Education is a constitutional right of every citizen. That prepares an individual to play their role as a sophisticated member of society. The importance of Education can be implied by habituating the lack of its existence.
The importance of education and its significance can be understood. Through the life of an ignorant and illiterate person. Who has never had the chance to visit the school. And is experiencing the bane of illiteracy could value the answer to the question. Why is Ed an essential factor in our life?’ He/she knows the prominence and importance of Ed and its changes in an individual’s life.
The enormous hardship of illiteracy is its constant dependency issue. An illiterate individual depends on others for his/her survival. Education prepares its wings to fly and explore the surroundings while being confident and opportunistic. Education builds individuals, educated individuals build better societies, and better societies build great nations.
Integration: Over several months this past spring, national correspondent Beth Hawkins tracked the groundbreaking integration efforts of the 78207, the zip code located on the west side of San Antonio, Texas. It is the poorest neighborhood in America’s most economically segregated city. 91 percent of students in the San Antonio Independent School District are Latino, 6 percent are black, and 93 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. As Beth reports, into this divided landscape three years ago came a new schools chief. Pedro Martinez, with a mandate to break down the centuries-old economic isolation that has its heart in the 78207. In response, Martinez launched one of America’s most innovative and data-informed school integration experiments.
He started with a novel approach that yielded eye-popping information: Using family income data, he created a map showing the depth of poverty on each city block and in every school in the district — a color-coded street guide comprising granular details unheard of in education. And then he started integrating schools, not by race, but by income, factoring in a spectrum of additional elements, such as parents’ education levels and homelessness.
To achieve the kind of integration he was looking for, he would first have to better understand the gradations of poverty in every one of his schools and what kinds of supports those student populations require, and then find a way to woo affluent families from other parts of the city to disrupt these concentrations of unmet need. Martinez’s strategy: Open new “schools of choice” with sought-after curricular models, like Montessori and dual language, and set aside a share of seats for students from more prosperous neighboring school districts, who would then sit next to a mix of students from San Antonio ISD. Read Beth’s immersive profile of the San Antonio experiment.
Early Education: After New York State rolled out new standards that called for “active. Joyful engagement” in its early-learner classrooms. Watertown City School District introduced a play-based curriculum that it will expand through third grade. Researchers have known for a while that playtime shouldn’t stop when children enter the classroom. In fact, it’s critical to the cognitive development of elementary-aged students by building better thinkers. Collaborators, and creators. And child-directed learning has been shown to deliver significant academic gains. According to a study of three preschool programs in Washington, D.C. Students who had been in a formal.
Traditional academic environment during preschool earned lower grades after several years of schooling. Than their peers who had been in preschools where active. Child-initiated learning was more common, the study found. While play-based learning can still be a tough sell as schools face the pressures of standards. And teacher training. Kate Stringer reports on why some district leaders. And researchers are hopeful that the pendulum is finally making. Its way back toward play for a school’s youngest learners.
School Safety: All year at The 74, senior writer Mark Keierleber has been tracking injuries on school campuses caused by gunfire. You can see the running tally of incidents right here at our 2018 School Shooting Series. Earlier this week. Mark offered his final recap of the 12-month effort. Over the course of the year. Firearm incidents took the lives of at least 49 people. And injured at least 88 others. Reaction to school shootings reached a fever pitch in 2018. Prompting an unprecedented response from lawmakers. School officials and students who said they had had enough. But school shootings are statistically rare. So why do they successfully drive the policy debate surrounding American gun violence and school safety?
Standards: Across the country, high school graduation rates have soared to levels never before seen. But even while millions more seniors have crossed the graduation stage over the last decade. Fears have grown that many are being waived through without truly being prepared for college or the workforce. Now a study from the Center for American Progress shows that just four states. Louisiana, Michigan, South Dakota, and Tennessee — align high school graduation requirements with entrance eligibility for public colleges. That means that millions of students are finishing high school every year without realizing. That they need additional course credits in math, science. And foreign languages before they can enroll in their state university systems. Many will begin college in remedial classes — a virtual guarantee that they won’t earn a college degree on time. Kevin Mahnken surveys the surprising findings.
Resilience: Even the scientists at MIT admit. There’s no computer as powerful as the brain of a baby. That’s why one graduate student decided to conduct an experiment to discover more about how babies learn. Specifically skills like grit and resilience and growth mindset. Turns out, the power of observation is profound at even the youngest ages. After watching adults struggle with a task before ultimately succeeding. Babies demonstrated similarly resilient skills during playtime. Kate Stringer has more on the study, its findings. And what other experts in child development say about the findings. Here’s how adults can teach grit to kids as young as 13 months.
Student Discipline: When 15-year-old Matthew McCree was stabbed to death at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in September 2017. It was the first killing in a New York City school in decades. The incident initially received substantial media coverage. Focusing particularly on homophobia and unaddressed bullying at the Bronx school. Abel Cedeno, 18, facing manslaughter charges in the case. Said he was tormented and threatened because of his sexuality. But those close to McCree say there is more to the story.
Eight of his teachers and six of his friends spoke to 74 contributor Max Eden. Who has become well known nationally as a critic of restorative justice discipline practices. Those inside UA Wildlife told Eden that after edicts came down to reduce suspensions. And administrators responded to a rising tide of disorder. And violence by sweeping the evidence under the rug.” If school leaders had “prioritized student safety over statistics. McCree’s teachers believe, he would still be alive. And they fear that the dynamics that destroyed UA Wildlife are playing out across New York City.”
Future of Work: You’ve probably heard of Future Farmers of America or Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. But you probably didn’t know that they don’t go by those names anymore. FFA and SkillsUSA, as they’re now called, are Career. And Technical Student Organizations, two of 11 federally funded co-curricular programs that have been around since the mid-1900s. But have evolved to meet the needs of the 21st-century students they serve.
While the majority of students in the 1960s could enter the middle class with no more than a high school diploma. Now, the majority of good jobs belong to those with a bachelor’s degree. To survive, CTSOs, as they’re called, have also had to adapt. And now boast of preparing students for a large swath of soft skills, including leadership, collaboration and communication. Kate Stringer spoke with some former students around the country. Who have participated in these new and improved CTSOs to see how they influenced their career trajectories.