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Bucking the Trend

A Principal's Reflections

In a world where politics and education are colliding more than ever, there is a desperate sense of hopping onto the latest trend or buzzword from educational companies and authors that will fix all of our educational problems. This is not necessarily the case in all matters and in particular the matter of education. This is not the solution.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Youth drug use is trending down. He wrote about his findings for the organization Child Trends. Subscribe today!

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With the right instruction, tech opens doors for ELLs

eSchool News

As this trend was taking place nationally, more immigrant families were moving to Midwestern communities, including my home in Louisville, Kentucky. It was this growing population that led JCPS in 2007 to create the Newcomer Academy, a school designed for English language learners in sixth through 12th grades.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

Each year I share my predictions about these trends. Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. Here’s a look at my 2023 predictions.) While these predictions are rooted in reality, just as in the show Black Mirror , technology can have some unintended consequences.

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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

The Hechinger Report

The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students. New approaches to advising aim to reverse that trend ASAP can, and should, be expanded to benefit hundreds of thousands more students. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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4 ways to use ChatGPT in your STEM classroom

eSchool News

Key points: ChatGPT isn’t a tool to be feared–it can contribute greatly to STEM learning AI tools aren’t going away, and harnessing their capabilities is important “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey Back in 2007 when I was teaching Algebra I at the local middle school, the biggest (..)

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Public pre-K programs are facing another lost decade

The Hechinger Report

They point to the years following the Great Recession as evidence of the widespread cuts that may be ahead for public preschool: after the recession hit in late 2007, states made major cuts to funding for public pre-K programs that persisted for years. Out of 39 states, including Washington D.C., Subscribe today!

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