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Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Will the States Address the Role of Poverty in School Reform?
ESSA, the new federal education act, puts more authority in the hands of the states. Will the role and conditions of poverty be addressed in kids’ learning? Will old mistakes continue? Are well vetted approaches such as Richard DuFour’s Professional Learning Communities going to be enough? Continue reading
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Tagged development frontal cortex kids, Every Student Succeeds Act poverty, kids poverty unprepared school, legacy No Child Left Behind, low performing schools, quality early childhood education, Richard DuFour, role of poverty school reform, stresses of poverty, support new mothers, testing results evaluate teachers
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Do We Miss the Forest for the Trees? What Vital School Reform and Change for Kids is Percolating Under the Radar?
Does the economic and social vitality in abundant evidence in locales across the country, but beneath the national radar, parallel equally vital school and kid centered programming that so far has failed to register in national educational statistics? Maybe so. Continue reading
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Tagged black graduate matriculate, early childhood education, economic social vitality, innovative curricula, lead levels affect development, low income readiness school, mentors low income students, poverty predations, school relationships, shift social contract, skill emotional development
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See the Kids of Color
Summary: Paintings of young people by Kehinde Wiley are an opportunity to move beyond racial stereotypes and into contemplation of real lives. Continue reading
Housing Disorder, Poverty, and Test Scores
Summary: Poverty and serial housing destabilize the school fortunes of children from poor neighborhoods and stymie the battle to improve their academic skills. Promising political developments, economic insights and human resilience contribute hope to the schoolhouse.
School Reform: Tough to Measure and Hostage to Heightened Poverty
Summary: What is the report card on school reform? Test scores, mediocre at best, are too narrow a measure, though useful. Project based deep learning and interventions that motivate students are important, but difficult to measure. Increasing poverty and income … Continue reading
Notes from a Hopi Reservation, an American Story
Summary: A brief story of the perseverance of one man, in his life and with his demons on a reservation in Arizona, casts a useful light on the efforts of our school communities to come to grips with at risk … Continue reading
Charters: Discriminatory Suspension Patterns Linked to Focus on Test Scores
Summary: A new study out of UCLA finds that charters suspend African-American and disabled students far more frequently than whites and non-disabled students. While charters are designed for innovation, they have succumbed to some of the exclusionary tactics for which … Continue reading
School Reform and the Demise of the Bureaucrat
Summary: The transformation of Foster High School into a functioning academy for a largely immigrant multicultural population, with improved graduation rates, strong math scores, and a peaceful campus is a study in how communication and respect can melt away the … Continue reading
Posted in At Risk Students, School Bureaucracy
Tagged administrator leadership, at risk students, communication in schools, counselor role, empowering teachers, immigrant students, low-income students, relationships in schools, school bureaucracy, school funding, school reform, teacher overwork
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At Risk Kids and the Banner of Universal Preschool
Summary: Universal preschool has rightly been on the policy upswing, and while long term benefits look to be worth the cost, pivotal questions remain about curriculum appropriate to three and four year olds and the role of parent training.
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