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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

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So far, a 2021 study of Boston’s universal pre-K program found that students who attended the city’s preschools between 1997 and 2003 were more likely to go to college immediately after high school. About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

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When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

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President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite. Every kid will be counted, and we’ll focus on equity.”.

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What Kinds of Homework Seem to be Most Effective?

MindShift

If you made it past the headline, you’re likely a student, concerned parent, teacher or, like me, a nerd nostalgist who enjoys basking in the distant glow of Homework Triumphs Past (second-grade report on Custer’s Last Stand, nailed it!). So any comparison is, to a degree, apples-to-oranges (or, at least, apples-to-pears).

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

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Students who share racial and/or gender characteristics with their teachers tend to report higher levels of personal effort, happiness in class, feeling cared for, student-teacher communication, post-secondary motivation, and academic engagement.”. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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Emily Hanford | APM Reports. This story was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. Emily Hanford | APM Reports. Balanced literacy.

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Is Head Start a failure?

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Full disclosure, Julia Himmelstein, the art teacher in Portland, is cousins with Lillian Mongeau, the reporter of this story. For comparison, that’s still less that the $32 billion available in tuition support for disadvantaged students though the federal Pell Grant program this year. Photo: Julia Himmelstein. But the U.S.

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