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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. Department of Education in 2011.

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Connecting SEL with Academic Achievement to Achieve True Education Equity

edWeb.net

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. The district is using multiple measures from the classroom to district level across internal and external categories to determine if students are college and career ready.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

In the run-up to a new school year, I was proud to contribute $100 to the parent teacher association at my son’s school for classroom supplies. AP Photo/Ted S. It seemed an uncontroversial ask — of course I wanted his class to have the supplies they needed for the year. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

A 2011 federal study that followed students for several years after high school graduation found that special education students are less likely to go to and complete college and, if they joined the workforce, earned nearly $4 an hour less than former general education students. In the end … a lot of the onus will come back on the school.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In a math classroom inside Monmouth Academy in the RSU 2 district, 20 students, ranging from freshmen to seniors, sat in clusters of four, working independently on small dry erase boards.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2011, several key groups and people in Maine worked to put the state ahead of the pack in terms of legal requirements for proficiency. Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. Amanda Karhuse has served as the director of advocacy for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) since 2006. First, districts need to address the digital divide/homework gap in meaningful ways.

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