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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

We recommend keeping ample time for recess in school, as well as carving out time for kids to have more choice in activities in the classroom so they are able to use their imagination, build and make things, interact with others, and have some ownership over what and how they are learning. 2013; National Sleep Foundation, 2006).

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

Over the last few years of the Speak Up survey, more students and administrators have signaled the importance of being able to access mobile devices in the classroom, whether through Bring Your Own Device policy consideration and implementation or through school-provided technology. Interest among students continues to grow.

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What do preschool teachers need to do a better job?

The Hechinger Report

Faced with too many choices for outfitting their classrooms, teachers at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn bought several kinds of blocks. And all of them are advertised as the best possible blocks for outfitting a preschool classroom. The kids, who are now given much more free time to do things like play with blocks, like them all.

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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 ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution.

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