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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

I believe that all classes, regardless of grade level including through graduate school, should begin with focusing on having the students make connections between themselves and the educator; and between one another. I want students to learn about one another in a personal way. 2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al.,

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

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51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? Can you tell us about your education background? Inkeri, you’ve been teaching for 15 years.

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Who Does School Reform Serve?

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For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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Meet the Support Network Addressing Out-Of-School Challenges for Every Student

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Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. And she meets with groups of students during their usual lunch breaks. ROXBURY, Mass. The idea is to make sure no one is falling through the cracks.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

Education researchers call it “high-dosage” tutoring and it has produced big achievement gains for students in studies when the tutoring occurs every day or almost every day. Called “Math Lab,” it was run by an outside tutoring organization, Saga Education. The daily 45-minute period was largely spent doing practice problems together.

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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

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Dr. Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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