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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

Edsurge

Chrishana Lloyd, a research scholar at Child Trends, will be heading up the ECE Workforce Center’s research efforts. Lloyd says the equity lens refers to recognizing the fact that the early childhood workforce is overwhelmingly made up of women and disproportionately women of color and immigrants.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

Sent from one office to another, he was close to giving up — until he found himself referred to someone whose title was “retention specialist.”. “I Students who are referred from one office to another get a staff person’s name and email address. I never heard of that,” said Dickinson. Literally her job is to keep you in school.”.

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Isn’t desegregation a measure of educational quality?

The Hechinger Report

New Orleans, which at 25 percent has the highest percentage of students attending private schools , mimics national trends. Referring to the white- and middle-class flight to Catholic schools in the aftermath of Brown v. Hoffman’s ED, Walker, is a New Orleans native who attended a mix of public and private schools growing up.

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

Mick Jones, Kylie’s dad, has been pleased to see an upward trend in his daughter’s scores, and he is among those who have become evangelists for the mastery-based system. Jones particularly likes the new Windsor Locks report cards that give him a deeper look at where his daughter needs extra help. Instead of just saying, ‘Mr.

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

NeverEndingSearch

This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. Check out Orientation Inspiration (2013) and Orientation Attitude (2016). Engagement. Gamification. We’ve come a long way from my old very offline Hollywood Squares approach.

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For rural colleges, good vocational teachers are hard to find

The Hechinger Report

Oil references are everywhere at Williston State College, at the heart of North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield. Vocational education advocates have long bemoaned the lack of communication between colleges and industry, but some say they’re encouraged by recent trends. Photo: Matt Krupnick for The Hechinger Report.

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What Do We Mean When We Say ‘Social And Emotional Skills’?

MindShift

According to the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, , a research and advocacy group, these include the “4Cs of critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity,” as well as “life and career skills” and “information, media and technology skills.” 21st Century Skills. Resilience.