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MAY 12, 2024

The roots of this issue go back to the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which declared that laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional. We built a comprehensive plan that focused on such policy changes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We The principal consultant focused on education for Assembly appropriations is female.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. 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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2019

In response, we’ve spent the last year developing a leadership program specifically for women in education. Women make up the vast majority of the education workforce, and based on our count of systems that our members lead, they remain a majority through the ranks of administration and top leadership teams.

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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.”. The results are already paying off for students and the educators who serve them. Some compelling examples are emerging.

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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. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. But in return for this freedom, states must come up with their own ways of ensuring that their schools give all students a high-quality, equitable education. Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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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.”. Quality control in the micro-credentialing ecosystem is a must—especially when value is attached to what educators accomplish.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They also recognised their mentee’s strengths and the need to give them time to develop aspects of their practice , understanding how important it is for the education ecosystem to attract and nurture new entrants into the profession. School leadership in England 2010 to 2020: characteristics and trends, [link] DfE (2024).

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

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. Ivory Toldson, NAACP.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Some educational materials end up mothballed in closets. One idea for smarter education spending is for schools to sign smarter contracts, where part of the payment is contingent upon whether students use the services and learn more. Many educators worried that billions could be wasted on low-quality tutors who didn’t help anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

’ It’s not that you don’t have enough money due to four historic years of inadequate education funding , it’s that you don’t spend it wisely… I completely agree. All sports, all clubs, all leadership opportunities… Why are you angry? That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The challenge is equity efforts in public education often fall short of their intentions. The world is inequitable by design—therefore, so is our education ecosystem. At Digital Promise our mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn with the goal of closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

First, an education leader stands behind a podium with charts and graphs, releases a memo, or otherwise puts the most recent scores out in the world. Teachers and students can point to how the NCLB-related tests have negatively impacted education. Standardized tests are part of the educational landscape, and they’re not going away.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

But while all of this is widely being referred to as online higher education, most of it isn’t. Online education is using digital technologies to transform the learning experience. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus. That is not what is happening right now.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Third, charter schools must cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate. If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”. Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. Education reform is status quo.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The American criminal justice system is filled with individuals from these underserved and marginalized groups, who stand to benefit from receiving high-quality educational opportunities. Our criminal justice system contains the populations whom the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) was originally intended to reach.

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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. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

A few folks know that I was one of the three finalists to be the next Director of the Iowa Department of Education. I shared some big ideas about where I thought Iowa education could / should go. I blogged in March that it was really tough to feel positive about education politics in Iowa this year and I was proven right.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The policy is part of a school-climate effort by Mayor Bill de Blasio that also includes hiring 285 new school social workers, limiting out-of-school suspensions and providing support for educators to practice positive discipline techniques. It is a meaningful values statement from the largest school district in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Camilla Forte contributed reporting to this story.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

One of the big justifications for gifted-and-talented education is that high achieving kids need more advanced material so that they’re not bored and actually learn something during the school day. Their academic needs cannot be met in a general education class, advocates say. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

“One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. The College Board, which administers the AP classes, had planned to remove the course, arguing that obeying the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law would weaken it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 percent, were black, according to federal Department of Education data. Felecia Commodore. percent and 17.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

It is a phrase du jour in the education world and the impetus for conversations about 21st-century career and technical education programs. Research suggests that simply taking a course or two in career and technical education for a few hours a week won’t do much for either job preparedness or academic achievement. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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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. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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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. For years, education reformers, particularly in the charter school world, have focused on recruiting the best teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Online support groups like #educolor and #hiphoped can provide advice from teachers and educators across the country. 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. Read more about education in New Orleans.

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