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Perceiving Learning Anew
by Manuel Luis Espinoza and Shirin Vossoughi on September 12, 2014
The roots of “Perceiving Learning Anew” (Fall 2014, HER) stretch back to our work in graduate school at UCLA and our work with the Migrant Student Leadership Institute (MSLI), a summer, precollegiate program for high school–aged migrant students interested in attending college. Almost a decade after our participation, it is still a challenge to describe the dynamics of an educational setting that helped students reimagine the social world and their place in it.
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Equal Scrutiny in Contracts for Digital Education
by Patricia Burch and Annalee G. Good on July 31, 2014
Public school districts are under more pressure than ever to buy digital services and products. . . But there is an important backstory to the digital surge that deserves equal and careful scrutiny. Digital education is nested in a broader trend where public schools and governance structures have come under increasing pressure to contract out core functions of teaching, learning, and assessment, mirroring a rise of privatizing initiatives in other aspects of social policy.
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Eliminating Teacher Tenure Versus Improving Teacher Hiring: Why Improving Teacher Hiring Is a Better Bet
by Dale S. Rose on July 15, 2014
The recent Vergara v. California case has brought the issue of “grossly ineffective” teachers into the national spotlight. While there certainly are valid points on both sides of this case, the court case does illustrate a fundamental point . . . Namely, the notion that better teachers get better outcomes for students and so improving teacher quality is one critical way to improve schools.
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Why Meetings Matter
by Parker Boudett and Elizabeth A. City on July 1, 2014
Every day, millions of people gather in classrooms, faculty rooms, boardrooms, and (sometimes virtual) conference rooms to tackle problems that are so big that no individual can solve them alone. How to prepare students to thrive in a knowledge economy and rapidly developing world, how to support teachers in transforming their practice, how to create policy that drives opportunity and access for every learner—addressing each of these would truly make a big difference in learning and teaching. But although some of the meetings that could take on these issues are stimulating opportunities for generating ideas and creating solutions, many are not.
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Leaders Should Be Learners, Not Experts
by James Noonan on June 19, 2014
“Needs improvement” is a warning sign signaling that desperate measures may be needed to achieve proficiency. This is the world in which contemporary school reform is taking place.
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Pedagogy Beyond the White Gaze
by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim on March 31, 2014
During a long conversation last winter, Django Paris and H. Samy Alim looked to nuance and extend the emerging concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP).
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A Different Olympic Quest
by Sam M. Intrator and Don Siegel on March 10, 2014
The Sochi Olympics brought us transcendent moments of speed, grace, and power--and the opportunity to wonder: how did they get so good?
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Using the Arts to Turn Schools Around: Evidence builds in favor of integrating arts for positive outcomes
by Suzanne Bouffard on March 1, 2014
Ask students and parents how the arts are seen in their schools, and many will say that they are treated as add-on enrichment programs. But a new national initiative is betting that a full embrace of the arts can be an effective core turnaround strategy for schools with low achievement.
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The Role of Resource Reform in Improvement and Innovation
by Heather Zavadsky on February 26, 2014
Part of why classrooms look the same as they did more than fifty years ago is the tendency to cling to traditional instructional delivery methods and arrangements.
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Remembering Mandela in a New Demographic Era
by Stella M. Flores on January 30, 2014
The death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013, reignited the personal relationship Stella M. Flores has had with South Africa for decades.
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