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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

Edsurge

As the KIBO robot moved around the floor, flashing its lights and making different sounds, Sasha narrated their story. Michael chimes in with more detail, explaining that their robotic bus was rushing to a hotel that was closing early, so the bus driver was going very fast to get there before it closed. Credit: Tufts University.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

Students warm up in choir, one of the many extracurricular classes offered at Starkville High Photo: Nicole Lewis. Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. STARKVILLE, Miss.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. . – Amy Creeden, principal and Race to the Top lead.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. The majority of K-12 students in the U.S.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

had been poll-watching at Edgemere Grange Hall, and she had her indicator for how voters were casting their ballots: “Anyone who said, ‘Hello, good morning’” was in their camp. But Dana Douglas , a fit and forceful blonde sipping on an Americano and a water bottle boosted with electrolytes (she was teaching spin at 6 p.m.)