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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

dollars) over five years to the country’s first federally-funded child care system. The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. Now, an offshoot of that recommendation has come to fruition.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

But with some smart strategies, early outreach, and a welcoming environment, you can do it! 3] Engaged families report trusting teachers more and understand more clearly the role school plays in their child’s life.[2] Use these strategies to facilitate parent-teacher relationships in a setting that works best for them.

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OPINION: Left out: Dreamers miss too may education opportunities that could change their lives

The Hechinger Report

In some instances, state tuition and financial aid policies explicitly exclude undocumented students; in others, length of residency requirements exclude recent immigrants, recent reporting by The Hechinger Report revealed. Too often, advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access.

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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment

The Hechinger Report

I spoke earlier this month with Alexa Frankenberg, executive director of California’s Child Care Providers United, and Brenda Parra, senior digital strategist for OLÉ about how to effectively organize child care workers and the importance of diverse strategies for doing so. When OLÉ first started its work, what was its strategy?

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Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity

The Hechinger Report

It makes personalized learning a strategy for equity. Last week iNacol, a leading advocacy organization, released a detailed report called Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-based Education To Ensure All Students Succeed , which has specific suggestions for policies and practices that can help accomplish this.

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How Did Portland Pull Off a Universal Pre-K Victory? We Started with the Fundamentals

Edsurge

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. As a new report about our victory shows, our success can be attributed to something even more basic and essential that so many people miss. Nearly a year ago now, in my corner of the country—Multnomah County, Ore.,

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

Edsurge

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format.