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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. Scholastic Instructor, May 2005, 114(8), pp. Principal Journal, January 2001, 80(3), pp. Limiting the Academic Summer Slide for Urban Elementary School Students. Lundstrom, M.

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PROOF POINTS: Criminal behavior rises among those left behind by school lotteries

The Hechinger Report

Three university economists studied the criminal justice records of 10,000 boys who were in fifth grade between 2005 and 2008. These boys racked up more arrests and days behind bars when more of their elementary school classmates left. Charlotte introduced public school choice a few years after busing ended in 2001.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. In 2001 I had a one-to-one classroom with Palm Pilots, and in 2005 I started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school. In 2001 I had a one-to-one classroom with Palm Pilots, and in 2005 I started one of the first podcasts from an elementary school.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Aggregated over the past 13 years — the length of a child’s elementary and secondary school career — Congress has failed to appropriate $347 billion towards the education of low income students, primarily Black and Brown. But why exactly are parents paying for paper and pencils?

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Shaping K-12 Learning Experiences with Online Mapping Activities

edWeb.net

Elementary students can participate with activities that track and map noise levels across schools, or predict and study migration patterns of animals. Mike has been teaching GIS as a project-based course since 2005, as part of the Virginia Geospatial Semester, a dual enrollment program. Join the Community.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.