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Joe Biden's Election as President Tees Up Massive Shifts for K-12 Policy
President-elect Joe Biden plans to pursue an ambitious agenda for K-12 education that will depend on cooperation from Congress and his administration's ability to address the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic on students and schools.
Six Areas of Immigration Policy the Biden Administration Is Likely to Address
When he enters the White House, Joe Biden will likely seek to reverse much of President Donald Trump’s immigration legacy and push ahead with his own agenda. While some measures could be quickly rescinded, the multitude of Trump administration changes could take months or years to undo.
WMU professor uses affordable tech to boost English language learners skills
It's black, plastic and fits in the palm of your hand. Selena Protacio, who holds a doctorate degree in education, didn't invent the handheld voice recorder, but she is getting recognition for her grant award to bring the affordable technology to her English language learning students.
This Anchorage mom is trying to keep up with her kids’ online learning and keep a business afloat
The school day started around 9 a.m. in a tidy mobile home in South Anchorage where Elisa Yepez Oregel lives with her husband and their four kids. Vanessa, a fourth grader at Klatt Elementary, sat in front of a laptop at the kitchen table, as her teacher told her what assignments she still needed to do. From the other end of the table came the sounds of a first-grade class. A teacher was guiding students through pronouncing letters, but 6-year-old Manuel Isaac sat back in his chair and didn’t say anything. Next to him was sixth-grader Kasandra who helped her younger siblings, and also logged into her own class on another laptop. Meanwhile their mom, Yepez Oregel, talked to her son in Spanish, telling him to pay attention to his class and not hit his sister. Her youngest daughter, 2-year-old Alyssa Valentina, toddled across the floor. This is what weekday mornings have looked like for the past couple months at 36-year-old Yepez Oregel’s home. It goes on like this for a few hours. Then the kids pack up and they all head to the family’s restaurant, Pedro’s Mexican Grill.
Making Hybrid Teaching Work for Educators & Students
The new question-of-the-week is: "What are the do's and don'ts of hybrid teaching?" Today, Deborah Gatrell, Amy Roediger, and Carina Whiteside provide their suggestions. Larry Ferlazzo also include comments from readers.
Some child care centers have become more than places that provide care
When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee in the spring, staff members knew they would need to do more than simply move their classes online. The early learning center, located in a southwest Florida community with a poverty rate of over 50 percent, serves a large percentage of children whose parents are migrant farm workers or work in the hospitality field. As parents found themselves out of work and struggling to pay bills, school officials sprang into action, delivering food, diapers and cleaning supplies to families, providing financial support for rent and utilities and connecting families with community partners for more assistance.
Children From Immigrant Families Are Increasingly the Face of Higher Education
U.S.-born children of immigrants or immigrant students raised in the United States accounted for nearly 60 percent of the growth in university enrollment since 2000.
The Do's & Don'ts of Hybrid Teaching
The odds are that, at one point or another, all of us teachers are going to end up teaching in some version of a "hybrid" environment this school year. That could mean teaching some groups of students two days each week in the classroom, while they spend the rest of the time doing asynchronous online work. Worst of all, it could mean teaching students simultaneously online and face to face. This series will share the experiences of educators who have already begun teaching in this kind of situation. Who would be better people to learn from? Today, Amber Chandler, Tara C. Dale, and Holly Spinelli offer their hard-won experiences.
Nonprofits step in to help working parents making “impossible choices”
When schools in northern California shut down in mid-March due to the coronavirus, Casino Fajardo and his wife did their best to balance watching their children while working full-time. For several months, they switched off supervising their children, 5 and 9, while taking back-to-back video calls and responding to in-person work responsibilities, which were at times required for Fajardo in his role as construction director for a local school district. Both often stayed up until midnight or later to catch up on work.
Politics Belongs in the Classroom
The new question-of-the-week is: "What are the best ways to respond when teachers are told we should keep politics out of the classroom?" Today, Abeer Shinnawi, Jennifer Hitchcock, Matt Renwick, and Leah B. Michaels add to the conversation....
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