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Students with disabilities often left out of popular ‘dual-language’ programs

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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Discovery Inc. and Discovery Education Partner to Present Exclusive Virtual Field Trip Behind the Scenes of the Inauguration

eSchool News

This exclusive, no cost virtual learning experience provides students behind-the-scenes access to this extraordinary quadrennial event. During I Do Solemnly Swear , elementary and middle school students, their teachers, and families will learn about the many distinctive aspects of the Presidential Inauguration.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Small group work. The first four are freely available. Maker space.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. Jeff Livingston, founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics “I say, ‘Have you watched Abbott Elementary?’” So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.”

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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. The idea was met with nods by three of Chandler’s classmates as they sat discussing the future in the principal’s office of their 400-student elementary school, a red-brick structure in a suburb of Portland. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders.

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First Lady Jill Biden Welcomes Students Across America to the Nation’s Capital in Discovery Education’s City of U.S. Virtual Field Trip to Washington, D.C.

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Friday, May 14, 2021) —For many American elementary and middle school students, a field trip to Washington, D.C. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 140 countries and territories. To ensure all students can experience Washington, D.C.

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The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

The Hechinger Report

In January, EveryLibrary, a group that tracks legislation that puts school and college librarians, higher ed faculty and museum professionals at risk of criminal prosecution, identified 44 bills in 14 states as “ legislation of concern ,” for the 2024 session. What’s controversial about a book on inventions??” What does that really mean?

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