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  • Webinar

    Leading the Way: How States Are Using Deeper Learning Assessments

    May 17 2018
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    The third webinar in LPI’s series, Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, will explore how states are using and sharing information on deeper learning assessments. Specific projects, like the 4 State Performance Assessment Project and the State Performance Assessment Learning Community (SPA-LC), will be discussed along with two major efforts underway in Washington that incorporate performance assessments in ways that engage students in three-dimensional science learning.
    Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources​ and Access
  • Webinar: How Teacher Leadership, Career Ladders and Relicensure can Support Teaching for Deeper Learning
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    Webinar: Teacher Professional Development for Deeper Learning

    Apr 25 2018
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    April 25, 3 p.m. (ET). “How Teacher Leadership, Career Ladders and Relicensure can Support Teaching for Deeper Learning,” looks at policy and program structures that can support teaching for deeper learning. Hosted by Learning Forward in partnership with LPI, National Association of State Boards of Education, and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
    Topic Educator Quality
  • Event Video: Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color
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    Event Video: Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

    Apr 19 2018
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    At this briefing, speakers discussed a new report from the Learning Policy Institute, Diversifying the Teaching Profession: Barriers to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color and How to Overcome Them. The report reviews the research on the recruitment and retention of teachers of color, examines the current state of teachers of color in the workforce and the factors that affect their recruitment, hiring, and retention, and highlights opportunities for policymakers to grow a stable workforce of teachers of color in their districts and states.
    Topic Educator Quality
  • Patricia Gándara: Immigrant Students: Our Kids, Our Future
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    Immigrant Students: Our Kids, Our Future

    Patricia Gándara
    Apr 19 2018
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    This blog post, from Dr. Patricia Gándara, LPI Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, is part of the Learning Policy Institute series, Education and the Path to Equity. Dr. Gándara discusses the changing demographics of immigrant students and how they’ve been impacted by increased immigration enforcement practices. She also argues for reframing how we think about immigrant students to focus on their assets, which “prime them to be the very best learners in our schools.”
    Topics Equitable Resources​ and Access, Deeper Learning
  • Research Brief: Diversifying the Teaching Profession Through High-Retention Pathways
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    Diversifying the Teaching Profession Through High-Retention Pathways

    Desiree Carver-Thomas
    Apr 19 2018
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    More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.
    Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention​, Equitable Resources​ and Access
  • Report: Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color
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    Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

    Desiree Carver-Thomas
    Apr 19 2018
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    More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.
    Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention​, Equitable Resources​ and Access
  • Event Video: Performance Assessment briefing
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    Event Video: Performance Assessment: An Opportunity to Advance Educational Equity and Transform Teaching and Learning

    Apr 12 2018
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    As states, districts, and schools are expanding instruction to include the competencies associated with college, career, and civic readiness, they are also developing ways to measure mastery of higher-order thinking skills. These measures include performance assessments that show what students know and can do through demonstrations of their thinking, writing, research, and products. During this briefing, speakers shared information on how performance assessments can inform teaching and learning, advance educational equity, and be used to inform the postsecondary admission, placement, and advisement process in ways that increase access.
    Topic Deeper Learning
  • Kerner At 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred
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    Kerner At 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred

    Linda Darling-Hammond
    Apr 11 2018
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    Fifty years ago, the Kerner Commission issued a seminal report on racial division and disparities in the United States. With this blog by Learning Policy Institute (LPI) President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, LPI is launching a new series, Education and the Path to Equity. With it, we commemorate the release of the Kerner report and examine the persistent struggle to provide an equitable education for each and every student.
    Topic Equitable Resources​ and Access
  • Webinar

    Webinar: Leveraging ESSA’s Title II for Job-Embedded Professional Development

    Mar 21 2018
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    On March 21, LPI, the National Conference of State Legislatures, Learning Forward, and the National Association of State Boards of Education launched State Efforts for Building an Effective, Diverse Teacher Workforce, a series of webinars on how states can help develop and support a diverse workforce of teachers who develop greater mastery and leadership. The first webinar addressed opportunities under ESSA for effective professional learning systems, professional development to help teachers provide instruction that supports deeper learning, and how state departments of education can work with state boards of education to develop state-funded strategies.
    Topic Educator Quality
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    How Performance Assessments Support Deeper Learning and Equity

    Mar 20 2018
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    On March 20, LPI held the second webinar in a series that explores why deeper learning is crucial for students in today’s innovation economy and how we can achieve greater equity in access to deeper learning. This webinar explored how performance assessments are providing all students, including those who are farthest from opportunity, a vehicle to show what they know in a way that matters.
    Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources​ and Access

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Report: Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color
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Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

Apr 19 2018
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More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.
Building an Early Learning System that Works: Next Steps for California
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Building an Early Learning System that Works: Next Steps for California

Jan 23 2018
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There is overwhelming evidence that children’s early years, from birth through preschool, are a crucial time for their development, and that high-quality early learning opportunities support children’s school readiness, promote later life success, and yield a return of up to $7 for every $1 invested. Providing access to high-quality ECE for all children in California will require a comprehensive approach to turning an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers. A complement to LPI’s earlier report Understanding California’s Early Care and Education System, this report examines the challenges California’s counties face in providing ECE and provides recommendations for improving access to high-quality ECE for all children.
The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and Higher Education Admissions
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The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and Higher Education Admissions

Jan 18 2018
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A new study looks at the use of performance assessments for both K-12 learning and college admission, placement and advising. The study is the first research produced through Reimagining College Access, a national initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel that for the first time brings together k-12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to recognize and foster high-quality k–12 performance assessment systems.