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A Tenuous Balance: Supporting Students While Pushing Their Learning Recovery
Getting students interested and excited about learning—a challenge that predates the pandemic—is harder than ever, according to a December EdWeek Research Center survey of 630 teachers across the country. Teachers, counselors, and district leaders alike acknowledge that a lot of these challenges existed prior to the pandemic’s start.
Teachers of Color Are Linked to Social-Emotional, Academic Gains for All Students
Teachers of color tend to bring specific practices and mindsets into the classroom that benefit all students, a new study finds—the latest addition to the body of research that emphasizes the importance of recruiting and retaining these teachers, who make up just 21% of the workforce.
More high schoolers are off track to graduate. Here’s how schools can help.
More ninth graders fell off track to graduate last year as failing grades and absences stacked up, new data from a handful of states show. The data provide more evidence of the difficulties high schoolers have faced while learning during a pandemic. After the first full school year disrupted by COVID, many states saw lower graduation rates for the class of 2021.
Analysis: School Quality, College and Career Pathways, Tracking — New Ed Surveys Find Surprising Agreement in How Parents & Young People Think
Two new surveys find parents and young adults are critical of the overall performance of K-12 and postsecondary education and want options beyond the singular “college for all."
Governors’ Leadership Remains Key To Advancing Apprenticeship In America
Targeted investment and state leadership have driven the expansion of registered apprenticeship into new sectors in addition to scaling the model in sectors where it was more traditionally used.
What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic
Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. And in fall 2021, 13 percent of responding institutions reported significant declines in new graduate student enrollment.
The US desperately needs skilled workers. But the community colleges that train them are woefully underfunded
Pandemic-related declines in enrollment, particularly in hands-on skilled trades courses, have only made things worse for these long-overburdened and underfunded schools. And while Covid relief money has served as a godsend for financially strapped community colleges, administrators say, those one-time funds are depleting.
College completion rates inch up to 62.2%, their highest level yet
The six-year completion rate for undergraduate students who started college in 2015 reached 62.2%, a 1.2 percentage point increase over the prior year's cohort, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Leading and learning for equity is a collective journey
Long Beach Unified School District’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development Nader I. Twal shares how his life experiences have shaped his approach to equity-centered teaching and leadership.