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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 ...
‘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 …
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‘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.
40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and Meeting the ...
WEBDec 12, 2023 · Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. 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 ...
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 …
40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ Assessing the Impact of Whole …
WEBJan 9, 2024 · While some models have proven effective at shifting child outcomes in certain settings, none have yet been proven — at large scale, using high-quality causal research methods — to be a silver bullet that can overcome the challenges many children face today in terms of improving academic outcomes.
Can Right Answers Be Wrong? Latest Clash Over ‘White ... - The 74
WEBJun 21, 2021 · Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter.. T o learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As they worked, she asked them to imagine designing affordable housing for Black and Hispanic families like theirs in Cincinnati who have ...