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New Report: How to Build Culturally Affirming Schools, According to Over 100 Black Teachers
Recruiting a diverse staff and building a “family-like” school culture are among the key action steps more than 100 Black educators recommend school leaders follow in a recent report released by Teach Plus and the Center for Black Educator Development.
Rising HS Dropout Rates & Declining Community College Enrollment Are Twin COVID Crises. How to Fix the Broken Education Pipeline
Clarity, guidance & relevance are what students seek at both the high school and college levels. Our education system owes them all three, and it needs to deliver them acting as a united force writes Lumina Foundation's Chauncy Lennon and Linked Learning Alliance's Anne Stanton.
From IT to property management, paid internships are connecting teens to careers
Urban Alliance has placed over 6,000 teenagers in internships and has trained more than 21,000 in workforce skills.
How My Virtual Internship Prepared Me in Ways I Never Imagined
Although COVID-19 curtailed my education experience, it did not stop me from pursuing a meaningful internship to advance my career, writes high schooler Amy Tochimani on her virtual internship experience.
Getting Parents Excited About Project-Based Learning
Teachers can use these handy talking points to move parents from being skeptical about PBL to “why didn’t I get to do this in school?”
Has COVID-19 finally brought skilled trades into the spotlight?
Over the past 18 months, skilled tradespeople have been keeping life going. Think of the HVAC technicians and plumbers who have helped newly-remote workers deal with overused air conditioners, dishwashers, and water heaters.
Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds
As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing the internet. A new study shows that one reason is racial segregation.
3 Powerful Lessons for Teachers From Remote Teaching
High school teachers can focus on what they learned from pandemic instruction to support students’ learning in the classroom this year.
What's next for California education? New laws and vetoes
This year, the Legislature’s focus on education was on Covid-related bills and on a record-high state budget, which includes tens of billions of new and one-time spending, along with policy decisions on how to spend the money.