The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

More about this week's guests: Patrick Farenga brings more than 34 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife unschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways. Please join us at www.reinventing.school for the live shows as well as access to the recordings (also on YouTube ).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. Well-financed special interest groups have inundated the public with salesmen disguised as advocates, who won’t take no for an answer.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But let’s be honest, industry and political groups do still try mightily to shape the science curriculum in American schools, challenging the teaching of evolution , subsidizing science lessons that promote fracking , suggesting everyone should learn to code , and promoting climate change skepticism , for example.

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