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TEACHER VOICE: With hands-on activities, my chemistry students are building cities of the future
Four years ago, Gabrielino High School chemistry teacher David Cameron found my game-changer: a design-based, cross-curricular learning methodology rooted in principles of social justice and the physical world. It assumes what he has found to be true: that all types of learners have the capacity to become creative and critical thinkers.
A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education
Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project. The project will use place-based learning to provide professional development to teachers across the state by establishing a partnership between science researchers and educators to create lessons on Louisiana’s environmental issues, educate teachers about the state’s coastal challenges and unique ecosystems, and teach them how to collect, analyze and contribute to a database of environmental samples.
The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?
More workers without degrees are landing jobs they’d have been shut out of before. Will it last?
This California school opened a safe space for students 12 years ago. Now the idea is spreading.
The youth mental health crisis existed long before COVID, but it was exponentially worsened by the pandemic. Safe spaces like one at a Fresno middle school help connect kids with counselors and reduce stigma around mental health.
Blurring the lines between education and workforce
After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three.
OPINION: To counter educator bias, we need more Black teachers in our classrooms
Our system fails too many Black students. We can and must do better, writes Orville Jackson and Robert J. Hendricks III.
PROOF POINTS: States and localities pump more money into community colleges than four-year campuses
Politicians restore funding for institutions that conduct workforce training and favor free community college programs.
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.
Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind
Cierra Kaler-Jones started a program called Black Girls S.O.A.R. to bring her ideas about empowering Black girls to more students and educators. Co-designed with a handful of Black girls from Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, the program focuses on research- and arts-based projects structured around Black history and feminist thought, Afro-futurism and the history of organization and activism.