Opinion: Direct education grants can give families and children choices for getting extra help
November 29, 2022
By Craig Hulse, yes. every kid., and Derrell Bradford, 50CAN The nation’s families recently received another clear message that our education system is not serving all students. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “nation’s report card,” last month revealed the extent of the learning decline during the pandemic. It’s time for students to get the help they need. And families have never been hungrier for more options to make that possible. Read more at HechingerReport.org.
Families & Kids Have Been Flexible with Every COVID Curveball. Schools Haven’t Been Nearly as Nimble. Time to Start Funding Families & Students Directly
January 26, 2022
By Craig Hulse and Derrell BradfordThe 74 The COVID-19 pandemic, which began as a shock to our lives in 2020 and continues to affect everything we do as a nation, changed the fabric and rituals of daily life across this country. Nowhere is this more true than among K-12 students, millions of whom endured a year or more of closed or sporadically open schools, poorly implemented virtual learning, social isolation, and lost educational and extracurricular opportunities. It was not supposed to be this way. Among numerous bipartisan federal aid packages, Congress provided hundreds of billions of dollars to the nation’s…
“School Within a School” Program Aims to Help Disengaged Students Find Success
February 28, 2020
Re-imagining public education means looking at traditional structures and replacing them with innovative methods and practices that are more direct and intimate for the student. Take the Star Academy, a nationally-recognized effort designed to help at-risk students succeed. Based in LaPlace, Louisiana, the Star Academy is a subsidiary of NOLA Education. Its methodologies include establishing a “school within a school” and showing students that they can be successful by having a stronger relationship with their instructor. The program targets students who have failed at least one grade, a vulnerable population since the organization’s research shows that 64 percent of them…
