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Teachers Can Positively Impact Education Policy, We Just Have to Use Our Teacher Voice
While elected officials failing to listen to teachers is not a new phenomenon, education is at a turning point. We have to get creative about how we get involved because there is power in the classroom teachers sharing their experiences from the classroom, writes educator Geoffrey Carlisle.
Want Students Who Think for Themselves? Let’s Eliminate Our Standardized School System
The way forward is to create systems and cultures to celebrate our learners' strengths while supporting their individual needs. Every child deserves to feel confident in middle school without conforming to a standardized system, writes music teacher Zachary Morita.
What Colleges and Job-Training Programs Can Learn From Teenagers’ Hopes and Fears
If leaders of colleges and companies, philanthropies and governments who are busy redesigning postsecondary pathways stopped and listened to teenagers, what would they learn? To find out, EdSurge interviewed nine high school students from across the U.S. about the lives they’re working toward and the choices they’re making to get there.
Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives
Economic and social disparities plays out as teenagers make decisions about what to do after high school. And it’s complicated by common wisdom that advises young people that the path to dreams almost always passes through college—even though only some students make it there, and even fewer graduate.
To Close the Educational Equity Gap, Teachers Have to Understand Their Position of Power
No matter where you are, teachers are in a position of power. For teachers who work in communities with large populations of historically marginalized groups, they have a disproportionate amount of power in the classroom, writes Ka’ua Adams.
When Best Practices Fail Black and Brown Students, We Must Challenge Our Moral Contradictions
While we honor our journey and evolution in education, we must also deal with the repercussions our pendulum-swinging education system has had on the most marginalized students, writes Deitra Colquitt.
Investing in Teachers Is Our Nation’s Most Important Jobs Strategy
As we enter long-COVID recovery, the educator workforce must be prioritized in discussions about the economy and jobs. Here is why: The educator workforce makes local economies work; the educator workforce makes families work; and the educator workforce prepares the future workforce, writes Stephanie Malia Krauss.
Community Colleges Must Put the ‘Education’ Back in Workforce Education
Postsecondary institutions are charged with developing people's academic skills, technical skills and positioning them for jobs and additional education through high-quality degree programs. Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education, writes Palm Beach State College's associate dean of industrial and technical programs Thomas Gauthier.
Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields
With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics, creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus, writes Melodie Baker, National Policy Director for Just Equations.