The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers. That can reduce teacher turnover at schools in Black communities, where many classrooms are staffed by young, inexperienced teachers who are constantly coming and going, which leads to low student achievement.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2018

School districts nationwide are facing a critical teacher shortage and the situation is only expected to worsen in the next few years. While technology can address a variety of education challenges, the misuse of it can be disruptive to learning. teachers leave the profession every year, most before reaching the age of retirement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Since its inception twenty years ago, K12 has been committed to removing barriers that impact academic equity and to providing high-quality education for anyone—particularly those in underserved communities —as a means to foster economic empowerment and address societal inequities through college and career readiness. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Stella Ruebel is a high school sophomore who has staffed the lines at Teen Link for more than a year because the program resonated with her values. “I Teen Link is staffed with teen volunteers to provide a safe place for youth in need of mental health support by phone, text or online chat messaging. Credit: Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Imagine – just for a moment – going through your entire K-12 experience without seeing a teacher that shares one of your most significant identities. According to the National Center for Education Statistics 2017-18 report, 79% of teachers are white , even as the majority of students attending public schools are children of color.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

What I often discover is that these students often attribute their assuredness to a teacher who believes in them and with whom they can identify on various levels of representation. The data is crystal clear: Students of color who have even one teacher of color by third grade are nearly 40 percent more likely to graduate from high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Obtaining a full teacher license in Montana isn’t easy. In some places, the multiple hurdles to licensure slow the process so much that they have exacerbated the state’s teacher shortage. In total, 137 Montana schools — 65 percent of which were classified as rural — employed unlicensed teachers during the 2020-21 school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

EdSurge: Coding bootcamps are often pitched as a solution to a so-called skills gap. Yeah, I think coding bootcamps want to address as many people as possible outside of tech who want to break in. To your point, there is no teachers. MissionU was acquired by WeWork. Flatiron School was acquired by WeWork.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. As the teacher librarian at RCCBA, Michelle also teaches elective courses in technology and information literacy skills to her students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — March 16, 2022 — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, launched today several new summer learning solutions to support school districts in addressing unfinished learning in math and literacy. Ready-to-Use Summer Solutions.

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MindShift

AUGUST 19, 2018

Some have called summer the “most unequal time of the year,” and Johns Hopkins researchers found that summer learning loss in elementary school accounts for two-thirds of the achievement gap between low-income children and their middle-income peers by ninth grade. Abby Rovner/Horizons at SFFS).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Rod Ruth , nominated by Edmentum Aaron Schwartz , nominated by IPVideo Nominee: Cumberland County Public Schools Nominated by: EPS School Specialty For Cumberland County Public Schools, the strategic use of Structured Literacy made all the difference for both students and teachers in addressing disrupted learning due to the pandemic.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2019

Two concerns that I hear at nearly every campus across the country are teacher shortages and teacher retention, and the folks at the Economic Policy Institute echo these concerns. According to their recent report, our nation’s teacher shortage is “real, large and growing, and worse than we thought.” So we asked them!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

This story is the fifth in a series about public preschools that will also examine the condition of preschool teachers and the political future of preschool. The fourth story, about what preschool teachers need to do better, can be found here. They had made play-dough the previous week too, with their teacher’s instruction.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

Goodlettsville, Tennessee – March 31, 2022 – The Dollar General Literacy Foundation (DGLF) announced a commitment of approximately $5 million in grants to five national organizations working to address the critical literacy needs identified in its new State of American Literacy Report released today.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In the months to come, we’ll be looking at various ways schools attempt to address the declines in reading and math and help students catch up. All of the results are available here.). We want to hear your story ideas and welcome opinion pieces about efforts to get them back on track.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These one-time gifts from billionaires and multinational corporations are welcomed by most schools, but they are not enough to close gaps in access to learning technologies nor ultimately a sustainable financing solution for technology infrastructure. Or their latest crop of teachers needs training?

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

If there was one sliver of solace during that difficult last year, though, it’s that every other teacher she knew was having an equally tough time. “I I can’t tell you how many teachers use CBD oil,” she says with a laugh. I can’t tell you how many teachers use CBD oil. It affected my psyche a lot.” It was the anxiety.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2017

Its rigorous standards, high-quality curriculum and ongoing professional development for teachers serve to support this goal. Teachers regularly analyze student data to drive daily instruction and long-term planning, and an emphasis is placed on building strong relationships with students, parents and guardians.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. Parents will step up to address the student mental health crisis.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Child care centers, which already operated on thin margins before the pandemic, are shuttering classrooms and capping enrollment numbers because of severe teacher shortages and a lack of funding. “We Some centers have reported wait lists as large as 1,500 children due to staffing shortages that are keeping classrooms closed.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While not new, generative AI (artificial intelligence) has rapidly ascended to the top of the K-12 education scene this year, creating fervor amongst a community with much to resolve already—declining benchmarks, limited budgets, staffing shortages, enrollment declines, and student wellness concerns to name a few.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 27, 2020

The student’s 6th-grade teacher was angry, charging that the school, in the end, wasn’t doing much for the students. He added that career development requires a system that encourages teachers and children to speak the same language around who a child is and what he or she wants to become. This work, she urged, is not one dimensional.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. Four years later, Black male teachers still made up less than 3 percent of teachers in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She felt a gnawing sense of urgency to do more to address the physical and mental health issues she saw her students and their families struggling with daily. Her work looks a little different from school to school because she has made a point to listen to and elevate students’ ideas and solutions. The conversation stuck with her.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” Schools that evolved from teacher-training oriented “normal schools” are systematically to be denied designation as a university – schools that Carey is clear to note were designed “to train women to become public schoolteachers.” Bloomberg ’s recent reporting on bootcamps seems to confirm this.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” But Amazon has since launched a new marketplace, Amazon Ignite , where teachers can sell not share their class materials.

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