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How to Prevent the Summer Slide and Help Reduce Educational Inequality

Waterford

Because at-risk students don’t always have educational resources over the summer, they are particularly vulnerable to losing knowledge gained over the school year. If possible, provide a few educational activities or resources for at-risk kids to use during the break.[6]

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SETDA Provides Tips on Equity of Access for Students Outside of School

edWeb.net

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA, noted the importance of having safe WiFi access. She suggested beginning with a clear mission statement.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

I have long been a fan of Tony Vincent and his website and resources at LearninginHand.com. A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. Tony is one of the most creative educators I know.

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OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’

The Hechinger Report

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) expanded the federal role in school oversight, calling for testing nearly all children in grades 3 through 8 annually in English Language Arts and mathematics to assess their proficiency. Related: States will soon be free to transform standardized testing, but most won’t.

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OPINION: Six decades later, Brown v. Board of Education ruling is still only an aspiration

The Hechinger Report

Students at Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., Nearly 68 years ago as a third-grader, Linda Brown was denied access to an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas. There are two ways to solve this equation: target resources to communities of concentrated poverty, or disperse concentrated poverty.

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

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Schools bring mindfulness to the classroom to help kids in the Covid-19 crisis

The Hechinger Report

In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. Coleman Elementary, hasn’t had a suspension in six years, according to the principal. Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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