The children of millennials. Generation Alpha celebrated its first birthday in 2011.

Put simply, a concern with ensuring that all students are given an equal chance to succeed. That means that even a child from a lower socio-economic status or a child whose first language is not English or a child from a minoritized community is given the same opportunities to develop

Requires that websites, edtech apps, and other digital vendors protect the privacy of children 13 years old and younger. Personal data must be masked and cannot be harvested for sale to other companies or vendors.

Starts, as the name, suggests, with a problem. In this model, students are presented with an open-ended problem. Students must search through a variety of resources, called trigger material, to help them understand the problem from all angles. In problem-based learning, there is no one right answer to the problem.

The act of moving a student to the next grade level, even though they have not mastered the curriculum of their current grade level. It allows their promotion regardless, always in spite of a common and reasonable concern that this approach places already struggling students at risk of future failure,

Practices that foster academic growth in students across socioeconomic and cultural boundaries. None of these practices involve hands-on classroom interventions on the part of administrators, but all foster a structured environment that’s focused on student learning – a school culture of learning.

Represents the percentage of youth, ages 16-24, who are not currently enrolled in school and have not received a GED or high school credential.

A restorative justice approach that rehabilitates offenders through reconciliation with victims and the community at large can go a long way towards keeping kids in class and out of the criminal justice system. This does not have to happen exclusively in classrooms all the time though. Community outreach programs that

The disparity between two assessments, as in between assessments of a child’s IQ and actual academic achievement.