‘Every weld is a challenge’
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by Joanne
1y ago
Photo: Pixabay Philadelphia schools are focusing career-tech training on preparing students to move from high school to apprenticeships and skilled jobs, reports Chalkbeat’s Dale Mezzacappa. Ahjhané  Blackwell discovered a flair for welding. With help from the Talent Pipeline Project, she found a job at Rhoads Industries, which specializes in industrial  fabrication, installation, and maintenance for ships. She spoke at the “signing day” ceremony at which CTE graduates declare which job offer they’re accepting. “Every weld is a challenge,” Ahjhané said. “And every challenge is an o ..read more
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Hot jobs of the future: welder, plumber …
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by Joanne
1y ago
Tennessee’s technical colleges focus on job skills, such as mechatronics. We’ve reached peak college, writes urbanist Joel Kotkin in Newsweek. The jobs of the future are in the skilled trades. “Over the past 20 years, we have created twice as many bachelor’s degrees as jobs to employ those who have earned them, he writes. A survey taken in 2020 found that only a third of undergraduates see their educations as advancing their career goals, and barely one in five think the BA is worth the cost. . . . The vast majority of young people prioritize such things as finding a good paying job ov ..read more
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Black male teachers are not security guards
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by Joanne
1y ago
If schools want more black male teachers, principals will have to let them be teachers — not security guards — writes Durrell Burns. Durrell Burns When he started teaching, he was “excited to make a difference,” he writes in Education Next. “But I often felt pigeonholed into stereotypical roles, asked to serve as a disciplinarian for young Black boys or to teach more basic, non-academic classes.” “A 2017 study found that low-income Black students who have a Black teacher for at least one year in elementary school are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider col ..read more
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Out the classroom door, but still teaching
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by Joanne
1y ago
While there’s little evidence of a “Big Quit” in education there may be a Significant Shift in how teachers see their options, writes Linda Jacobson on The 74. Prenda microschools are expanding . Those who leave traditional schools can find flexible jobs in new school models, such as online and microschools, she writes. As a counselor in a Vermont school district, Heather Long felt she couldn’t meet the explosion in “mental health needs” caused by pandemic restrictions. She now runs a microschool out of her home as part of Prenda, a network of tuition-free, small-group programs, writes Jacob ..read more
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Mayors: Don’t limit new charters 
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by Joanne
1y ago
Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. Proposed changes in federal funding would “privilege . . . distant bureaucrats” over the “interests and needs of our diverse school communities.” Mayor Joe Hogsett, who’s seen charters boost achievement in Indianapolis, signed a letter asking for federal support for new charter schools. “Public charter schools are essential levers in achieving education equity,” they write. The proposed rules would constrain schools and educators “at a time when more familie ..read more
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Indy charters: 116-day boost in math
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by Joanne
1y ago
Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). Growth scores from 2018-19 show 116 days of additional learning in math, 64 days in reading for charter students, notes the Mind Trust. Black and Hispanic students showed even stronger gains: Black students in charter schools achieved growth equivalent to: 144 days of additional learning in math relative to Black students in Indianapolis traditional public schools. 86 days of additional l ..read more
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‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
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by Joanne
1y ago
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports Iran Dahir on BuzzFeed News. Panda Dulce, a social worker, resumed reading to children after intruders were removed. The men accused the organizer of being a pedophile and one wore a T-shirt showing an AR-15 with the text “Kill your local pedophile.” Deputies escorted the men out, and drag queen Panda Dulce went on with the event, which had attracted five or six children, parents and community members. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigat ..read more
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If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’ 
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by Joanne
1y ago
? A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride” event. That’s silly, writes Reason‘s Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Some kids in attendance tipped the drag performers with dollar bills, which—despite its association with strip clubs—is not in itself a sexual thing (we hand dollars to street performers, too, don’t we?). The most risqué thing about the event was a neon sign on the bar’s wall which said “it’s not gonna lick itself”—a message that most certainly went over small children’s heads and, in any event ..read more
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No learning loss in Sweden
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by Joanne
1y ago
Photo: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels In Sweden, which kept schools open throughout the pandemic, first- through third-graders made normal progress in reading, concludes a newly published study. There was no learning loss. Disadvantaged students did not lose ground. Keeping schools open avoided “lasting damage” to children, writes Alex Gutentag on Tablet. “When Sweden kept schools open for children up to age 16 without masks in the spring of 2020, for example, not a single child died, and teachers were not at elevated risk for severe COVID-19 ..read more
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Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
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by Joanne
1y ago
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents seem to realize,” wrote Harvard researcher Thomas Kane in The Atlantic. Photo: WikiImages/Pixabay Schools have reopened. The next school year might be “normal.” Will students start catching up on “unfinished” or “lost” learning? Will achievement scores rebound? No, predicts Mike Goldstein, founder of Match Education. He foresees a “second wave” of learning loss in 2023 and 2024. Students are working less in class and spending more time on their screens, h ..read more
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