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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001. The four partners are: Anna High School in Anna, Ohio, partnered with VHS Learning (then known as “Virtual High School”) in 1998. The school is in a rural area and serves more than 350 students.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Yet, there is hope: over 96% of elementary school teachers view culturally responsive teaching as important when working with diverse students.[7] Picture books for early elementary students: Drawn Together by Minh Lê, illustrated by Dan Santat. Intercultural Education, 2001, 12(1), pp. Hosea Plays On by Kathleen M. Siwatu, K.O.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Connect: www.naesp.org , @NAESP.

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Senate to tackle NCLB update

eSchool News

A proposed update to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) would strengthen state and local control and end federal test-based accountability. Education Committee will begin reviewing details of a plan to update NCLB. Written by committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.),

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Act now: Important IAL funding news from the DOE!

NeverEndingSearch

Program Authority: Sections 5411-5413 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001; title III of Division H of Public Law 114-113 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016. Show citation box.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online From Educators Doing It Now

edWeb.net

Setting the Course for Secondary Students. Data use is another key aspect of teaching secondary students online, as it shows what is working and what needs to be changed. Olivia Miller is a 2nd grade teacher at South Ripley Elementary School in Versailles, IN.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Black and brown students are becoming more concentrated in low-income schools.