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VHS Learning Is Awarded Teaching with Primary Sources Grant from Library of Congress 

eSchool News

This project is funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region program, managed by Waynesburg University. Primary sources will include photographs, audio recordings, videos, and manuscripts primarily from the Library of Congress. History curriculum.”

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

A study published by Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences found that students’ learning outcomes significantly improve when teachers use differentiated content that responds to a student’s learning preferences.[5] Students can also select independent reading books from our online library. Retrieved from sciencedirect.com: [link].

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Professional learning communities (PLCs) or networks (PLNs) are groups of teachers that share and critically interrogate their practices in an ongoing, reflective, collaborative, inclusive, learning-oriented, and growth-promoting way to mutually enhance teacher and student learning ( Stoll, Bolam, McMahon, Wallace, and Thomas, 2006 ).

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How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free

The Hechinger Report

SANTIAGO, Chile — So poor was the education she received at her public high school, Pilar Vega Martinez had to take an extra year to study for the Prueba de Selección Universitaria — the Chilean version of the SAT. I’ve had to work while studying to start saving money” for it. Photo Elissa Nadworny. The work paid off.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Rory Williams stands in the library at George Washington Carver High School. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

billion on elementary and secondary education. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. “We Brown plans to study elementary education with a focus on middle schools.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

Currently, Jon serves as the co-chair of the Education & Libraries Networks Coalition and the Homework Gap Big Tent Coalition, and as Executive Director of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training. Dr. King began his career as a high school social studies teacher and middle school principal.

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