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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear. Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. 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. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Follow-up research by the same group showed more mixed results.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

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And policymakers say some of the same approaches could succeed for other groups that go to college at lower levels than whites for surprisingly similar reasons — including, in the United States, Hispanics, blacks, and native Americans. “A Nationally, about 4 percent of Canadians are indigenous, up from 3 percent in 2001.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. The George W.