The Education Policy Hotlist
Top News in U.S. Education Policy for the Week of January 9th
THE WEEKS AHEAD
Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 12:30 PM ET, join The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading for Transforming the Early Literacy Landscape Using Collective Learning With 313Reads [Register now].
Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 2:00 PM ET, join The Hunt Institute for Navigating Education Policy in 2023 and Beyond [Register now].
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Student achievement improves in some Alabama districts, and school leaders reflect on how they focused on self-reflection and change [AL].
A new New York commission will recommend new graduation requirements in spring 2024 [Chalkbeat].
John Bailey breaks down quarantines' role in learning delays [The74].
A global policy tension emerges between affirming practices to teach the mother tongue and national policies to maintain an “English medium” in schools [Brookings].
FEDERAL EDUCATION POLICY
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights received twice as many discrimination complaints this year as last [NYT].
The newly signed 2023 spending bill includes $3.2 billion in education funding increases [Congress].
CHATGPT
Robin Lake gives her 2023 address and shares how ChatGPT can help us rethink reinventing public education [CRPE].
Mark Schneider makes the case that when humans may be obsolete, we must do more to harness innovation and not let it take us over [IES].
Some, including myself, think it’s important not to ban artificial intelligence but use it to help students improve their critical thinking and writing skills [EdWeek].
TEACHER WORKFORCE
The federal government’s apprenticeship program is 85 years old, but teaching was only added in 2021. Now, a network of 14 states is pooling their intellectual capital to spearhead this new initiative to build their teacher workforce [The74].
ENROLLMENT
The feds project enrollment will continue to decline through this decade, reaching 47.3 million by 2030 [Axios].
POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
Twelve of the 17 community colleges in Oregon are leveraging state grant funds to cover student tuition and fees [OR].
FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDING
Georgia is braiding two federal investment packages to fund student broadband access [GA].
IN SESSION
This week, the following state legislatures kick off their sessions:
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Pacific University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Education & Leadership [Pacific].
ICYMI
Bellwether hosted a webinar about how to help families navigate learning options after Covid-19 [Bellwether].
Dr. Christine M. T. Pitts serves as Director of Impact and Communications at the Center on Reinventing ic Education, overseeing policy leadership and external affairs. A teacher and researcher by training, she previously led research and evaluation for Portland Public Schools. She served as Policy Advisor at NWEA, overseeing state and federal policy to advance equity and innovation in educational assessment. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @cmtpitts.