New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut rank among the best states for students with regard to postsecondary education and employment. But which states could use improvement?
"Families have high expectations for their child's educations and the interactions they have with their school," a new analysis reads. "And when it comes to communication teachers, staff and administrators, the expectations rise even higher."
"We in leadership need to think differently about what our users—educators, support staff, parents—need out of data," said Ryan Gravette, director of information and technology at the Idaho Digital Learning Acadamy in Idaho.
"Remember, threat actors do not take a summer break," says James Turgal, Optiv's vice president of cyber risk, strategy and board relations. "Security is a one-time event but a continuous and evolutionary practice."
Since the height of the pandemic, the education sphere has only gotten more politicized as families gained a front row seat to their child's education during remote instruction. These seven surveys from the Pew Research Center offer a timeline of how this partisan divide transpired.
In an interview with The Guardian, the University of California professor and computer scientist Stuart Russell said tools like ChatGPT could result in fewer teachers being employed. Such innovations could result in "fewer teachers being employed—possibly even none," he said.
"For a long time, people looked at preparedness from an academic standpoint," says Scott Gengler, principal at Wayzata High School. "But I'm not sure kids see the relevancy all the time."
Across the nation, educator shortages continue unabated. But leaders in these three states are hoping to change the narrative through teacher-centered reform.
July 1 marked the beginning of the new fiscal year in most states, along with it new laws that will affect K12 and higher education. But for many teachers and students, they may prove themselves disruptive to learning and instruction.
Most teens firmly believe in the importance of a four-year college degree, but they're becoming increasingly open-minded toward other postsecondary opportunities, a new survey suggests.
