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Online Education Advocacy Group Launches as Dept. of Ed Proposes Loosening Regulations

Edsurge

The collaborative effort stems in part from each organization’s participation in 2019 in rulemaking negotiations with the U.S. Department of Education about distance learning regulations. There are think tanks and individuals that cannot let go of that association and have looked to online learning in general with a very jaundiced eye.”

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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

eSchool News

The new survey data doesn’t look at whether tracking helps or hurts students’ math outcomes. That could shortchange kids who don’t have a parent who can step in and do that kind of advocacy, Kaufman noted.

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

As an organization on a mission to build a strong, socially conscious and diverse tech workforce, the past year showed us where we can strengthen our existing practices and sharpen our focus and advocacy efforts to be even further out on the leading edge of innovative learning. We created a more streamlined curriculum.

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

Edsurge

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. There is a general consensus among educators that it often leads to negative outcomes for older students, but studies on retention in earlier grades, such as third grade, are more complicated.

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It’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that you don’t spend it wisely

Dangerously Irrelevant

We have extracurricular STEM programs that will make up the difference. The solution to improving school outcomes is not to ‘throw money’ at schools. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? You think we want an active, engaged citizenry? It’s to grade and rank them!

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Why Young Children Should Learn Engineering

edWeb.net

Even with the NGSS’s emphasis on engineering, there’s still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn’t place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. Agency: Students of all ages are more invested in the lesson when their actions directly impact the outcome. Heather has 20 years of experience in education.