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

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Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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

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The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. It’s been up and down, too, for many others involved with Cleveland’s school system, who are on edge about what comes next. Still, the research on these efforts is mixed.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. She pointed out that the legislation was passed quickly and without a lot of accountability, leaving a lot of the details to be figured out later.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

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An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Do we really want that to be the case?

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

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But a troubled school system is nothing new in a state that has long failed to provide all of its children with an equal, integrated education. Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. He had some hope that the two systems would come together.”. Photo: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

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More than half the country’s public school districts need to update or replace multiple building systems or features, according to a 2020 estimate by the U.S. estimates that about 36,000 schools nationwide need to update or replace their HVAC systems. Government Accountability Office. Credit: Young Kim for The Hechinger Report.

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