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Declining teacher retention rates within the Providence Public School District over the last three years since the state takeover and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic are not as drastic as what various news reports suggested during that time, according to a new study released Tuesday by Brown University’s Annenberg Institute.
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Brown University's Department of Education has partnered with AmeriCorps to offer a year-long, full-time volunteer service position. The team member will build capacity for projects that mobilize higher education to make a difference in the lives of individuals impacted by poverty.
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Brookings' Brown Center Chalkboard Blog

Better teacher feedback can happen outside of the evaluation process

Professor Matthew Kraft argues that formative observation and feedback cycles could be more successful at driving instructional improvement if implemented outside of the high-stakes teacher evaluation process.
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Student Spotlight: Mamadou Fofana, MAT'22

Meet Mamadou Fofana, MAT'22, a future social studies/history teacher who enjoys Rhode Island beaches, creating music, and drawing upon his undergraduate experience as an African American studies concentrator when at the front of the classroom.
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Andrea Flores, Assistant Professor of Education, and her colleagues at Brown University and UConn have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to address the impact of COVID-19 on first-generation college students and their families in the U.S.
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As a growing number of state and federal authorities pledge to make high-quality tutoring available to struggling students, a new study co-authored by Professor Matthew Kraft demonstrates positive, if modest, results from an experimental pilot that launched last spring. 
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An Academic Theory Goes Unexpectedly Viral

Brown scholars Jonathan Collins, Mahasan Chaney, and Lynne Joyrich on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education.
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Student Spotlight: Ayana Bass, UEP A.M.'22

Meet Ayana Bass, a Rhode Island native who joined the UEP program so that she could learn critical skills to make a long-term impact in advancing teacher diversity and educational equity.
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Starting in 2009, the U.S. public education system undertook a massive effort to institute new high-stakes teacher evaluation systems. A new working paper examines the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation across states.
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A study co-authored by Professor Susanna Loeb combines an analysis of national administrative data to describe the paraeducator labor market with a systematic review of collective bargaining agreements and other job-defining documents in ten case-study districts.
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Student Spotlight: Lauren Zeffer, MAT'22

Lauren Zeffer MAT'22, a future biology teacher, shares what drew her to Brown University's program and what her experience has been like so far.
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The Board of Overseers of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University established the permanent annual scholarship in 2012 for a UEP student who most epitomizes the former Brown University president’s commitment to educational equity and social justice.
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On the Tennessee Voices podcast, Professor Andrea Flores discusses education as the front lines of belonging and her book, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America," which was written based on a decade of research and interviews she conducted in Nashville.
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BSHS 2021: From Superheroes to Climate Justice

Brown Summer High School (BSHS) challenges students to think deeply about big questions. In this summer enrichment program, students pursue deep learning in up to three courses, choosing from classes in Math, English, Science, and Social Studies.
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Chartered by US Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice, the Academy is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 to assist government leaders in building more effective, efficient, accountable, and transparent organizations.
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Brown University’s Department of Education seeks to hire a full-time lecturer with expertise in language acquisition, bilingual education, and/or teaching Multilingual Learners to join a faculty committed to addressing social equity issues within the context of urban schools.
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Brown University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISI) collaborates with a number of departments across the campus to offer fellowships to students pursuing Master’s degrees. NAISI is dedicated to increasing the understanding and maintenance of the cultural traditions and political experiences of Native American and Indigenous Peoples.
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In this thought experiment, Professor Matthew Kraft and Grace Falken, a research program associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, explore how to make access to individualized instruction and academic mentoring more equitable by taking tutoring to scale as a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system.
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