article thumbnail

As We Rebuild, Here’s the Part We Can’t Afford to Take Out

Edsurge

In 2005, the aftermath of a once-in-a-century hurricane provided an opportunity to think anew about how to design an education system and rebuild a city. If you’re a social entrepreneur who has built a product or program to solve an issue, you will have to engage in the policy, advocacy and work of “getting in the way” to help it flourish.

Advocacy 150
article thumbnail

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

Report 80
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Could a ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment) be right for your classroom?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. Where, when, and how they chose to do the work was up to them.

article thumbnail

From Static to Interactive and From Open to Free: Consequences Both Intended and Unintended

Iterating Toward Openness

Scheines, Leinhardt, Smith, Cho, (2005). Traditionally, one of the cornerstones of OER advocacy has been that faculty should never adopt OER in order to save students money if they thought that doing so would harm student learning. For more research along these lines from CMU, read just about anything by Ken Koedinger.

article thumbnail

Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

NACA was born out of an urgent need to reimagine education for Indigenous youth: In 2005, three quarters of Native American students graduated on time in the Albuquerque school district, compared to 87 percent of all students, according to state data. Related: 3 Native American women head to college in the pandemic.

Education 110
article thumbnail

Children’s Hospital Colorado Expands Access to Free, Online Teacher Training to Help Students with ASD and ADHD Improve Executive Functioning Skills

eSchool News

to a $2 million contract awarded to Children’s Hospital Colorado’s (Children’s Colorado) Pediatric Mental Health Institute by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ( PCORI ) in 2020. The Institute for Innovation & Implementation (the Institute) was founded in 2005 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

article thumbnail

Elizabeth Warren shows she understands education in ways charter advocates did not

The Hechinger Report

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Related: For better student outcomes, hire more black teachers.