Tag: students
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Getting Ready for a Crash
Denise Forte, president and CEO of EdTrust, wrote an interesting article, published today in The 74 online. Forte writes, “Education equity advocates are sounding the alarm at a crucial time for America’s public school system – but is anyone listening? There’s a fiscal cliff ahead as the Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) funds that…
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Friday News Roundup
Learning Loss Win-Win: High-Impact Tutoring in DC Boosts Attendance, Study Finds (The 74) According to The 74 online, “High-quality tutoring programs not only get students up to speed in reading and math, they can also reduce absenteeism, a new study shows.” … “…[H]igh impact tutoring – defined as at least 90 minutes a week with…
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Selling Cheesecake
We’ve talked about “this” before. The “this” is how traditional school districts spend taxpayer dollars without most of that money being spent directly to make young learners smarter and stronger. Sure, most of that money is spent on hiring teachers, administrators, and other staff to teach and take care of the student body. But when…
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The Most Inequitable School Practice – Grading
Grading. Ugh! If there was one noteworthy failure in my career as a school leader, it would be my inability to train my teachers to grade fairly and consistently across grade levels and content areas. I was never successful in getting 9th grade English teachers or 11th grade chemistry teachers to align their grading practices…
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Incubating Innovation
Microschools, a collection of small numbers of young learners, are growing across America. What some parents learned about their public school during the pandemic (that some of those schools weren’t good places for their kids) launched a learning pod (even smaller versions of microschools) and microschool explosion that hasn’t slowed since 2020. Traditional public schools…
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The Messiness of Learning
When we opened our personalized learning lab school in Houston around 10 years ago, visitors complimented us on our creative and innovative practices. They were amazed at how much time we spent focused on learners, specifically how they grew in their reading, writing, and problem-solving abilities, how they were able to build relationships with their…
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Friday News Roundup
It’s Friday. Time for the News Roundup! Interactive: See How Student Achievement Gaps Are Growing in Your State (The 74) National NAEP 8th grade math scores have fallen 8 points since 2019. Those same math scores fell 12 points since 2013. These decreases have infected all students – including high-performing and low-performing groups. According to…
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10 Leap Day Predictions for 2028
On this Leap Day, 2024, I thought I might continue the prediction series started a few days ago when I shared the Center on Reinventing Public Education director Robin Lake’s prognostications for 2024. I’m not sure all of my predictions will come true in one year, so let’s just say we can revisit these “ten”…
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10 Predictions for 2024, Part 2
This week, Robin Lake, Executive Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, wrote an article for The 74 online titled, “10 Predictions About Learning Recovery, Innovation in Public Education in 2024.” According to the article, “Robin Lake looks into her crystal ball at a possible future of state takeovers, school staffing shifts, personalized AI,…
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10 Predictions for 2024
This week, Robin Lake, Executive Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, wrote an article for The 74 online titled, “10 Predictions About Learning Recovery, Innovation in Public Education in 2024.” According to the article, “Robin Lake looks into her crystal ball at a possible future of state takeovers, school staffing shifts, personalized AI,…
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