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

eSchool News

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science.

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Using Learning Science to Create Action on Equity

edWeb.net

By combining the small group focus with short cycles of improvement, schools can truly create a system where every child is receiving the best possible education. Administrators and educators need to look at their own actions and determine what role they play in student outcomes. Examine adult practices. Make learning collective.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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Can you fix middle school by getting rid of it?

The Hechinger Report

David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents. Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school.

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K-8 or Middle School: What Works for Early Adolescents Depends on Many Factors

MindShift

The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents. Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school.

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The new minority on campus? Men

The Hechinger Report

That’s an extreme example of a surprising shift besetting all of higher education. Department of Education. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Maybe [admissions officers] should be going into middle schools and start talking to fifth-graders about the benefits of college education.”.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Maybe they shouldn’t choose between education and business.

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