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Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Instead of caving in, educational institutions should double down on DEI efforts. That’s why schools need to broaden the reach of DEI content and protect the instructors and faculty who are responsible for teaching it.

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Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, “educational policy and decision-makers at the local, state, and federal level should use their power to align priorities, educational strategies, and technology adoption decisions to place the academic needs of students ahead of the excitement about emerging AI capabilities.”

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MARCH 14, 2024

Professor Alastair Owens, the GA’s Chair of Trustees, commented: ‘Steve Brace is a leading figure in the geography education community, and I am thrilled that he will be joining the GA.

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JULY 10, 2023

There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Other educational policies can challenge the structural forces directly contributing to racial biases in schools, such as reforming school discipline, equity-focused school finance reform and school integration. Chin is a doctoral candidate in education policy and program evaluation at Harvard University.

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It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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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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MARCH 5, 2020

Instead the programs are set up to prepare principals in a “general way” to work across grade levels, said Laura Bornfreund, director of early & elementary education policy at New America. “A Laura Bornfreund, director of early & elementary education policy at New America.

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JULY 16, 2021

Alejandra Acosta, a higher education policy analyst at New America and an author of the report, said: “We all knew that the internet was important before the pandemic but didn’t realize how important it was. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That’s what we all are holding our breath about right now,” said Karin Garver, an early childhood education policy specialist at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), who recently published a report that looked at how the pandemic could impact state-funded pre-K. Out of 39 states, including Washington D.C.,

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‘Research does not show that using interim assessments improves student learning,’ said Susan Brookhart, professor emerita at Duquesne University and associate editor of the journal Applied Measurement in Education.” . All of that time. All of that energy. All of that effort. Most of it for nothing.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015. Let’s use this current round of CRDC data to spur action to give our students better choices than the one my students faced.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Lawmakers, university presidents, deans and all those who decide on and carry out educational policies should understand that students like me are no longer settling for simply being allowed into higher education institutions. We now demand what we all deserve: structures and mechanisms that support our educational growth.

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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.

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“I feel like we’re all running this marathon,” says An-Me Chung, the director of teaching, learning and tech at New America and strategic advisor to the organization’s education policy program.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Sacramento County Office of Education served as an outside administrator, approving plans and overseeing them. How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Rules about how old the student is permitted to be or how many credit hours can be taken, for example, create unforeseen challenges, said Tiffany Jones, Education Trust’s senior director of higher education policy. Tiffany Jones, senior director of higher education policy, The Education Trust.

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APRIL 30, 2022

It’s encouraging institutions to make better programs,” said Eddy Conroy, senior adviser in education policy at the left-leaning think tank New America. “If If you come out of any program in higher education you should be able to make more than the average high school graduate.”.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.

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MAY 2, 2024

Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Conservative activists cast the anti-DEI movement as a sober pursuit, but opponents say it appears bent on chasing certain people from view or halting efforts to acknowledge and serve them.

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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.”. 1 Including pay for performance, knowledge- and skills-based pay, career ladder programs, and market-based pay.

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Abbie Lieberman, a senior policy analyst on the early and elementary education policy team at New America, a Washington, D.C.-based Her colleague Laura Bornfreund, director of New America's early and elementary education policy team, put it more bluntly. There has never been a U.S.

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This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces. To be clear, this lack of teachers testifying was not the fault of educators. Although the board ultimately voted against including LGBTQIA+ identities and health needs in the standards, I noticed a pattern amongst the testifiers: almost none were classroom teachers.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research studied what happened the following 2021-22 school year. The results, published online in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis on Feb. And red identified “off track” students who had not come to school 10 percent or more of the time.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B.

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Andrés Bernasconi, a professor at the Center for the Study of Educational Policy and Practice at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Free tuition was “an expression of a principle and the principle was that education is the right of the people,” he says. “It

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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.”.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Jill Norton, founder of Clark Street Consulting, supports nonprofits, foundations and government agencies to advance educational equity. She was previously director of education policy at Abt Associates and senior policy advisor for three Massachusetts secretaries of education.

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Her work is an extension of research started by Education Trust in 2020 with a National Black Student Loan Debt Study survey of 1,300 Black borrowers and the subsequent Jim Crow Debt report , which identified college debt as a racial and economic justice issue.

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JULY 11, 2022

“The teachers and the teaching practices that can increase test scores often are not the same as those that improve student-reported engagement,” said David Blazar, one of the study’s co-authors and an associate professor of education policy at the University of Maryland College Park.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The United States ranks ninth — behind Estonia, Canada and the United Kingdom, among others — on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s “automation readiness” index for education policies. Related: With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The tool that helped identify the gaps in the first place is called the Knowledge Map , developed at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy based on the value of content knowledge. In the United States, schools tend to focus on helping students develop concrete skills, like finding the main idea in a paragraph.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Florida’s state board of education then accused the College Board of “playing games with Florida students.” Dropping such instruction from the course would mean that AP Psychology wouldn’t be “AP,” the College Board said.

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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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The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer. Jing Liu, assistant professor in education policy at the University of Maryland College Park, says that he and his fellow researchers were surprised by their findings.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

HEA policies and programs continue to help more students attend and graduate from college, even those who are incarcerated. Julie Ajinkya is vice president of applied research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and co-author of “ In Consideration of Reinstating Pell for Incarcerated Students.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Recent NAEP scores showed startling declines that could amount to as many as 22 weeks of learning loss, according to Thomas Kane, faculty director of Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research.

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