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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 ...
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‘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 …
‘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.
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.
74 Interview: Sal Khan on Personalized Learning, a Global ... - The 74
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · See previous 74 interviews, including 2017 Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee, former education secretary John King, and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.The full archive is right here.. E very founder has a startup story. Sal Khan’s, famously, starts in a closet. In fact, Khan may have one of the most celebrated closets in the world.
New Studies Suggest Choice of Curriculum and Textbooks Can
WEBMay 1, 2017 · The idea that schools can get better simply by improving the content of what they teach may seem at once novel and obvious in an education policy debate dominated by heated battles over school choice, integration, funding, and teacher tenure. But a significant body of research suggests that choosing better curriculum — …
Last Year, 200K Colorado Kids Used Open Enrollment to Pick Their ...
WEBAug 6, 2024 · More than 142,000 students, or 20% of all traditional public school students in Colorado, transferred to schools within their district last academic year, and about 57,000, or 8%, used cross-district open enrollment to switch to schools outside their zone. Of the cross-district transfer students, 81% attended brick-and-mortar schools and nearly ...