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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

Edsurge

We interviewed Outstanding Black Male Fellows from the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) to critically examine the career trajectories of Black male educators from three perspectives: recruitment, retention, and mobility. He would soon learn that this was a trend in many schools. And that number is highly unusual.

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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

The Hechinger Report

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ?

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. in February 2019. But part of employers’ inability to fill middle-skills jobs can be attributed to degree inflation. million — The number of job openings in the U.S.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. ” It’s an inevitable move, or so the story goes.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. In 2019, it ranked fourth of all counties in the U.S. While the trend slowed this year, she says, “I absolutely think that the numbers will go right back up when the pandemic passes. He laughs wryly.