40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
Mar 19, 2024 · A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
14 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools …
Dec 12, 2023 · In October, the Accelerator circulated a paper showing impressive results from OnYourMark, a fully virtual program provided to developing readers.The study found that among 1,000 students enrolled in Texas charter schools, participating in OnYourMark resulted in kindergartners gaining the equivalent of 26 extra days of learning in letter sounds and first graders receiving 55 additional days of ...
No More Cures, No More Fixes: How Autistic Leaders Are ... - The 74
Mar 6, 2024 · ‘If I Knew Then What I Know Now — A Parent’s Autism Story’ (Multicultural Autism Action Network) During a 2020 address at Drexel University, Julia Bascom, until recently the network’s executive director, offered an example of how changing the prism through which disability is viewed clashes with the most prevalent therapies and services: “In the medical model, autism means that my ...
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10 Charts That Explain How Schools Have Grown Less Violent
Aug 22, 2024 · School safety expert Deborah Temkin Cahill, the chief research officer at the nonprofit Child Trends, said the data are part of a larger, promising trajectory.In the last decade, school violence has declined precipitously, she said, as schools “double down on their efforts to improve school climate and to implement social-emotional learning.”
Artificial Intelligence and Schools: When Tech Makers and …
Sep 26, 2024 · While many AI tools help create engaging projects and lessons, Wallace wanted a tool to better support personalized learning. While working alongside Inkwire, she said XQ connected her with other AI makers, such as Playlab, to build an AI Chatbot that would support an interdisciplinary, community-centered project for her students. “We frontloaded the bot with all the information I need to ...
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How School Choice ... - The 74
Jan 23, 2024 · This broadly economic rationale connects with two other motivations for the introduction and expansion of school choice policies. The first can be described as a pragmatic appeal that has historically proven important: given the entrenched power of the public education bureaucracy in the United States (e.g., the political influence of public teachers’ unions), reform from without—as ...
ALICE, America’s Most Controversial Active-Shooter Training that ...
Dec 7, 2021 · As gunshots rang out inside Michigan’s Oxford High School last week, terrified students scrambled for shelter, barricading classroom doors with desks and chairs should the gunman try to burst inside. Some wielded scissors and calculators as makeshift weapons in case they had to fight back. One student, 16-year-old star running back Tate Myre, was reportedly […]
Can Right Answers Be Wrong? Latest Clash Over ‘White ... - The 74
Jun 21, 2021 · Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. To 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 …
New Data: School Shootings Surge to a Record High - The 74
Sep 13, 2023 · While the federal data on school gun violence incidents “is of course extremely striking,” it is just “one piece in the puzzle of our understanding of school shootings,” Véronique Irwin, an associate education research analyst with the National Center for Education Statistics, said on a press call Tuesday.