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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. For example, "Please click on the hare''s blue tree house door" I gave out "smarties" for the best sentences and if they found one I didn''t know about (there are like a gajillion!) But this year I tested them and they do NOT work on ANY of my computers.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? In 2003, in a rather extraordinary move, the state Department of Education mandated that every teacher preparation program in Mississippi require two courses in early literacy to cover what was in the National Reading Panel report. Kelly Butler was alarmed.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

They don’t charge tuition, but they’ve become exclusive enclaves through other means — for example, by not providing a free or subsidized lunch or bus transportation. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M. Habari gani!”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. The Common Core. What will happen to encryption , for example?