Students in schools with majorities of Black and low-income students are underperforming compared to peers in other schools.

Experts say solutions must address systemic roots. 🧵(1/7)
publicsource.org/pps-test-score… #tellEWA

I enjoyed our discussion today with ⁦Ruth Serven Smith⁩ talking about 10 education stories to watch. We wound discussing a few more than 10 ideas 😀. #nabj23 #tellewa

🧵College tuition breaks for Native students are spreading, but only some Indigenous people benefit. The U.S. government does not formally acknowledge the status of an estimated 400 tribes, thus shutting them out of programs meant to reduce barriers to higher ed. #tellEWA

How does a teacher use artificial intelligence in an AP Psychology and a civics class? Find out.
cpr.org/2024/04/25/art… #edcolo #TellEWA CO Dept of Education The AI Education Project (aiEDU) Steffi @MagicSchoolAI

Aryana Mohajerian Laguna Beach USD shows us high schoolers can do impressive & valuable research! 🔎📷 See the latest Psychology Today interview!📷

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/much-m…

#TellEWA #EdChat #DifferentiatedInstruction #PBL #LBHS

We found apparent campaign finance violations among 3 School Committee and 1 Select Board candidates in Rochester (3 of 4 won their races)

A potential violation: candidates may have coordinated with a PAC that raised tens of thousands $$
#maEdu #TellEWA

newbedfordlight.org/4-candidates-i…

PPS magnets seem to exist for the “most privileged, most advantaged and least disabled,” co-chair of the board's policy committee Pam Harbin said, increasing inequities in the district.

Attempts to reform the policy have seen little results. 🧵
publicsource.org/pps-magnet-sch… #tellEWA

Allderdice High School and Westinghouse Academy of Pittsburgh Public Schools are three miles apart but worlds away in AP courses, student experience and staffing. Read more on PublicSource's series, Uneven Scales: publicsource.org/pps-westinghou… #tellEWA

What a week for #HigherEd in Texas. Check out our Dallas Morning News coverage of the protests and why students here are demanding action as the conflict in Gaza continues #txlege #tellEWA

My pick for #tellEWA : Maura Turcotte’s deep dive into the facility issues plaguing South Carolina’s rural schools postandcourier.com/education-lab/…

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Really cool piece from Greg Toppo that frames the current ed tech arms race to create an AI tutor through the lens of a failed $100M effort by IBM's Watson supercomputer. The gist: We're not there...yet. #tellEWA The 74 the74million.org/article/a-caut…

Winston is always honored to be featured in the Education Writers Association newsletter, a real hot dog star #TellEWA

A growing number of El Paso kids are facing felony charges for vaping THC. About 60% of these arrests were conducted by school resource officers. Here is how some schools are handling it.
#tellEWA
elpasomatters.org/2023/08/08/el-…

.FIRE is also looking into allegations by students at UTSA that certain words were banned during a march and rally. University officials denied the allegations. Read more: sanantonioreport.org/students-alleg… via San Antonio Report #TellEWA

The University of Idaho has run up more than $10 million of consulting costs — and counting. If the University of Phoenix purchase falls through, the U of I might be forced to eat the costs. #idleg #idpol #idedu #tellEWA idahoednews.org/top-news/u-of-…

Post-Pandemic Test Scores Show Schools Struggling to Catch Up — ProPublica #tellEWA propublica.org/article/pandem…

Important new data from Beth Hawkins:

—major jumps in the number of students hearing homophobic remarks from school staff, even in blue states

—76% of Texas students reported hearing transphobic remarks from adults in school, 80% in Louisiana

the74million.org/article/scared… #TellEWA

I'm so grateful Idaho Education News gave me the opportunity to share my own story.

I took a gap year after high school. With that, came doubts from some adults in my life. But that year was, by far, the best learning experience I've ever had — I've never regretted it. #tellEWA

A initiative at Adams State — one of the first of its kind in the country — focuses on employing incarcerated people with graduate degrees as college professors, rather than bringing in instructors from the outside. chalkbeat.org/colorado/2024/…

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