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A school is a Village, Education as Communication
- Authored by: Cathie Maglio

Education as Communication

by Cathie Maglio The school is a village I was asked how my job as a Learning Specialist with JFYNetWorks has changed this school year, and how I have supported teachers at East Boston High School with remote and hybrid learning.

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Give Rise College and Career Readiness is Life Readiness
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JFY Helps Teachers Give Rise to Student Success

College and Career Readiness is Life Readiness JFYNetWorks closes the college readiness gap by helping young people build the skills to climb the ladder into college and on to jobs and careers. We give them the tools to do the hard work of turning their dreams into reality. That is

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Skills for the post-pandemic economy. Is college still necessary?
- Authored by: Eileen Wedegartner

Skills for the post-pandemic economy

by Eileen Wedegartner, JFYNet Learning Specialist Is college still necessary? The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many people to decide to take a year off from higher education. The ballooning price of college tuition combined with the uncertain job outlook for recent college graduates make this decision understandable. But a longer

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JFYNet Connects Learning to Goals
- Authored by: Joan Reissman

JFYNet Connects Learning to Goals

by Joan Reissman, JFY Learning Specialist Standards-based instruction includes MCAS, SAT, grade-level skills MCAS is back on the schedule for the current school year. Teachers are struggling to cope with remote and hybrid learning models, and to comprehend the impact of six months’ learning loss. JFYNet is adapting its connected

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Cracks in the Bedrock, The destabilizing effects of inequality
- Authored by: Gary Kaplan

Cracks in the Bedrock. The Destabilizing Effects of Inequality

by Gary Kaplan History doesn’t repeat itself, Mark Twain observed, but it often rhymes. Because of our peculiar history, the current calls for redirection of police funding to social programs fall with a familiar cadence at JFYNetWorks. We are often asked what JFY stands for. It stands for Jobs For

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Education and Workforce: What’s New?
- Authored by: Gary Kaplan

Education and Workforce: What’s New?

Old Year, New Year, New Decade. Same Story. by Gary Kaplan For readers of education and workforce journalism, the turn of the decade was neatly bracketed by two articles that summed up the year’s main themes: low student performance and labor shortage. First was a New York Times piece on

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A Jeffersonian Solution for a Jeffersonian Problem: Inequality
- Authored by: Gary Kaplan

A Jeffersonian Solution for a Jeffersonian Problem: Inequality

All people may be created equal, but all schools are not. by Gary Kaplan Inequality will be a pervasive topic in the new decade. It won’t be a new topic. It’s been a front page story ever since Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century came out in English in

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The Year in Review - Looking back on a busy 2018-19
- Authored by: Gary Kaplan

The Year in Review – Is Career readiness the higher standard?

Looking back on a busy 2018-19 by Gary Kaplan The end of a school year is a traditional time for reflection. This year offers a wider than usual range of events to reflect on. Education occupied an unusual amount of front page real estate. The quarter-century anniversary of Education Reform

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MCAS Prep
- Authored by: Eileen Wedegartner

MCAS 2.0 – A New but Familiar Challenge

Meet the new MCAS with confidence and success by Eileen Wedegartner, Blended Learning Specialist I started teaching in 1998. My first year I filled in for a teacher in a Boston exurb. The school was my alma mater, so English department staff took me under their wings to help me

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