This section offers information on how schools and districts are preparing students for postsecondary education and careers in a constantly evolving world.
Dr. Candace Singh, Superintendent of California’s Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) is passionate about STEM and is dedicated to providing each of her students an engaging STEM learning experience. But Dr. Singh, known as Candy to her team, quickly recognized the district needed a strong plan to bring this...
When Dr. Sonia Stewart, principal at Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School, came to Nashville from Chicago, she brought with her both the background knowledge and experience of working with community schools. So in addition to furthering the community schools strategy at Pearl-Cohn, she has helped Community Achieves (CA), the Metro...
Cuba’s education system. Resources to address race-based violence. Policies to send public money to private schools. These were the topics of the Learning First Alliance’s most viewed blog posts of 2017.
Each year we at LFA compile our most popular blog posts, determined by unique pageviews in Google Analytics. As always, in addition to covering a wide range of topics, this list reflects the contributions of a number of the leading education associations representing the local practitioners, parents and policymakers working...
Demand is growing for a strong STEM workforce. How can educators prepare today’s learners for tomorrow’s careers?
Many of the most valuable jobs of tomorrow depend on STEM education happening in today’s classrooms. The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that by 2020, there will be 1.4 million IT jobs available but only 400,000 computer science graduates with the required skills to fill the positions. Companies...
Career advising and development is an increasingly prevalent topic in policy conversations, but too often only focuses on high school-level strategies. Learners should see a clear line through their education from career awareness to exploration to planning, and this can only occur if strategies and initiatives are aligned across grade...
Today’s career and technical education (CTE) is not yesterday’s vocational education, and it’s not just for non-college goers. The National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) new report, “ Career and Technical Education: Building New Pathways into the Labor Market ,” finds that CTE provides multiple pathways into...
