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September 10, 2018 News
Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women. As students have returned to school, they have been greeted by teachers who, more likely than not, are white women. That means many students will be continuing to see teachers who are a different gender than they are, and a different skin color. Does it matter?...Read MoreSeptember 8, 2018 News
Esther Cepeda: More minorities, females are entering STEM-career pipeline
Finally, some good news for brown and black students: A record number of them took Advanced Placement computer-science exams and earned a high enough score to qualify for college credit. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the AP program, recently reported these three very bright spots: African-American students saw the most growth in participation, with an increase...Read MoreSeptember 7, 2018 News
Hearing Looks at On-the-Job Training to Bridge Skills Gap
More than 6 million jobs are going unfilled in the U.S. as employers struggle to find applicants who can do the work. Forty-six percent of U.S. employers say they can’t find workers with the skills they need, according to a recent Manpower survey. A congressional subcommittee hearing Wednesday examined how the 2014 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) supports work-based...Read MoreSeptember 5, 2018 News
Walsh: Teacher Residencies Are Fine. But Districts Already Have the Power to Fix the Student Teacher Pipeline — at Far Lower Cost
A growing number of school districts are embracing the teacher residency model as a solution to their shortage of educators. For those districts with the financial resources or access to stable philanthropic support necessary to offset the high cost of this model, the investment yields real benefits: Residents tend to be more diverse and more likely to persist in the profession than the...Read MoreSeptember 5, 2018 News
One state, three lists of troubled schools – another consequence of Tennessee’s testing mess
After months of talks, federal and Tennessee education officials have come to terms on how to identify and address the state’s lowest-performing schools in light of last spring’s problem-plagued student assessment program. Their agreement, which navigates conflicting state and federal lawsover the use of test results, means the state Education Department will release three lists of challenged...Read MoreSeptember 3, 2018 News