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EdTech 10: Dog Days of Summer
Its been a jam packed summer as education news is heating up around the country. As store shelves slowly replace BBQ equipment and sunscreen with backpacks and school supplies we’re bringing you the top EdTech news of the week to cool you off.
OECD: Innovation Can Improve Learning, Equity, Efficiency and the Economy
“Innovation in the public sector in general, and in education in particular, could be a major driver for significant welfare gains,” says a new report from the OECD, Measuring Innovation in Education.
Fortified Environments Turnaround Impacts of Poverty
Dr. Pamela Cantor, Turnaround CEO, believes it is becoming clear in research and practice that mindsets and self regulation “are both highly malleable and responsive to positive influences, including well designed classrooms, the most powerful of which include meaningful connections with adults.”
What are Teachers Responsible For?
Where does the current emphasis on accountability come from? I think it comes from a desperate need for equity and justice – from the awareness that has been raised by the national high-stakes testing of students that there is a very real and tragic difference in the outcomes of poor students versus those that are more affluent.
Poverty: High on the Edu Agenda, Not a Campaign Issue
Frank McCaughey is a teacher in the Bronx where 80 percent of the students in his school live in or near poverty. Frank posted a blog today, “The Biggest Challenge I Face in my Classroom,” where he urged policy makers to take on “the devastation that extreme poverty…
Report: From Remediation to Acceleration
Jobs for the Future released "From Remediation to Acceleration: Early Lessons from Two Philadelphia Back on Track Schools," a report that discusses how to bring students in drop-out recovery programs up to speed and ready for college, this October.
Losing Our Way
Bob Herbert's last column for the NYT is titled Losing Our Way. As he's done for 18 years, he rails against our inattention to unemployment, poverty and income inequality.
Segregation Rates Higher than 1970s Tally, NAACP
This bit of news from our partners at Education Equality Project created the stark realization that segregation is increasingly becoming a bigger problem than it was forty years ago.
Those Most in Need, Often Most Ignored
It's funny how the cycle of need works. Those who need the most attention often become entirely invisible. How can education reformers discover routes into new thinking, and new policy that uncovers these hidden gems? We post one of the compelling thinkers in this space, from an EEP update in today's equity story.
Keep Reform Gears in Motion, Obama
With an election year coming up, education could fall under the manipulative hands of politicians trying to win over constituents. A CNN reporter urges President Barack Obama to stay focused and to continue with his aggressive education reform agenda.