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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Lesson study is used in the majority of elementary schools and middle schools in Japan but is rare in high schools ( Yoshida, 2002 ).

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How Being Part of a ‘House’ Within a School Helps Students Gain A Sense of Belonging

MindShift

The attachments formed tend to be so significant that alumni, upon meeting one another, frequently ask, “What college were you?”. We have first-graders on our campus that would never have the opportunity to become buddies with a fifth-grader,” Hayes said, “but now they see each other at the house meeting every Friday.”

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

According its January 2017 report, the FCC’s modernization push enabled some 77% of school districts to meet the minimum federal connectivity targets by the end of 2016; just 30% had met those requirements in 2013. The Supreme Court also found the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1998 unconstitutional in 2002.

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