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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? 2 What is the best age to introduce keyboarding? But when does that happen?

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State of School Safety Report Reveals 30% Gap between Parents and Administrators on Perception of School Safety

eSchool News

NEWTOWN, CT – July 13, 2021 – A report developed by Safe and Sound Schools and Raptor Technologies, based on a nationwide survey of school district administrators, public safety staff, teachers, parents, and students, has identified significant gaps in attitudes about school safety. About Safe and Sound Schools.

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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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How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

The Hechinger Report

As the calendar flips to a new year, we had reporters sit down with students in four cities to give us their predictions of and aspirations for the future. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon. Patterson Elementary School in Hillsboro, Oregon where they are fifth graders. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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PROOF POINTS: New answers to old questions about special education

The Hechinger Report

A group of economists found a clever way around this problem by studying 24,000 elementary and middle school students who were diagnosed with a specific learning disability from 2006 to 2012 in New York City, the largest school district in the country. This is not the first study to attempt to calculate the benefit of special education.

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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

The Hechinger Report

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. Both programs aim to make students fully bilingual. Both feature instruction in two languages. Photo: Tara García Mathewson. “I

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