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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? This conclusion was reinforced by Feutz (2001). But when does that happen?

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. In the schools without art, 14.5

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. Tutoring programs for elementary school children rise to the top within this body of research, which was conducted well before the pandemic and targeted to students who were considerably behind grade level. But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions. First, the numbers.

Survey 137
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10 Reasons Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important for Early Literacy Development

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The benefits of PA instruction, according to the report, weren’t limited to a specific demographic; they spanned across various groups including normally developing readers, at-risk readers, disabled readers, and children from different socioeconomic backgrounds and grade levels. Schuster, B. Yaghoub-Zadeh, Z., & Shanahan, T.

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

The Hechinger Report

These boys racked up more arrests and days behind bars when more of their elementary school classmates left. A 2018 report by The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School pointed out the “ Paradox of Choice.” Charlotte introduced public school choice a few years after busing ended in 2001. But that hasn’t been proven.

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The science of catching up

The Hechinger Report

A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.

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