A critical question for states and local communities is how do we create viable career pathways for students from urban underserved and rural communities? When I began my doctoral journey at Northeastern University, I decided to focus my research on this issue because traveling the back roads of South Carolina.....… READ MORE
Read MoreIn this edCircuit video column, cross-published as a special episode of Future of School: The Podcast, Amy Valentine gives commentary on a newly released survey from the National Parents Union that received coverage from The 74. In the survey, 6 in 10 parents indicated they’d like to see schools offer expanded remote learning options, even once pandemic-related restrictions have ended....… READ MORE
Read MoreAmy Valentine, Leader at Future of School has been called a social rabble rouser, a turnaround strategist and a fighter of the status quo in K-12 education. She has served as a teacher, school leader and executive director...… READ MORE
Read MoreFuture of School (FoS) today announced that ChanceLight Education, a leading provider of education solutions for children and young adults, has joined as a founding partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP). The RSP, a partnership between FoS and the Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC), is an initiative to assist schools..… READ MORE
Read MoreCHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - All four school districts in the Tri-county area are participating in a national project to make classrooms more resilient in times of crisis.
“It’s almost as if it took something of this scale to show our country what the challenges and struggles are and why it is so hard,” Future of School CEO Amy Valentine said. “There are a lot of things that stand in the way and are impediments to schools changing.”...… READ MORE
Read MoreFuture of School (FoS) and the Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC), two national organizations leading the way toward effective district transformation, today announced the Resilient Schools Project (RSP). The RSP, a partnership between these two organizations, is an initiative to assist schools and districts with developing an ongoing response to instruction disruptions during the 2020-21 school year..… READ MORE
Read MoreBy: Amy Valentine
In the second half of the 2019-2020 school year, the American educational system underwent its most remarkable phase in history, forcing itself through a near-total shutdown of in-person learning and navigating midstream to an unanticipated, extended stretch of schooling from home before entering this summer’s intense discussion around reopening and future functioning.… READ MORE
Read MoreDenver, CO – August 12, 2020
Future of School (FoS), a national public charity focused on access to quality public education, today announced its 2020 Student Scholarship Program (SSP) winners. High school graduates from 23 states were awarded this competitive scholarship of up to $10,000 each. The financial award will… READ MORE
Read MoreBy Dian Schaffhauser
Don't refer to the instruction delivered in the spring as "online education." Better to call it "crisis teaching." Nearly the entire American education system had to move online with "little to no preparation." Nobody was fully prepared, not the educators, the parents or the students. That was the description given to… READ MORE
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