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A Few Educators 'Going the Extra Mile' Cannot Save the Education System

Edsurge

There were stories of teachers who went to every game, teachers who stayed late to tutor students without extra pay, those who made home visits or chaperoned every field trip. Many of us became educators because we want to help others, we are community-minded, we are oriented toward public service.

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Savvas Learning Company and WestEd Provide Cutting-Edge Math Screener and Diagnostic Assessments

eSchool News

Developed in partnership with WestEd — a non-profit research, development, and service agency with expertise in assessments — the new Savvas assessment tools provide a clear picture of student performance at the individual, classroom, and district levels, and offer teachers actionable data to inform instruction. About WestEd.

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These would-be teachers graduated into the pandemic. Will they stick with teaching?

The Hechinger Report

To learn more about the difficulties facing new teachers in the aftermath of the pandemic, and what’s needed to retain them, The Hechinger Report contacted a half-dozen schools of education to access lists of or data about graduates to see how many remain in the field. Many don’t get even some of that. “If

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. Administrators in Galt say recent test results support that notion. Mayerson Academy does too, but its work is frequently supported by grants. In Galt, strength terms drip from the walls, printed on flags and on signs pinned to bulletin boards. Weekly Update.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Those who disappear for good cost colleges and universities — including taxpayer-supported public ones like TAMU-Texarkana — billions of dollars in lost tuition revenue. Leave this field empty if you're human: “It was my job to get student enrolled, and if you didn’t enroll them your job could be on the line,” he said. Weekly Update.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

“Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. But has that come to pass?

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Can a school save a neighborhood?

The Hechinger Report

Administrators plan to open a center in the building that will provide health and day care services to students, their families and neighborhood residents. All of its current students reside in North Philadelphia; more than three-quarters are supported by public housing. Vaux high school was built in the 1930s.

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