and director of the Education Policy Research Center at the University of Florida, who co-authored the research. Broward College, traditionally a two-year community college, has been offering four-year bachelor’s degrees since 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Secretary of Education John B. told educators, policy experts, and students that the next generation of high schools must “give every student an opportunity to have a vision for their own future.” In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MARCH 20, 2023

When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. Effective and accessible programs are necessary opportunities for workers, particularly those underserved by traditional 2- and 4-year pathways.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Many in higher education broadcast their commitments to diversity at the time, said Dominique Baker, an assistant professor of education policy at Southern Methodist University who studies college access and success. For that reason, it has traditionally benefited students from higher-income families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

The first such schools opened during the 2015-16 school year with flexibilities more typically granted to charter schools, even though these schools fall under the oversight of the traditional school district. At the start of the last school year, there were 20 Innovation Network Schools serving about 25 percent of the district’s students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” The only educational institution in Issaquena County, Miss., If his kids didn’t feel the same way, he’d set up a trust so it could never be sold. “My My dad worked so hard, and my grandfather worked so hard and sacrificed,” he said. Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

No one has completely bridged the gap, said David Steiner, executive director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University and a former commissioner of education for New York State. “No

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