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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a chilly Wednesday in April at the end of his last-ever quarterly meeting with the district’s parent advisory committee. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. He takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Creative Re-Purposing and Partnering.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

The Hechinger Report

When I went to meet with him, he helped me with studying, with finding more resources and with stress management,” said Shields, 23, a psychology major. From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent.

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

The Hechinger Report

While the state’s Department of Education cycled through commissioners (six in six years) superintendents struggled to figure out the law, largely on their own. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Imported from Alaska.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. When our kids came out of a meeting with those other kids, we saw a light in them we had never seen,” Eschman said. “We

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

I was a little taken aback,” said Sims, who went on to found The Abecedarian Group, a child care and education consulting agency. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. Wow, I couldn’t find any of them.”

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