Events & Reading

[Veronica Gonzales]

Last update before the weekend officially starts! See upcoming events and reading recommendations below.

Upcoming events

Thursday, June 20, 2019:

Live Stream: What Teachers Think: Results from a New Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) hosted by FutureEd and OECD. Participants: Mayme Hostetter, president, Relay Graduate School of Education; Kate Walsh, president, National Council on Teacher Quality; Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers; Joanne Weiss, chief of staff, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Thomas Toch, director, FutureEd; and Andreas Schleicher, directorate for education and skills, OECD. Time and Location: 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m., Georgetown University Law Center, Hart Auditorium, 600 New Jersey Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. Contact: RSVP for the event or livestream here.

Webinar: How Advance Placement Courses Fit within CTE Programs. The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) will host a webinar to discuss how state leaders can place students on pathways that prepare them for college and career. Participants: Alyssa Chudnofsky, director of K-12 policy, College Board; and Allison Danielsen, product lead for career readiness and access to opportunity, College Board. Time: 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Contact: RSVP here.

Interesting reading: 

Google, in partnership with the National 4-H Council, launched a $6 million initiative to bring free computer science education to over 1 million young people through the 4-H Computer Science (CS) Career Pathway program. 

Salesforce’s philanthropy uses competition to address inequality in STEM with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released The Condition of Education 2019, a congressionally mandated report that presents 48 indicators under four areas: pre-primary, elementary, and secondary education; postsecondary education; population characteristics and economic outcomes; and international comparisons.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a new report called Monitoring Educational Equity that calls for a centralized, consistently reported system of indicators of educational equity to bring attention to disparities in the U.S. education system.