Former@NC Gov&LtGov Founded DigiLearn and is Managing Education Partner @Ridge-Lane and Perdue Strategy. Ed Tech is major focus
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What If We Treated the State of Public Education Like the Crisis It Is?
I’ve spent decades in education. I’ve been a classroom teacher, a policymaker, and the governor of North Carolina. I founded an education nonprofit focused on innovation and I’m currently chairing the National Assessment Governing Board for the second time since the pandemic started. From all this, I firmly believe our nation has an educational crisis on its hands.
Analysis: Dual enrollment can help fix the high school-to-college pathway for students hit hardest by COVID-19 | LA School Report
As with all aspects of our education system, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and widened inequities in postsecondary pathways, especially for the most underserved students. According to recent data, undergraduate college enrollment rates declined by nearly 5 percent since last year across all types of postsecondary institutions.
Perdue: Dual Enrollment Can Help Fix the High School-to-College Pathway for Students Hit Hardest by COVID-19
As with all aspects of our education system, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and widened inequities in postsecondary pathways, especially for the most underserved students. According to recent data, undergraduate college enrollment rates declined by nearly 5 percent since last year across all types of postsecondary institutions.
Perspective | N.C.’s teacher learning system needs micro-credentials to move our teachers, students forward
Research shows that high-quality, effective teachers are the most important factor in determining students’ success in school. Yet schools across the nation are finding it harder and harder to attract and retain teachers. To get and keep highly skilled teachers, we must support them with an innovative system of professional learning — one that allows teachers to learn and demonstrate timely, relevant knowledge and skills that immediately help them in their classroom and their career.
A blueprint for expanding broadband in rural areas of North Carolina
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the migration of public instruction and areas of commerce online, it has also highlighted the digital divide between those who do and don’t have reliable high-speed internet. Currently, at least 14.5 million Americans, many in rural areas, lack access to high-speed internet. In North Carolina, it is estimated that 40% of homes don’t have high-speed internet, either because the areas they live in lack the infrastructure, or because they can’t afford it.
A blueprint for expanding broadband in rural areas of North Carolina
As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the migration of public instruction and areas of commerce online, it has also highlighted the digital divide between those who do and don’t have reliable high-speed internet. Currently, at least 14.5 million Americans, many in rural areas, lack access to high-speed internet. In North Carolina, it is estimated that 40% of homes don’t have high-speed internet, either because the areas they live in lack the infrastructure, or because they can’t afford it.
Now Is the Time to Deconstruct Our Education System and Transform It for Good
Bev Perdue is a former public school teacher, a former governor of North Carolina, and the founder of digiLEARN, a national nonprofit dedicated to accelerating digital learning for all ages with a goal of increasing personal learning options for students and expanding instructional opportunities for teachers.
Perspective | The more teachers learn, the better they teach. Their pay should be higher, too.
No one is more important to improve student learning than an effective teacher. And effective teachers need an innovative system of professional learning — one that includes micro-credentials. Micro-credentials are a competency-based form of certification for formal and informal professional learning experiences that support educators in developing skills and acquiring knowledge to improve their practice, all of which supports student success, according to the National Education Association (NEA).
Perdue: NAEP Scores Show We Failed Our Kids Again. It’s Time We Stop Saying We Believe in Education and Start Proving That We Do
As a nation, we are failing our students when it comes to ensuring they have a fundamental cornerstone for success in school and in life: the ability to read coherently and proficiently. The release last month of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress painted a stark picture for reading achievement in our country. Thirty-one states saw scores drop for eighth-grade reading achievement, and only Mississippi and the District of Columbia showed reading score improvements.
Today's students need more than just free college
In recent months, free college and debt forgiveness proposals have emerged as a sort of litmus test for Democratic presidential hopefuls. And with good reason -- some 45 million Americans now owe more than $1.5 trillion in student debt. According to one estimate, the class of 2017’s student borrowers owe an average of $28,650. By 2023, 40 percent of all student borrowers are expected to default on their loans.
The benefits of preschool last into adulthood - Let’s make high-quality pre-K available to all
High-quality pre-K programs are widely recognized for their positive effect on the social, emotional and academic development of young children. They develop more advanced language, pre-math and social skills, and make an easier adjustment to kindergarten. And the benefits of pre-K last into adulthood. That’s why we must provide every opportunity we can for all children to access and benefit from high-quality preschool programming.
To improve schools, listen to our teachers
We know that teachers matter more to student achievement than any other school-related factor, including services, facilities and leadership. Yet for years we’ve forced teachers to work in a broken system without including them in efforts to reform and fix it, and student achievement is suffering as a result. This decline in achievement is abundantly clear with last week’s release of the North Carolina 2017-18 school performance grades.
Commentary: Why Can’t Companies Break the Cycle of All-Male Leadership?
Despite decades of initiatives to increase diversity among corporate leaders, the percentage of female leadership hires has remained relatively stagnant. A recent report from LinkedIn and the World Economic Forum examined the representation of women in leadership roles worldwide, and found that women represent less than 50% of the leaders in every industry analyzed.
To Bring Learning into the Digital Age, We Must Empower Teachers
By Bev Perdue When you’re trying to find a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, do you pull out a folded-up map, or do you pull out your smart phone and Google it? As technology evolves, our expectation for how that technology can and should make our lives better evolves with it. While holding a paper map may bring out a sense of nostalgia, we know inherently that our phones will help us to navigate to an unknown location more quickly and efficiently.
To Bring Learning into the Digital Age, We Must Empower Teachers
By Bev Perdue When you’re trying to find a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, do you pull out a folded-up map, or do you pull out your smart phone and Google it? As technology evolves, our expectation for how that technology can and should make our lives better evolves with it. While holding a paper map may bring out a sense of nostalgia, we know inherently that our phones will help us to navigate to an unknown location more quickly and efficiently.
Perdue: Technology-Focused Professional Development Can Help America’s Teachers Bring Their Classrooms Into the 21st Century
Last week, my home state of North Carolina became the sixth state where thousands of teachers took to the streets to make their voices heard. In a right-to-work state, teachers took personal days to fight for better pay and increases to per-pupil spending, both of which are well below the national average in North Carolina. The demonstration was emotional. It was powerful.
America's Hidden Gems: Rural, Latinx and Gifted Students | RealClearEducation
Less than two decades ago, Hispanic and Latinx people accounted for 4.71 percent of North Carolina’s population. By last year, they made up nearly 10 percent. For rural areas, the increase has been even more dramatic, with rates often outpacing the national average. In towns like Robbins and Siler City, half the population is Hispanic. While growing diversity has been a boon to local economies, it has created new challenges and opportunities in schools.
Make Education Data Work for All Students
The education community seems to agree that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act corrects many flaws of the No Child Left Behind Act, while preserving what worked and presenting huge opportunities to refocus the lens on student success. As our peers in states nationwide wait for ESSA's provisions to become concrete regulations and turn their attention to implementing the law, we have some advice for them when it comes to collecting and using data: Don't just simply follow the rules on this one.
Bev Perdue: Education innovators can improve student learning
As the first decade of the 21st century closed, North Carolina's economy was on a firm foundation for growth built around finance, high tech innovation and entrepreneurial manufacturing and support.
Why We're Bad at Math: It's a Confidence Thing
It’s routine to hear an adult utter these five innocent words while doing something as simple as calculating tip at a restaurant. It’s striking that self-doubting one’s ability to succeed in math has become par for the course for both adults and young people in our country. Science, technology, engineering and math are exactly the subjects where we need our students to succeed the most.
Common Core: States need high standards - by any name - for kids to succeed
As the governor of North Carolina, I supported the adoption of higher learning standards for one simple reason: our kids need them. In a global economy, it doesn’t matter where you live but it does matter what you know, and children everywhere ought to know what other students across America and the world are learning. For too long, states kept learning standards low in order to artificially boost their test scores and mask achievement gaps.
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