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Sep 24, 2020
WASHINGTON –U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education Frank Brogan hosted a geographically diverse group of education practitioners to discuss successful strategies and innovative ideas they have implemented to reopen schools, rethink education and improve student outcomes during the Coronavirus pandemic.
“We are happy to see folks taking advantage of these opportunities to engage with…
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Sep 24, 2020
The National Center is excited to announce the launch of the Native Education Collaborative webpage that provides resources to state education agencies (SEAs), tribal education agencies (TEAs), local education agencies (LEAs), and other stakeholders engaged in Native education. Resources are organized into six categories that align with improving educational systems for American Indian and Alaska Native students. In this blog, we explore two of…
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Sep 21, 2020
Twenty states now have their school-by-school data featured on a new website released by the U.S. Department of Education (ED). In each case, the data are also available on the state’s report cards. So why the duplication?
Remember that ESSA required that states publish for the first time the expenditures for each school in the state. Most state agencies met the June, 2020 reporting deadline (for direct links to each state’s data see Edunomics…
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Sep 17, 2020
-This blog was authored by Kevin Waterman, a Research Scientist at Education Development Center.
As state and district educators grapple with the constantly changing landscape brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it has proved vital to heed the voices of those most directly affected by decisions about the upcoming school year. With support from the Region 2 Comprehensive Center (R2CC), the New York Board of Regents and the New York State…
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Sep 9, 2020
-This blog was authored by Emerson Lopez Odango (Region 18 Director), Christina Tydeman (REL-Pacific Director), Melly Wilson (Region 19 Director), and Kellie Kim (REL-Pacific Deputy Director)
Despite the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic created for some Comprehensive Center (CC) projects, there arose opportunities for accelerating cross-organizational collaboration. This blog highlights four areas of collaboration across the Region 18 CC,…
