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Report: Student Interest in Pursuing Careers in Education on the Decline, But Enrollment in Intro Teaching Courses Rises

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Despite decreasing interest for working in education, enrollment trends for the two states’ high school introductory teaching courses complicated the story. According to the report, enrollment in Tennessee’s Teaching as a Profession courses has been on the rise from 2018 to 2022, alongside the number of schools offering such courses.

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Georgia State Prep Program Seeks to Retain Local Teachers

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Georgia State University has launched a teacher prep and retention program to help ensure students in metro Atlanta school districts receive stable, qualified classroom instruction. The program is made possible by funding from Georgia State, the four partner school districts, federal- and state-level TEACH Grants and The Goizueta Foundation.

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Rider University Partners with School District for Teacher Pathway Program for Support Staff

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The Pathways to Teaching program will give eligible West Windsor-Plainsboro Service Association (WWPSA) employees tuition assistance to complete a bachelor’s degree and/or a teaching certificate. Such employees include instructional assistants, cafeteria aides, custodians, bus drivers, secretaries, and other support staff.

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. What better place than Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. Dr. Donna Y.

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Children are facing potentially permanent learning loss. But additional instructional time alone won’t help.

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But additional instructional time alone won’t help. There are many strategies district leaders have used to combat learning loss that focus on building more instructional time, like extending the school year and encouraging summer prep classes. What district leaders need to focus on now is the quality and efficacy of that instruction.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

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The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. AI also has institutional implications.

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Combating the Illusion of DEI Collusion

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Why would an institution boast that “46% of this year’s incoming class are students of color” and shun its process to ensure that faculty can attest to their capacity to teach them? No amount of disciplinary knowledge will nullify the adverse impact of not learning to teach it to others.