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Your classroom does not have to be Pinterest-worthy: Stay reflective on the WHY & avoid comparison

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I did it already, but mine looks amateurish in comparison. Oh hey, I have a set-up similar to that…but my handwriting is atrocious, and it’s not colorful, and basically my version looks like total crap in comparison. I do not make the assumption that because something looks good, it’s not also helping kids learn.

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

The Hechinger Report

It turned out to be kind of a false promise that we were going to get additional funding, additional resources, support for school improvement,” Cassellius says. “It Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed. From a press release.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” i.e., where can a school reduce resources? ” (30). ” (30). This is a grim but, I think, quietly and widely held belief.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.” i.e., where can a school reduce resources? ” (30). ” (30). This is a grim but, I think, quietly and widely held belief.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

On the other hand, its champions argue that everything Johnson predicted is still possible, if only we give the program the resources it needs to succeed. If they’re healthy, they can learn. They eat peaches from shared platters that they have learned to politely pass to each other. Former President Lyndon B. Little to Nothing.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

As an example, she pointed to the Accelerated Learning Program, or ALP, which she spearheaded in her role as a senior VA advisor under the Obama administration. The most trumpeted new approach focuses around a complaint system and a separate GI Bill comparison tool that flags schools the department determines are in trouble.

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