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WEBNew Initiative Aims to Strengthen Democracy in School Elections. Austin, Boyd & Tran: Cornerstone Project seeks to rebuild trust in institutions, decrease polarization and ensure all kids get a quality education. Ben Austin, Sandy Boyd & Doannie Tran. ‘Brown’ Banned School Segregation. In 1974, ‘Milliken’ Made It Harder to Stop.
How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
WEBSep 14, 2023 · A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...
Niemi: CASEL Is Updating the Most Widely Recognized Definition …
WEBDec 15, 2020 · In the 26 years since CASEL introduced the term “social and emotional learning,” the research and practice of SEL have grown tremendously. Today, educators talk about SEL in many ways and hear about a multitude of strategies for implementation in schools and classrooms. As the creators of the most …
‘Astonishing’ Absenteeism, Trauma Rates Root of Academic Crisis
WEBJun 23, 2024 · Alaska, Arizona, Washington D.C., and Oregon saw the highest chronic absenteeism rates, between 42 and 46%. Idaho, Louisiana, New Jersey and Washington saw the lowest, with between 4 and 18% of kids chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, the latest available data. Several New England states that invest heavily in …
74 Interview: Journalist Roland Martin Talks His New Digital
WEBSep 4, 2018 · See previous 74 interviews: Civil rights activist Dr. Howard Fuller talks equity in education, Harvard professor Karen Mapp talks family engagement, former U.S. Department of Education secretary John King talks the Trump administration, and more. The full archive is right here. A digital pioneer and former host and managing editor of TV One Cable Network, multimedia journalist Roland Martin ...
‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create the versions of The Oregon Trail that most kids have played since.
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40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and Meeting the ...
WEBDec 12, 2023 · Forty years ago, the release of A Nation at Risk (ANAR) led to what is known today as the modern school reform movement. With its calls for increased academic rigor, more productive use of instructional time, more effective teaching and more impactful leadership, ANAR set policy and practice changes in motion at every level of the education ...
How New York City’s School Screening Algorithms Cement ... - The …
WEBJun 2, 2021 · This story was originally published March 10 by THE CITY, produced in collaboration with The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom investigating technology’s effects on society. E ach school day, the students of the John Jay Educational Campus line up outside their squat, brick-lined Brooklyn building and make their way through a metal detector on the way to class at one of the four floors inside.
Interactive Map: Inside U.S. School Segregation by Race & Class
WEBMar 12, 2024 · Along the 100 most racially segregated school district borders, however, the average difference was 78 percentage points. In other words, in one school district, students of color comprised 2% of the total enrollment while, in a district directly next door, they accounted for 80% of the student body. Economic segregation was …