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The shift toward skills-based hiring is changing the job interview
In this episode of Work in Progress, SHRM president & CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., joins to discuss the movement toward skills-based hiring, how hiring managers and employers are navigating this shift, and what job seekers can do to increase their chances of getting hired.
What’s Ahead for the Nation’s First Federally Approved Teacher-Apprenticeship Program?
Tennessee’s Grow Your Own (GYO) work is an educator-preparation strategy focused on developing and retaining candidates from local communities, for local communities. Learn more about their work and what's ahead.
Bill would give $25,000 to aspiring school counselors, social workers
Tony Thurmond is pushing for a bill that would provide up to $25,000 in grants for students pursuing careers in school counseling, social work and other fields related to youth mental health. Senate bill 1229 aims to bring 10,000 new mental health professionals to California young people, who’ve struggled with soaring rates of depression, anxiety and stress.
Teachers are the most burned-out professionals in the U.S., Gallup poll finds
The burnout gap between K-12 educators and the rest of the American workforce is growing, research shows.
How 100 Large and Urban Districts Are (and Aren’t) Engaging Stakeholders
Districts are supposed to gather local feedback on how to spend their ESSER pandemic relief money. One year in, 1 out of 3 may not be complying.
Why we stay: 3 Massachusetts principals on striking a balance between pressure, progress
Despite the challenges, seeing students and educators strive to achieve makes it worth staying in the profession, a trio of school leaders writes.
GAO: Pandemic hurt student progress at all grade levels
Students across all grade levels and instructional models made less academic progress during the pandemic-strained 2020-21 school year compared to a more typical school year, according to a teacher survey conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Early data offers a sobering look at interrupted and incomplete learning, but there is hope ahead
The latest study from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research is based on testing data from 2.1 million students across the country. It shows that school closures widened both economic and racial inequality in learning — which was already at unacceptable rates prior to the pandemic.
It’s Time to Soften Schools, Not Harden Them
We should focus more on softening schools—doing the difficult but essential preventative work of creating safer school communities, writes Isabelle Hau.