Tag: School models

December 1, 2022

School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students who do successfully navigate their schooling emerge with only […]

November 17, 2021

The report emphasizes the importance of early childhood education, especially during the pandemic, when it says “child care was more readily acknowledged as essential to the economy.” The pandemic heavily exacerbated teacher shortages. Education organizations wrote to Congressional leaders drawing […]

September 30, 2021

Using data to help guide decisions about increasing student engagement, providing extended learning opportunities, and finding effective ways to communicate with parents and students can help boost attendance rates as students adjust to full-time, in-person learning, panelists said during a […]

September 10, 2021

The movement to reform police activity on K-12 campuses, which had been building over the past 10 years, grew more intense after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a police officer, leading school systems like Chicago Public Schools and […]

May 24, 2018

Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against […]

March 16, 2017

These days, there are few that would disagree that education needs to start looking more like the world students will one day work and live in and less like, well, school. What that might look like in the future is […]

March 3, 2016

There are plenty of initiatives out there focused on getting kids more invested in computer science, but what happens when an entire school builds itself around coding? AFSE Juniors listen up, preparing for a “pair programming” assignment. (Mary Jo Madda) […]