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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

If we can’t effectively support our educators then expecting them to reverse the concerning trends of high school dropouts (more than ¼ fail to graduate H.S.), Appreciating that volition, engagement, and teaching excellent are all tied together, creating essential guidelines for every school’s planning for PD.

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How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

The Hechinger Report

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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When Schools Take Safety Too Far: The Origins of Zero-Tolerance Discipline

MindShift

Most teachers, principals and even students will say a well-run classroom is crucial for learning to take place. Over and over the data shows racial bias in the country’s classrooms has lead to lost instructional time, dropouts and often incarceration. Studies find implicit bias in teachers of even the youngest students.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

In November, the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, which serves as a hub for the programs, launched a working group tasked in part with editing the guidelines for starting recovery programs to make them more applicable to community colleges. “I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put school discipline back on the table by telling reporters she is “looking closely” at whether to change the 2014 federal guidance, which some conservative critics have blamed for sowing “ classroom chaos.” Some teachers say the changes happened too quickly and that classroom discipline has suffered.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

Edsurge

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

One university official said on background that, generally speaking, program staff at any university have to follow federal and state guidelines, as well as standards for who qualifies for the resources. That way, she said, they can be the ones making laws and the ones teaching their history in the classroom.

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