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Here’s How the Education World Thinks the Feds Should Regulate Under ESSA

Jan 22 2016
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EdWeek Politics K-12 blog by Andrew Ujifusa | How should the U.S. Department of Education regulate under the Every Student Succeeds Act? More than 200 comments were received by the department in January 2016. Linda Darling-Hammond is quoted in the article on testing: "High-quality assessments are critical in helping educators and students master deeper learning. No single assessment can evaluate all of the kinds of learning we value for students, nor can a single instrument meet all of the goals held by parents, practitioners, and policymakers."

Topic Accountability and Improvement
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Teacher School District Teacher Shortages

Jan 22 2016
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Epoch Times by Feng-Pro (in Chinese) | The Learning Policy Institute report on Teacher Shortages is discussed in this article.
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Top Performers Offer U.S. Much More Effective Models of Teacher PD

Jan 21 2016
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Education Week Opinion by Marc Tucker | At an event in January 2016, NCEE released two reports on teachers' professional development commissioned by their Center on International Education Benchmarking. Panelists, including Linda Darling-Hammond, were interviewed for this blog.

Topics Educator Quality: Professional Learning, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development
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Report Sounds Alarm on CA Teacher Shortage, Offers Solutions

Jan 21 2016
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LA School Report by Craig Clough | California’s teacher shortage is only going to grow more problematic unless the state takes action, according to a new report from the Learning Policy Institute. The report, Addressing California’s Emerging Teacher Shortage: An Analysis of Sources and Solutions, analyzes the origins of the shortage and also offers policy recommendations on how to fix it.
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Cool Interactive Feature on California’s Teacher Shortage

Jan 20 2016
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School Bytes blog by Claudia Meléndez Salinas | My recent story on the teacher shortage mentioned a study by the Learning Policy Institute, led by Linda Darling-Hammond, that predicts the problem could get worse if not tackled soon and offers possible solutions. The study comes with a snazzy, interactive chart of "teacher shortage" indicators, such as the percentage of teachers older than 50 (30 percent in Monterey County) and the percentage of 'underqualified' teachers (3.5 percent).

Topic Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention
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Schools Increasingly Turn to ‘Underprepared’ Teachers to Fill Vacancies

Jan 19 2016
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EdSource by Louis Freedberg | To cope with a widening shortage of teachers, California school districts are hiring an increasing number of teachers with “substandard” permits and credentials, as well as relying on short-term substitute teachers, according to a new report.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Federal Officials Urged Not to Step on State’s School Reforms

Jan 19 2016
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EdSource by John Fensterwald | Superintendents, teachers, advocates for students, and business and community leaders sounded a strong, though not unanimous, call Monday for federal officials to give California wide berth to fashion a school improvement system without micromanagement from Washington.
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How to Fix the Country’s Failing Schools. And How Not To.

Jan 19 2016
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New York Times Sunday Review by David L. Kirp | A quarter-century ago, Newark and nearby Union City epitomized the failure of American urban school systems. Today Union City, which opted for homegrown gradualism, is regarded as a poster child for good urban education. Newark, despite huge infusions of money and outside talent, has struggled by comparison.

Topics Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design, Equitable Resources and Access
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California Teacher Shortage Could Get Worse, Report Warns

Jan 19 2016
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Monterey Herald by Claudia Meléndez Salinas | The teacher shortage in the K-12 system has become so critical that a local school district is offering a $10,000 signing bonus for its next math and science teachers.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality: Professional Learning
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Help Wanted: Especially in Math, Science, Special Education

Jan 19 2016
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The Record by Nicholas Filipas | Education leaders, experts, and policy makers came together Tuesday at the Sacramento Public Library to find solutions to combat an emerging teaching shortage, felt from up north in the Sierras to the beaches of San Diego and right here in the Central Valley.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality: Evaluation & Career Development, Equitable Resources and Access, Educator Quality: Professional Learning

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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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