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Public Health Preparedness
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Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 9, 2021
This weekly recap focuses declining trust in the CDC, insights from educators about teaching students with disabilities, Russian mercenaries, and more.
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Teacher Incentives
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What Factors Affecting Retention Matter Most to Teachers?
Hui Lu, Peter Burge
Apr 5, 2021
Schools Week
Maintaining an adequate supply of teachers is a challenge and an area of significant concern. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, a set of interventions developed to target the preferences and expectations of specific groups of teachers is likely to be most effective.
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Teacher Training
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Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help
Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner, Laura Stelitano
Mar 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
For thousands of teachers across the United States, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. Many lacked access to their usual professional learning activities. Summer programs for students that also offer learning opportunities for teachers might help make up for lost time.
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Education Curriculum
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The Overlooked Support Teachers Are Missing: A Coherent Curriculum
Morgan Polikoff, Elaine Lin Wang, Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Mar 3, 2021
Education Week
America is still too far off from the classrooms envisioned by standards advocates, and it will take sustained effort from educational leaders to reach these ambitious goals. States and districts could prioritize efforts to support teachers to understand and implement standards both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Teachers and Teaching
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Teachers Quit Due to Stress, Peace in Yemen, America's Middle Class: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 26, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how stress leads teachers to quit their jobs, U.S. strategy in the Middle East, America's shrinking middle class, and more.
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Civic Education
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Giving Teachers the Tools They Need to Provide 21st-Century Civics Education
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Feb 23, 2021
The RAND Blog
The Capitol attack has rightfully led to many calls for teachers to address civic education in a much more robust way in their classrooms. However, a national survey of social studies teachers suggests that teachers lack the critical training and incentives to do so.
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Education Curriculum
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Choosing Classroom Materials Is Complicated. Here's What Principals and District Leaders Can Do to Support Teachers
Elaine Lin Wang, Andrea Prado Tuma @PradoTuma, Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Feb 12, 2021
The 74
What do teachers want when it comes to instructional materials, particularly during the pandemic? Knowing the answer to this question can help district and school leaders select online materials that teachers are more likely to use and guide curriculum developers to create resources with these features in mind.
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Educational Technology
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School District Leaders Indicate Online Instruction Will Outlast COVID-19. Here's What to Consider
Heather L. Schwartz, Paul T. Hill
Jan 27, 2021
The 74
Remote K–12 learning at scale is an unprecedented challenge for everyone involved. It can and would improve dramatically if educators, government, and philanthropy treated it as a work in progress, featuring evidence-based development of quality online curricula, continuous improvement, and engagement of teachers.
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Students
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Unpacking COVID-19's Long-Term Effects on Students
Jonathan Schweig, Andrew McEachin, Megan Kuhfeld
Dec 29, 2020
The RAND Blog
The pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. It may take years to understand how COVID-19 affected student learning and social and emotional development and to identify any lasting effects on low-income communities and communities of color.
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Vaccination
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A Case for Vaccinating Teachers First
Aaron Strong, Jonathan William Welburn @jwwelburn
Dec 19, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
Most agree that America's 18 million health care workers should top the list for COVID-19 vaccination. The 3.3 million teachers should come next. Vaccinating teachers could make it possible to open schools permanently and get parents back to work. That would help the economy recover.
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Civic Education
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Want to Rebuild Public Trust? Focus on Civic Education
Dec 8, 2020
Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in American public life—has led to political paralysis, the erosion of civil discourse, and widespread uncertainty. Investing in civic education and media literacy could be the antidote. But what exactly can be done to spur a civics revival in U.S. schools?
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Politics and Government
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Restoring Public Trust, COVID-19 and Thanksgiving, Vaccinating Teachers: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 26, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on how the Biden-Harris administration can restore public trust, the risk of Thanksgiving becoming a super-spreader event, why teachers should be among the first to get a COVID19 vaccination, and more.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Schools and COVID-19, Health Care Resources, Leaving Afghanistan: RAND Weekly Recap
Nov 20, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on allocating scarce but lifesaving resources during a pandemic, insights from America’s educators, the lopsided telework revolution, and more.
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Civic Education
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The Importance of Teaching Civic Responsibility in America
Oct 29, 2020
A survey of civics and social studies teachers asked what they teach, how they teach it, and what they think students need to know. Most said their students absolutely need to learn to be tolerant of different people and groups. And they want their students to see themselves as global citizens.
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Social and Emotional Learning
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Learning from School Leaders About SEL During a Time of Crisis
Laura S. Hamilton, Kai Fierle-Hedrick
Sep 4, 2020
The RAND Blog
It would be easy for social and emotional learning to fall by the wayside as school leaders work to address students' health, safety, and learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers and funders should take seriously the perspectives and concerns that school leaders have shared.
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Educational Software
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What Do Teachers Want to See in Automated Writing Evaluation Systems?
Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Elaine Lin Wang, Richard Correnti, Diane Litman
Jul 28, 2020
eSchool News
Automated writing evaluation systems offer a promising approach to relieving the burden of giving formative feedback to students on their writing. What do teachers want to see in these systems so that the technology can be integrated into their teaching?
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Teachers and Teaching

Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

What Factors Affecting Retention Matter Most to Teachers?

Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help

The Overlooked Support Teachers Are Missing: A Coherent Curriculum

Teachers Quit Due to Stress, Peace in Yemen, America's Middle Class: RAND Weekly Recap

Giving Teachers the Tools They Need to Provide 21st-Century Civics Education

Choosing Classroom Materials Is Complicated. Here's What Principals and District Leaders Can Do to Support Teachers

School District Leaders Indicate Online Instruction Will Outlast COVID-19. Here's What to Consider

Unpacking COVID-19's Long-Term Effects on Students

A Case for Vaccinating Teachers First

Want to Rebuild Public Trust? Focus on Civic Education

Restoring Public Trust, COVID-19 and Thanksgiving, Vaccinating Teachers: RAND Weekly Recap

Schools and COVID-19, Health Care Resources, Leaving Afghanistan: RAND Weekly Recap

The Importance of Teaching Civic Responsibility in America

Learning from School Leaders About SEL During a Time of Crisis

What Do Teachers Want to See in Automated Writing Evaluation Systems?

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