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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. . By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

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At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. In recent years, we’ve used podcasts and short videos, adding vibrancy to our messaging with examples from the classroom.

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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

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On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

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She sees the importance of climate education both at the basic level of survival — teaching local subsistence farmers to adopt drought-resistant crops, for example — and at the level of what you might call ethics. “To Furthermore, at COP 27, UNESCO, the U.N.’s To make good choices people need to be educated and aware.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. Otherwise, the 2030 diversity reports from Silicon Valley might look worse than they do today. percent in 2019 to just 1.8 percent in 2021.

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OPINION: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

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For example, there is enormous funding available for schools to upgrade their HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) systems, in part because improving ventilation can reduce Covid transmission. Related: Climate change: Are we ready? million it will save in energy costs each year.

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