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Connecting SEL with Academic Achievement to Achieve True Education Equity

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SEL should be integrated into the materials; Develop inclusive discipline and dress code policies. In this role, she works to fill current gaps in research, policy, and advocacy to ensure that schools holistically support the well-being and development of students, and especially for low-income students and students of color.

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

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The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The Cleveland Plan began in the 2011-12 school year, a make-or-break time for the district. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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

The Hechinger Report

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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

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Erika Stump , a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine, has written seven reports on proficiency-based education in the state. Asked how it’s going so far, Stump replied: “It depends on how you define ‘it’ and how you define ‘going.’”.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. Currently, Amanda serves as President of NCTET.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

Districts that use the federal dollars to equalize their spending violate federal policy. Ary Amerikaner, vice president for P-12 policy, practice and research at The Education Trust, which fights for more equitable spending in schools, has long sought to draw attention to the variation in per-student spending within school districts.

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