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Spotlight: How One Teacher Taught Digital Citizenship Via Student-driven Websites

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here’s her story: Beyond Expectations. Suddenly, they, as a unison group blurted out, “What website can we develop?” I gave them choices regarding the website application and they decided upon Weebly since it is a drag and drop website builder and that my 7 th graders already experienced success!

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

He said the school’s transition is still in progress, but the district has been fairly successful in its adoption of the proficiency-based model. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

The Hechinger Report

It’s allowed me to focus more on my schoolwork. Mary Ann Coughlin, associate vice president for academic affairs, Springfield College. Related: Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25. Instead, she has worked 12 hours a week at internships connected to her career interests.

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Massachusetts once had the best state test in the country. Will it again?

The Hechinger Report

—As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. For a deeper check of reading comprehension, students might be required to drag and drop events in a story in the correct order.

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The Fairfax group, and its neighboring chapter in Arlington, Virginia, are among a growing number of NAACP organizations that have in recent years turned their attention to how reading is taught in school. That changed in the summer of 2020. Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post.

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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in NBC News. Retired teachers, a group districts often tap for help, have opted not to sub and risk exposure to the virus, while parents who seek substitute jobs for part-time income have stayed home to supervise children learning online. Emma García, Economic Policy Institute. I don’t think so.”.

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Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

The Hechinger Report

We have taken meaningful steps to focus our outreach and enrollment efforts on families that are traditionally considered educationally disadvantaged. Roi Johnson, longtime pastor of New Springfield Baptist Church in the small town of Siloam, says he stood up and declared, “What you’re doing is resegregating the schools intentionally.”.

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