Five decades ago, the U.S. was training an army of college students to become teachers, with 1 in every 5 bachelor's degrees earned in the field of education. Today, college students are more likely to study business, engineering, and even the visual and performing arts.
"Those goals are ambitious," he says. "They're a stretched goal. Every one of them. In the minds of some, almost unreasonable. But I don't think they are. They're going to force us to reinvent ourselves to really pivot away from the way business and the work were doing into a new reality of education."
Small changes to instructional practices can drive big growth. Teachers in two diverse schools are proving that personalized learning can jibe with state standards learning time is maximized.
Leaders are determined to extend academic recovery, but they're also preparing to cut new staff that has been hired to beef up instruction and scrambling to find the funding to sustain effective programs.
Those hoping that more rigorous social studies instruction in K12 will heal some of the nation's political divisions may be discouraged by what researchers have found in U.S. elementary schools.
We're likely to miss the root causes of drops in test scores and other issues because we don't often collect 'warm data' about how our students are feeling.
Nearly 80% of the schools that participated in a new survey reported vacancies while nearly all of the districts said their shortages are as bad or worse than last year.
We combined our tri-county area's love of football with our passion for reading by hosting an event that brought the two together: Literacy Under the Lights.
