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NEWSFLASH: Experience Matters!

Jun 14 2016
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Diane Ravitch’s Blog | After noting that "anything LPI produces will be rigorously researched," Ravitch reviews LPI's Teacher Experience report and states that "it is of the utmost importance that respected researchers have refuted the claim that teachers do not improve as they gain experience."

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Far Too Many Teachers Aren’t Fully Qualified

Jun 14 2016
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Sacramento Bee Op-Ed by Karin Klein | With California’s potential teacher pool at a 12-year low, according to the LPI Teacher Shortage report, political willpower is needed to pass bills on loan forgiveness and teacher residencies and to send the message that fully credentialed and well-mentored teachers are important.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, State and Federal Policy
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Summer Can Increase Learning Gap

Jun 12 2016
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The Dais (Santa Fe, NM) by Jeannie Oakes | With academic research showing that two-thirds of the achievement gap between high- and low-income students can be attributed to summers, LPI Senior Fellow Jeannie Oakes urges the Sante Fe city government and nonprofits to launch a community-wide effort to increase summer learning opportunties for all of Sante Fe’s young people, regardless of income status.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
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Gli Insegnanti Anziani Fanno Meglio Di Quelli Giovani? Do Older (Experienced) Teachers Do Better Than Young (Newer)?

Jun 12 2016
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Tuttoscuola (Rome, Italy) | This blog post, in Italian, discusses the LPI Teaching Experience report’s rigorous methodology, which found that educators’ effectiveness increases at a greater rate when they accumulate experience in the same grade level, subject, or district.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Designing New Accountability: Leveraging ESSA’s Promise

Jun 07 2016
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Policy Insider Newsletter, Council for Exceptional Children | LPI's and SCOPE's joint publications, Redesigning School Accountability and Support: Progress in Pioneering States and Pathways to New Accountability Through the Every Student Succeeds Act, are seen as offering guidance for schools, districts, and states looking to leverage ESSA to reimagine their systems of support, improvement, opportunity, and accountability in order to deliver the best education possible for all children.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Equitable Resources and Access
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Maybe Old Teachers Don’t Suck

Jun 07 2016
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Curmudgucation News by Peter Greene | Experienced educator Peter Greene looks at the implications of the LPI Teaching Experience report's findings to bolster the argument that teaching experience does matter.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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6 June 2016 Reader: Mythbuster Edition

Jun 06 2016
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Becoming Radical by P.L. Thomas | Furman University education professor P.L. Thomas includes the Teaching Experience report among a collection of education-related links he calls “powerful mythbusters.”

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Does Teaching Experience Matter? Let’s Count the Ways

Jun 06 2016
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NEAToday by Tim Walker | Tim Walker reports on LPI's Teaching Experience research review, which drew on 30 studies published over the past 15 years. The review found that teachers, on average, increase their effectiveness as they gain experience, and this improvement continues in the second and often third decade of their careers.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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21 Women All K-12 Educators Should Know

Jun 05 2016
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Education Week Opinion by Peter DeWitt | Linda Darling-Hammond was named as one of the top women thought leaders on k-12 education.
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A Stanford Professor’s High-Stakes Plan to Save California Schools

Jun 04 2016
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CALMatters by Judy Lin | California's State Board of Education President Michael Kirst seeks to radically transform one of the nation’s largest public school systems, promote educational equity, and narrow the achievement gap. Linda Darling-Hammond calls his approach for local control and extra funding for high-need students "revolutionary" and “groundbreaking.”

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Equitable Resources and Access, State and Federal Policy

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Less Siloed, More Inclusive: Changes to Special Education Teacher Preparation Expected to Have Big Impact on School

Nov 30 2020

EdSource by Carolyn Jones | This article highlights an LPI report written by Naomi Ondrasek, Desiree Carver-Thomas, Caitlin Scott, and Linda Darling-Hammond on the state’s special education teacher shortage. It notes that, "As the pandemic has drawn more attention to the needs of students in special education, [California] is moving forward with changes to teacher preparation programs intended to improve learning conditions for California’s nearly 800,000 students with special needs.”

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What Do Principals Want From Professional Development?

Nov 19 2020

Education Week by Denisa R. Superville | Research has found that high-quality professional learning opportunities for principals—including preparation programs, induction supports for early career principals, ongoing training, one-on-one support through coaching and mentoring, and peer networks—can build leadership capacity. This Education Week article highlights key findings from an LPI and NAESP report written by Stephanie Levin, Melanie Leung, Adam K. Edgerton, and Caitlin Scott exploring the current status and future needs for elementary school principals’ professional learning.

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School Funding Could Be a Concern Beyond Next Year

Nov 19 2020

District Administration by Charles Hendrix | In this interview, Michael Griffith explores the financial challenges states and district face due to to COVID-19-related drops in state and local revenues. "Some districts have been forced to 'tap into' their budgets or their reserve funds to cover the increase in expenses," Griffith said.

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