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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Lines between school and the home became blurred, and in that haze, new forms of innovation emerged at local, national, and individual levels across the education landscape. A Broader View of Education Innovation. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

By many measures, schools here made big gains under Gordon and the ambitious 11-year effort to overhaul the education system that he helped create. The effects of poverty on education make further gains a daunting challenge. The Cleveland Plan began in the 2011-12 school year, a make-or-break time for the district.

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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. Instead, said Duchesneau, educators and staff need to recognize cultural and contextual differences and how they impact students. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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

The Hechinger Report

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The vast majority of special education students can grasp rigorous academic content. Photo: Karen Salomon for The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Imported from Alaska. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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