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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. In 2006-07, St. From 2006 to 2016, St. A student raises her hand in a Louisiana high school class.

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Held back, but not helped

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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. “We In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

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The report also found that two-thirds to three-fourths of 9th graders who did return to school after incarceration withdraw within a year. Rankin County Youth Court Judge Thomas Broome told the Jackson Free Press with some pain that before 2006, juvenile-detention centers in the state didn’t have to have school.

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

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A recent study by the American Association for Employment in Education reported teacher shortages in more than half of the countries surveyed. UNESCO reports that the market for pre-primary, primary and secondary education worldwide expanded by more than 142 million students between 1999 and 2006. million trained teachers.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

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Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Suspension rates nearly doubled between 1973 and 2006. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Students take 20 minutes each day to work on social interactions and understanding their emotions. BURIEN, Wash. — percent. “The

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

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Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report It was just the latest interruption in schooling that’s been characterized by near constant disruption. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report The Puerto Rican school district, the sixth largest in the U.S., Department of Education report. Nothing could be salvaged.