EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The first thing educators can do to positively affect education policy may not be the most practical from a nuts-and-bolts perspective. For legislative and policy movement specific to literacy, the National Summer Literacy Association and International Literacy Association are also fantastic resources. Tapping Your Interest Groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

A study found that the policy boosted diversity on campuses by 1 percentage point, on average. Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. In 1970, Bowdoin College was the first college in the country to go test optional.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2021

When the pandemic began to shutter schools and child care centers in early 2020, parents working at the Patterson Law Group in Fort Worth, Texas, were allowed to work from home from the get go. The effect of the pandemic on some of this work has been to push the workplace policies five to ten years down the line,” Pena said.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The research and policy organization, which evaluates social-emotional learning programs and products for evidence, has released new criteria for making those evaluations. The post New Criteria for Judging SEL Providers Unveiled by Influential Group appeared first on Market Brief.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

The situation has become so worrying that some colleges have started to treat men as a group that needs additional support, seeking ways to both attract male students and keep them enrolled from one year to the next. The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

At a school in East Oakland where Seneca conducted a screening of 200 fourth graders for a new trauma support group, Detterman expected to register a handful of participants. She was shocked to find that about 60 percent of those students met the criteria for having experienced trauma and needing more intensive support.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2019

But this week, library groups urged their members to stop using the service if the company—now owned by LinkedIn, a subsidiary of Microsoft—makes planned changes to Lynda.com that will require library patrons to create a LinkedIn profile to access the service.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

million to also offer live, small-group online classes (though focused strictly on academic subjects). The emergence of “ learning pods ,” or small-group learning communities usually formed by families, has raised concerns over whether these private programs may worsen educational inequities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2024

High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. These policies aim to eliminate all forms of discrimination and promote equal opportunities for all students. How is it possible to accomplish that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Holmes had been “tracked,” or grouped, into the lower-performing math class. “I Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. I was just a kid.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2023

00:00:30:09 – 00:00:34:14 Vicki Davis The papers where you had the four different groups of people. So we split up the class into four groups. One group was assigned to just write the paper or a one-page paper using Google, using Grammarly, and using whatever resources they normally would use.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 4, 2021

Read the Policy Update from our July edFocus issue , written by Jon Bernstein, President of Bernstein Strategy Group. A group of 21 bipartisan Senators have agreed on a framework but continue to negotiate the final details of a $1 trillion infrastructure package. Jon received his B.A. from Colgate University and his J.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Made more apparent in recent years with the widespread expansion of school-choice policies nationwide, the latest college admissions scandal may be the final nail in the coffin of the myth of meritocracy in U.S. The fallacy of education as a level playing field is something that large swaths of the public have known for a long time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 30, 2022

The resiliency of these educators is to be commended as they navigated the daily challenges of policy changes, students coming and leaving, the caring for themselves and their children. In listening to them, a common theme resonated from the group, the value of networking. Despite the spotlight on the news, change is happening.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

Conduct targeted data collection: Targeted data collection, at a local or statewide level, provides context about whom programs are serving and insight into equity of access for underserved groups.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The post 40 Facebook Groups for Educators appeared first on Shake Up Learning. But I have found a gold mine in Facebook groups for educators. In fact, I have 40 Facebook Groups for Educators to share with you in this post! I’ve learned so much from the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group ! See: Copyright Policy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2024

We are proud to partner with Michigan Virtual, as well as this collaborative group of professionals, to embrace and empower AI for education across our state.” Statewide, this is the first group to come together and establish an AI workgroup or focus on AI learning in schools, led by Michigan Virtual’s recently established AI Lab.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2023

This most important stakeholder group is often left out of the conversation. This means making changes to our policies, procedures, and practices. I can look back on this early time in my administrative career and see how naïve I was. So what are the secrets to transforming school culture? Below are some ideas. Implement their ideas.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” By the time we get a handle on the one-, three-, five-year plan, it's changing right underneath our noses.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The kids that aren’t in algebra by eighth grade, they can do that still,” said Julia Kaufman, a senior policy researcher at RAND, and the lead author of the report, “but they would have to do something special to get there,” such as doubling up on math or taking a summer class. Are a lot of students of color, for example, in the lower track?

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 2, 2019

Student art featured at the NYC DOE Inclusion Expo Victor Calise , Commissioner at the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and Haben Girma , the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law, shared several lessons about the world's largest minority group with attendees at the NYC Department of Education's Accessibility Expo.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The post K-12 Groups Raise Concerns About Prospect of Big Changes to E-Rate Bidding Process appeared first on Market Brief. Department of Justice has come out in support of the FCC creating a centralized document repository for E-rate procurements, a step the the law enforcement agency says could help root out fraud.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2021

She recommends starting with the extent of equity and inclusion in the current environment, and then identifying which policies and practices can ensure an equitable and inclusive environment throughout the district, including the administrative, finance, and human resources departments. Aligning Policies.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2020

MIND Research Institute is a proud partner of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS) – two of the most prominent and important venues for edtech policy discussion. Hundreds of state commissioners and edtech policy leaders joined the ECS Live! Funding Equity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an incident at football,” Principal Bridget Belcastro said to the group. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A national group that seeks to curb student absenteeism is sounding an alarm after finding that the number of chronically absent students continued to surge even as pandemic closings abated. She also recommends advisory groups for middle and high school students to build connections with faculty. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

95 Percent Group believes that evidence-based reading instruction is essential in schools. 95 Percent Group’s offerings, including its literacy products and professional development, help educators support all readers through an effective, structured literacy approach based in the science of reading. About 95 Percent Group.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2024

Proponents argue that threat assessments decrease suspensions in a school and also reduce reliance on “zero-tolerance” policies for threats. These harsh policies that suspend or expel students for infractions regardless of the context are known to disproportionately punish Black and Hispanic students.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

In the past few weeks, education groups, schools and colleges have teamed up to offer resources for educators and draft policy papers in response to the sudden rise of so-called generative AI tools, chatbots that can compose answers to questions that sound like they are written by a human.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They could be playful and joyous; embodied; vulnerable; freely celebrate big and small successes together; work through in-group and intergroup tensions; and readily turn to each other for support and guidance when facing racism, gun violence, mental health crises and other challenging incidents in their schools and communities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Indeed, skeptics of online education cite studies suggesting that it “has failed to reduce costs and improve outcomes for students” and that “the gaps in student success across socioeconomic groups are larger in online than in classroom courses,” according to a 2019 paper written by researchers Spiros Protopsaltis and Sandy Baum , which argued against (..)

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Waterford

JANUARY 10, 2024

Build opportunities for open, two-way communication Transparent communication builds trust by keeping teachers informed about decisions, policies, and changes affecting them and their students. For example, group planning sessions can give you and your teachers the chance to share strategies and work through challenges together.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

As such, here are three examples of use cases I’ve heard from fellow students—and how higher education can do a better job of incorporating the student perspective into these policies. UCLA’s new policy describes using AI chatbots as “receiving assistance from another person.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

So all students, and particularly students from racial-ethnic minority groups and low-socioeconomic groups and religious-minority groups reported that the environment was more inclusive and accepting of them, and that actually caused an increase in grades, reducing inequalities and achievement in those classes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires. Support Network Engagement: Authentically involving youth in education policy creates opportunities for students of color to establish a supportive structure of peers and young leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

A study published online in April 2024 in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis illustrates the inconsistencies of teacher shortages in Tennessee, where one district had a surplus of high school social studies teachers, while a neighboring district had severe shortages. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). Penner’s past policy work has examined the factors within education that harm students of certain races.

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