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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

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A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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How One District Went All-in on a Tutoring Program to Catch Kids Up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes.

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

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Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

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The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, first enacted in 1987 and expanded in 2001, requires that districts take specific actions to help unstably housed students complete school. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. They navigated college admissions alone.

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Want to help public education thrive in 2017? Support The Hechinger Report!

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If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. Trump and Betsy DeVos are examples of why a free press is needed now more than ever. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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