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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

ED Surge

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education.

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OPINION: School district leaders must make early education a priority, so children enter school prepared

The Hechinger Report

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. After all, children who receive high-quality early childhood care and education services are more likely to enter school prepared for academic and social success in kindergarten and beyond.

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OPINION: Direct education grants can give families and children choices for getting extra help

The Hechinger Report

The nation’s families recently received another clear message that our education system is not serving all students. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “nation’s report card,” last month revealed the extent of the learning decline during the pandemic. They are exhausted. Students are frustrated.

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The Power of Networks in Education Innovation

Digital Promise

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Reengaging the role of government.

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OPINION: In an era of teacher shortages, we must embrace and develop new ways to unleash educator talent

The Hechinger Report

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. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded.

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OPINION: Schools are still struggling post-pandemic, but surprising success stories give us hope

The Hechinger Report

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. No school governance model is predominant. Department of Education.

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