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WEBThe 74 interviews the top thinkers, policymakers and leaders in American education. College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America's high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers. An Enduring Legacy of the …
How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
WEBSep 14, 2023 · A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...
‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create …
Teach to One: Inside the Personalized Learning Program That Bill …
WEBJun 16, 2016 · Imagine a team of curriculum advisors and monitors holed up in a bunker working exclusively on your student’s math class, matching learning goals, skill libraries and achievements with the related coursework. And then doing the same for every other student. That’s the reality of Teach To One: Math from New Classrooms, except, of …
Washington Jesuit Academy Leads Graduates from D.C.’s ... - The 74
WEBJun 2, 2016 · This year’s graduation speaker was Reggie Love, who in his mid-20s became the “body man” for then-Sen. Barack Obama and served in the White House until 2011. Love told the graduates to have patience and persistence in their future endeavors. A string of big names have addressed the middle school since its first class graduated in 2005.
Exclusive: Analysis — How 18 Top Charter School Networks Are
WEBAug 27, 2020 · Last spring, some of the nation’s most prominent charter networks quickly rolled out remote learning after school closures, including mechanisms that monitored students’ academic progress and gave them access to live lessons. This fast response may have put these charter schools in a strong position to serve students and families …
Facing Regional Shortages, U.S. Schools Now Employing 160,000 …
WEBOct 5, 2022 · New research suggests Anderson’s instincts were right: U.S. schools currently employ at least 163,650 underqualified educators, teachers working without state certification or outside of their subject area. In 2017, at least 109,000 underqualified teachers were estimated to be in classrooms. The underqualified group comprises …
40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and ... - The 74
WEBDec 12, 2023 · Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter. Forty years ago, the release of A Nation at Risk (ANAR) led to what is known today as the modern school reform movement. With its calls for increased academic rigor, more productive use of instructional time, more effective teaching and more impactful …
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
WEBMar 19, 2024 · A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
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WEBTeen Activist Rhea Maniar on the Power of Abortion to Turn Out Young Voters. With Kamala Harris atop the Democratic ticket and abortion ballot measures in eight states, Maniar sees a potentially record-breaking youth turnout. Amanda Geduld. The 74 Interview.