Celebrating Student-Led Environmentalism at Broward County Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 18, 2024
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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?
ED Surge
MAY 20, 2024
Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.
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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
As our family has been navigating the complexity of supporting our neurodivergent daughter to thrive in our local public school, I’ve found myself drawing up this metaphorical story of three young trees, which has become symbolic for me. I find comfort in metaphors. They help me find clarity when faced with challenges.
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Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools
Digital Promise
APRIL 2, 2024
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The Lengths Teachers Will Go For Kids
A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
In my work with school leaders, one of my goals is to push them to unearth these exemplars while also supporting teachers to grow and improve. Recently I was facilitating some longitudinal coaching work with administrators from Paterson Public Schools in NJ.
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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline
The Hechinger Report
MAY 15, 2023
No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators.
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STUDENT VOICE: My state supports public school choice, and I’m grateful for the options
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade and why, as a high school junior, I’m still there, as is Hanna and her twin, Morgan. For reaching my personal academic and career goals, online public school has been the right fit.
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Celebrating Student Creators and Changemakers at Norwalk Public Schools and Richland School District Two
Digital Promise
APRIL 25, 2024
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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 4, 2024
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Public school enrollment there fell by 7.6
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OPINION: We need more women in top leadership positions in our nation’s public schools
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Public school teaching remains a female- dominated profession. Nearly 80 percent of classroom teachers in our public schools are women. That continues to be the case in too many of our public school districts. Yet when it comes to the top job — superintendent — just three in 10 are women.
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Where Do We Stand Today in the Struggle to Save Public Schools?
Diane Ravitch
MAY 13, 2024
Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci about the current state of public education. It was aired on their show “Busted Pencils,” which is dedicated to teachers, students, and public schools. We talked about charters, vouchers, testing, and how to get involved. Everyone can stand up for what they believe.
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OPINION: Students with disabilities should not lose their rights when they are placed in private settings by public school systems
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Picture a young girl named Emma, who finds herself transitioning from a public school to a private school due to her unique educational needs. Many parents agree with their public schools’ recommendations to move their children to private schools to better address their educational needs.
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Remote Learning Teaching Tips
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 26, 2020
More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. teachers in mid-March to collect and share best practices, ideas, and common approaches to remote learning.
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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 9, 2021
As I recently worked with leaders from Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey, during a coaching session, I asked them to take a few minutes, and each share something positive that came about as a result of the pandemic. Too often, we tend to dwell on overcoming hardships that we forget to celebrate both small and large wins.
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8 Key Focus Areas for Developing a Re-Entry Plan
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 17, 2020
Obviously, education is at the top of my mind since it is the profession both my wife and I are a part of, and my kids currently attend public schools in Texas.
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The Philosophy Behind Maker Success
A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 28, 2015
During my tenure as New Milford High School Principal our district cut wood and metal shop. Over the years I have also seen recess time dwindle for my own kids and others who attend the New York City Public School System. The solution for all schools comes in the form of makerspaces.
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Modeling Hybrid Learning to Support Educators
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 17, 2021
To this end, I hit the ground running to begin the new year by traveling to Oklahoma to work with Sapulpa Public Schools. Like virtually every district and school, educators were experiencing some challenges with hybrid learning. During my first session of the day, I worked with administrators to best support their teachers.
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking
TeachThought
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.
Announcing the 2022-2023 Cohort of the League of Innovative Schools
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Greenfield Union School District (California). Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Highline Public Schools (Washington). Hudson City School District (New York). Kansas City Public Schools (Missouri). Linden Public School District (New Jersey). Community Schools (California).
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PARENT VOICE: They call it ‘school choice,’ but you may not end up with much of a choice at all
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The district has indicated that it will likely vote to close four public schools due to insufficient funds. If this happens, other districts will probably follow: The state’s recent universal voucher expansion has predictably accelerated the diversion of money from public to private schools.
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An Innovative Journey to Scalable Computer Science Programs
ED Surge
MAY 8, 2024
EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.
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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.
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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2024
Even the scores of students at Catholic schools, who otherwise weathered the pandemic well, plummeted in eighth grade math. Before the pandemic, arguably, 34 percent of the eighth grade population was on track to pursue advanced math in high school and a future STEM career if they wanted one.
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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Yet, those public schools still have been unable to meet the demand for teachers, with teaching jobs in high-poverty public schools having proven particularly hard to fill, according to the institute. Plus, with the added complexities of the classroom post-pandemic, the amount of stress teachers felt has also surged.
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Black Families Turn to Microschools and Homeschool for ‘Safety’ in Education
ED Surge
JULY 1, 2024
The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school. But in reality, there’s a sweep of reasons parents are attracted to these types of schools. Recently, the network expanded to include high school options.
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Before We Talk About AI Policy, We Should Talk About Priorities and Vision
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Milton Rodriguez is blunt about the shortcomings of many AI-powered tools for use in the KIPP Chicago Public Schools, where he serves as senior vice president of innovation and development. Chicago Public Schools has policies for data privacy and data integrations, as well as a list of approved edtech tools, many of which use AI.
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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2023
million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. Public school teachers are overwhelmingly white but most students are not. Characteristics of Public School Teachers. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8
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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education
ED Surge
MAY 15, 2024
Building STEM Literacy at a Large Florida School District Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest school district in the United States, serving over 250,000 students across 326 schools and education centers in the Fort Lauderdale area. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.
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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them
The Hechinger Report
MAY 12, 2024
Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Fenwick notes that policy efforts today must acknowledge and deal with the relics of that “systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.”
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PROOF POINTS: Schools’ mission shifted during the pandemic with healthcare, shelter and adult ed
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in San Francisco opened its gymnasium to homeless students and their families as part of its Stay Over Program in 2022. It is one example of the many community services that a majority of public schools are now providing, according to a federal survey.
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STUDENT VOICE: School boards are a critical piece of democracy. That’s why students must be on them
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 24, 2024
Shiva Rajbhandari was elected to the Boise School District Board of Trustees in 2022 while still a senior in high school. He is an advocate for mental health services, a Green New Deal for public schools and better working conditions andsupport for staff. She’s also an advocate for the Green New Deal for public schools.
How one district has diversified its advanced math classes — without the controversy
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Years ago, when Woodfin attended Union Public Schools from kindergarten through eighth grade, she sat in fairly homogenous classrooms. Woodfin recalled her peers as predominantly white, a legacy of families moving to the suburbs as Tulsa schools desegregated during the 1950s. I don’t know why you’re doubting yourself.”
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Where the Need for Bilingual Teachers Has Changed Over 20 Years
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
That figure grew to nearly one-third of districts during the 2020-21 school year. We dug further into data from the National Center for Education Statistics to find out how the rate of English learners enrolled in public schools has changed over time. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. That figure had been more than 1.4
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Some schools cut paths to calculus in the name of equity. One group takes the opposite approach
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Justin Desai, the Calculus Project’s director of school and district support and a former Boston Public Schools math teacher and curriculum designer, said he sees risks in that approach. At the time of publication, there were no open investigations against Milton Public Schools.
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Building better early grade math teachers: Milwaukee goes back to an old playbook
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. In the early 2000s, she saw a grant from the National Science Foundation as a possible solution for Milwaukee’s public schools.
7 realities for Black students in America, 70 years after Brown
The Hechinger Report
MAY 13, 2024
Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2022, the percentage of white students attending a school that is 90 percent or more white fell from 44 percent to 14 percent. One legacy of Brown v.
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OPINION: We fear our students will be shut out of college due to FAFSA failures
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2024
The schools we head in the San Francisco Bay Area, Alpha Public Schools and Cristo Rey San José , collectively serve 198 high school seniors, the majority of whom will be first-generation college students – including a significant portion with undocumented parents.
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Changing education could change the climate
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2024
He doesn’t want you to consider it remotely awe-worthy that he campaigned on a platform to turn his Idaho district into a leader on climate change, or that he won, against an incumbent, in the highest-turnout school board election in Boise history. Shiva Rajbhandari says education is “the” climate solution. Schifter said.
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70 years later, schools — and moms — are still fighting segregation
The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2024
More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So
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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 1, 2024
Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Many multilingual students face ongoing challenges and discrimination in public school. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.
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Rolling Out Across Verizon Innovative Learning Schools with Cohort 10
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 18, 2023
million value per school, given to Central High, @KCPS_CentralMS , @KCPS_FLA and @KCPS_Paseo ! Yearofgrowth @OPAPrincipal pic.twitter.com/bnEN9lTanI — Orange Prep (@OrangePrep) September 13, 2023 And at nearby Roselle Public Schools, located just 14 miles south of Orange, a celebration was held at Leonard V. Moore Middle School.
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Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingers
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Credit: (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The number of kindergartners in public school plunged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerned about the virus or wanting to avoid online school, hundreds of thousands of families delayed the start of school for their young children. Public school enrollment across all grades fell 2.2
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What If Banning Smartphones in Schools Is Just the Beginning?
ED Surge
JUNE 25, 2024
The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S.
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How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?
ED Surge
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. Adam Swinyard, the superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, acknowledges that there are trade-offs to the new ban when it comes to the use of tech in instruction. “We
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