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Why Use SplashLearn in Class?

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Age Group and Subjects: Parents: SplashLearn offers Math and Reading curriculum from PreK through Grade 5 for parents. Detailed Reports : Detailed reports provide insights into your child’s activities and achievements, outline mastered skills, and recommend future learning steps. You can get started here !

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New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

The Hechinger Report

A new report says the state of Pennsylvania ought to be doing more to oversee such facilities serving foster and delinquent children. Photo: Caroline Preston for The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. But the report released today suggests that many of these foster children are attending on-grounds schools in lieu of public schools.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We It’s made me realize how a small group can do such big things.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”.

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What an Admissions Fight at America’s ‘Best’ High School Says About Educational Equity

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News and World Report ranking of public high schools. While about 27 percent of the district is Hispanic and 10 percent is Black, each group makes up just 2 percent of the student body at TJ. But one school just outside of Washington, D.C., And that's just one example of how extraordinary this school is.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

The Hechinger Report

In 1993, Massachusetts enacted a bipartisan education reform law that gave schools a massive infusion of state money in return for high academic standards and accountability. Academic standards were the next to go. State-by-state NAEP comparisons are available in this Hechinger Report table.)

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

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Murphy, the co-founder and CEO, has made that message clear to at least one group of people. Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For Today the Chicago-based company has raised $10.1 For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?)

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

So we—a small group of researchers and educators—decided to collaboratively design our own solution to support teacher-leaders in Appalachian Kentucky. We also wanted to center each districts’ CS mission and vision and integrate the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Computer Science and the KAS for Technology.

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