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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement.

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Why We Should Expand Our OER Advocacy to Commercial Publishers

Iterating Toward Openness

Effective Advocacy. In 2002, UNESCO followed those leads choosing to name the subset of open content that was useful for teaching and learning “open educational resources,” instead of a name with “free” in the title.). (In What would higher education do in fall 2021? More OER options will lead to more OER adoptions.

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Here’s How Head Start Parents Are Building Careers As Early Childhood Educators

Edsurge

Until then she had never heard of the federal program, which provides high-quality early childhood education to more than one million children from low-income families each year. It’s in keeping with Head Start’s larger mission to serve two generations, empowering parents to pursue education and careers, often within Head Start facilities.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

A 2002 ballot initiative, supported by 61 percent of voters, made English-only instruction mandatory for students who need to learn the language (unless they get a special waiver). David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. Update on Testing Reform in Virginia.

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OPINION: The Opt Out movement is gaining ground, quietly

The Hechinger Report

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Standardized testing is a common feature in K-12 schooling in the United States, with federal legislation requiring since 2002 that states test virtually all children in grades 3-8 in mathematics and English language arts.

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Even as women outpace men in graduating from college, their earnings remain stuck

The Hechinger Report

Szoo is part of a long-running rise in the number of women getting higher educations, even as the number of men has been declining — a trend beginning to hit even male-dominated fields such as engineering and business. Women still earn 82 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men , Pew reports — a figure nearly unchanged since 2002.

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