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Check out my latest post: Forging Youth-Centered Futures: Bringing Youth Visions to Life https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/forging-youth-centered-futures-bringing-youth-visions-to-life/
Forging Youth-Centered Futures: Bringing Youth Visions to Life - Core Education, LLC How might kids remake learning for a post-pandemic future? What advice might they have for adults? What approaches and strategies might they want us to use as we build futures focused on them? We won’t know if we don’t include youth and their perspectives in our conversations and strategic plann...
Check out my latest post: State of the States: State Reporting of Teacher Supply and Demand Data https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/state-of-the-states-state-reporting-of-teacher-supply-and-demand-data/
State of the States: State Reporting of Teacher Supply and Demand Data - Core Education, LLC For any labor market to function properly, clear information is needed to guide decision making; its absence invariably leads to less than optimal decisions and inefficiencies. While the broader labor market is riddled with imperfect information, the teacher labor market is particularly vulnerable.....
Check out my latest post: PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/proof-points-researchers-blast-data-analysis-for-teachers-to-help-students/
PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students - Core Education, LLC Writing for the Hechinger Report, Jill Barshay surveyed the difficulties in providing data to teachers and expecting instructional improvement. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data. In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education P...
Check out my latest post: The Future of Testing in Education https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/the-future-of-testing-in-education/
The Future of Testing in Education - Core Education, LLC In a new series, the Center for American Progress examines how assessments in public schools can become effective instruments that help to measure whether schools and educators are meeting the goals of education. It considers how assessments are designed and how their results are used and understood...
Check out my latest post: Smart State Strategies for Building Intensive Tutoring Systems https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/smart-state-strategies-for-building-intensive-tutoring-systems/
Smart State Strategies for Building Intensive Tutoring Systems - Core Education, LLC In May 2021, Education Trust, Education Reform Now, and FutureEd published State Guidance for High-Impact Tutoring to help states implement successful tutoring programs. Now, a new follow-up publication outlines the features of effective and equitable state tutoring initiatives and provides examples...
Check out my latest post: Crisis Breeds Innovation: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/crisis-breeds-innovation-pandemic-pods-and-the-future-of-education/
Crisis Breeds Innovation: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education - Core Education, LLC In partnership with their funders, the Center on Reinventing Public Education launched a national initiative that brought together researchers from around the country to track and analyze the pandemic pod movement. The goal was simple: to learn from the families, educators, and community-based organ...
Check out my latest post: PROOF POINTS: Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/proof-points-combining-remote-and-in-person-learning-led-to-chaos-study-finds/
PROOF POINTS: Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds - Core Education, LLC Writing for the Hechinger Report, Jill Barshay reviews new research that finds what teachers were saying throughout the pandemic – it is madness to teach students in the classroom and those joining by computer simultaneously. Excerpts from the piece appear below: Although educators are trying to k...
Check out my latest post: Putting compassion on the teacher prep syllabus https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/putting-compassion-on-the-teacher-prep-syllabus/
Putting compassion on the teacher prep syllabus - Core Education, LLC The Hechinger Report recently reported on a new, masters-level course called ‘Compassion and Dignity for Educators’ being offered at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Excerpts from the piece appear below: The ability to understand a child’s struggles — and then do or say just the right th...
Check out my latest post: Robo-Writers, Translators, Chatbots: Developments in NLP and What it Means for Education https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/robo-writers-translators-chatbots-developments-in-nlp-and-what-it-means-for-education/
Robo-Writers, Translators, Chatbots: Developments in NLP and What it Means for Education - Core Education, LLC Recently, Getting Smart published an intriguing piece on the likely influence of natural language processors on education. Excerpts from the piece appear below: Natural language processing is a branch of computer science, specifically artificial intelligence, that enables computers to understand hum...
Check out my latest post: America’s Democracy Can’t Afford for Our Public School Experiment to Fail https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/americas-democracy-cant-afford-for-our-public-school-experiment-to-fail/
America’s Democracy Can’t Afford for Our Public School Experiment to Fail - Core Education, LLC Writing for the Bush Institute, Ann Wicks recently penned an opinion piece about the need for public education in a democracy. Excerpts from the piece appear below: A district superintendent, a school board member, a teacher, and a concerned parent walk into a bar, arguing about COVID-19 protocols,....
Check out my latest post: March Issue Brief: Family Engagement https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/march-issue-brief-family-engagement/
March Issue Brief: Family Engagement - Core Education, LLC Research consistently shows that family engagement in learning positively affects a range of student outcomes, including grades, behavior, enrollment in higher level programs, graduation, and college attendance. Families and teachers want children to succeed, and working together, they can provide t...
Check out my latest post: What Parents Are Thinking https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/what-parents-are-thinking/
What Parents Are Thinking - Core Education, LLC Learning Heroes’ sixth annual national survey dives deeply into the beliefs and perceptions of parents, teachers, and principals. Some of its findings: Parents want to be as involved or even more involved in their children’s education. Safety should be a top priority in school, followed by acade...
Check out my latest post: Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/combining-remote-and-in-person-learning-led-to-chaos-study-finds/
Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds - Core Education, LLC Writing for the Hechinger Report, Jill Barshay reviews new research that finds what teachers were saying throughout the pandemic – it is madness to teach students in the classroom and those joining by computer simultaneously. Excerpts from the piece appear below: Although educators are trying to k...
Check out my latest post: Listening to Student Voices https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/listening-to-student-voices/
Listening to Student Voices - Core Education, LLC A campaign by Transcend challenges communities to listen to students’ voices and use those insights to inform future innovations. In the words of one student, “As we consider what learning can look like for my generation and those to come, I hope more schools will take the time to walk a mile in...
Check out my latest post: 10 Years of Social and Emotional Learning in U.S. School Districts https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/10-years-of-social-and-emotional-learning-in-u-s-school-districts/
10 Years of Social and Emotional Learning in U.S. School Districts - Core Education, LLC In 2011, CASEL launched the Collaborating Districts Initiative (CDI) to study whether it was possible to implement SEL systemically in large, urban districts across the United States. Systemic SEL implementation is more pervasive and complex than the introduction of a single lesson or class period.....
Check out my latest post: Overwhelmed by Mounting Mental Health Issues and Public Distrust, a ‘Mass Exodus’ of Principals Could be Coming https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/overwhelmed-by-mounting-mental-health-issues-and-public-distrust-a-mass-exodus-of-principals-could-be-coming/
Overwhelmed by Mounting Mental Health Issues and Public Distrust, a ‘Mass Exodus’ of Principals Could be Coming - Core Education, LLC Recently in The 74, Marianna McMurdock wrote a piece on pandemic-related school principal attrition. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Across the country, many principals are preparing to leave the education field altogether. A survey of more than 500 this fall by the National Association of Secon...
Check out my latest post: Big Data on Campus https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/big-data-on-campus/
Big Data on Campus - Core Education, LLC Recently, EducationNext released research on the predictive analytics that colleges and universities are using to identify at-risk students who may benefit from additional support. Excerpts from the piece appear below: Colleges and universities are facing mounting pressure to raise completion rates....
Check out my latest post: Investing in the Teacher Workforce: Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Preferences https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/investing-in-the-teacher-workforce-experimental-evidence-on-teachers-preferences/
Investing in the Teacher Workforce: Experimental Evidence on Teachers’ Preferences - Core Education, LLC While investing in the teacher workforce is central to improving schools, school resources are notoriously limited, forcing school leaders to make difficult decisions on how to prioritize funds. A new paper from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University examines a critical input to resource alloca...
Check out my latest post: How Districts With Different Poverty Levels Are Spending COVID Relief Funds https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/how-districts-with-different-poverty-levels-are-spending-covid-relief-funds/
How Districts With Different Poverty Levels Are Spending COVID Relief Funds - Core Education, LLC Recently in The 74, Phyllis Jordan and Bella Dimarco reviewed a new FutureEd analysis of plans for spending ESSER III emergency relief funds, including more than 2,600 school districts serving 53 percent of the nation’s public school students. The analysis suggests that the higher the poverty rate...
Check out my latest post: Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/collaborating-to-transform-and-improve-education-systems-a-playbook-for-family-school-engagement/
Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement - Core Education, LLC Writing for Brookings, Rebecca Winthrop, Adam Barton, Mahsa Ershadi, and Lauren Ziegler introduce a new playbook on family-school collaboration that makes the case for why family engagement is essential for education systems transformation and why families and schools must have a shared understandin...
Check out my latest post: Fourth American School District Panel Survey Reveals Concerns about Mental Health, Political Polarization https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/fourth-american-school-district-panel-survey-reveals-concerns-about-mental-health-political-polarization/
Fourth American School District Panel Survey Reveals Concerns about Mental Health, Political Polarization - Core Education, LLC Policymakers had hoped that the 2021–2022 school year would be a chance to recover from COVID-19 pandemic–related disruptions to schooling. Instead, media reports of staff shortages, heated or even violent school board meetings, increased student misbehavior, low student and teacher attendance, ...
Check out my latest post: Policy Principles Supporting the 13th Year Concept https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/policy-principles-supporting-the-13th-year-concept/
Policy Principles Supporting the 13th Year Concept - Core Education, LLC State leaders are looking to increase postsecondary credential attainment to build the depth and breadth of their high-skilled labor force, and the concept of the 13th year has emerged as a model that can help do just that. The 13th year allows students to continue public schooling for an extra year...
Check out my latest post: Black, Latino Students Disproportionately Taught by Inexperienced, Uncertified Teachers https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/black-latino-students-disproportionately-taught-by-inexperienced-uncertified-teachers/
Black, Latino Students Disproportionately Taught by Inexperienced, Uncertified Teachers - Core Education, LLC Writing for The 74, Marianna McMurdock recently reviewed new research that shows that Black and Latino students are disproportionately taught by inexperienced, uncertified teachers. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Across the country, schools serving predominantly Black students have 5 percent mo...
Check out my latest post: 232 innovative schools challenging old assumptions about education https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/232-innovative-schools-challenging-old-assumptions-about-education/
232 innovative schools challenging old assumptions about education - Core Education, LLC Recently, Chelsea Waite of CRPE reviewed some of the most promising work emerging from the Canopy project, a nationwide effort lifting up knowledge from hundreds of organizations to build open data about schools that are innovating. Excerpts of the piece appear below: A diverse array of communitie...
Check out my latest post: Restoring Teachers’ Efficacy https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/restoring-teachers-efficacy/
Restoring Teachers’ Efficacy - Core Education, LLC A new piece from ASCD highlights a “pernicious dynamic” that is emerging from the pandemic: a loss of teachers’ professional efficacy. Highlights of the piece appear below: Amid the mix of emotions stirred in teachers by the sudden shift to online learning was a profound sense of helplessness ...
Check out my latest post: Classroom Observations Biased Against Male, Black Teachers, Research Suggests https://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/classroom-observations-biased-against-male-black-teachers-research-suggests/
Classroom Observations Biased Against Male, Black Teachers, Research Suggests - Core Education, LLC Recently in The 74, Kevin Mahnken reviewed a study out of Tennessee that shows that classroom observations, utilized for teacher effectiveness determinations, show evidence of racial and gender bias against male and Black teachers. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Significant bias has contributed...