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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

We’re in the classrooms. NACA was born out of an urgent need to reimagine education for Indigenous youth: In 2005, three quarters of Native American students graduated on time in the Albuquerque school district, compared to 87 percent of all students, according to state data. “We’re leading these schools.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

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Even before the pandemic and the shift to distance education, learning extended beyond the classroom. The president and founder of Bernstein Strategy Group, Jon Bernstein has been working on education, education technology and telecommunications issues since 1995 and running his own government relations firm since 2005.

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Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

The Hechinger Report

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. Jackson says a coalition of Reynolds allies took over the school board in 2005. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

It also allows her to teach students who arrive in her classroom with vastly different skill levels. Seventy-five different languages are spoken in the schools, and many of the refugees who populate classrooms haven’t been formally educated in years. “I I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. Greeley, Colo.,

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I The Flipped Classroom". Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

produced and directed a documentary film called Corridor of Shame , released in April 2005 and shown on public television statewide. Superintendent Ray Rogers showed him around the village of rusty portable classrooms at J.V. Bud Ferillo is a preppy, genteel sort of hellraiser. The activist and former legislator from Columbia, S.C.,

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