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Arkansas’ LISA Academy Renews Partnership with Global Edtech Leader Supporting Student Success

eSchool News

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Little Scholars of Arkansas (LISA) Academy is a tuition-free public charter school with a comprehensive STEM-focused college preparatory program. Mystery Science.

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Practical Steps: Consider using tools like Harvard’s Implicit Association Test to explore unconscious biases, and actively seek to challenge them in your teaching. Use Media and Technology Thoughtfully In the age of technology, media can be a powerful tool in educating students about diversity and inclusion. link] Buchanan, L.

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Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

Edsurge

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair? The game keeps going.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

She was lured in part by the amenities and teaching tools that would come with the brand-new school. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Ann Arbor Public Schools, a more affluent district with about 17,000 students at the time, was also predicting its enrollment to decline between 2015 and 2020.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. The academic screening tools “were patently unfair.”

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Five Steps to Ensure Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last reauthorized in 2004, with amendments in 2015, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were updated back in 2008, the demand for accessibility and equality in education continues to grow.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. Kids talking to kids.

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