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Illustrative Mathematics, Family Engagement Lab, and Partnership for Los Angeles Schools Collaborate to Support Family Engagement in Math

eSchool News

Family engagement in learning is a powerful lever to advance equitable educational outcomes. Launched in 2007, the Partnership is a nonprofit organization that serves 14,200 students across 19 TK-12 campuses in Watts, Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles, California. About the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.

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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

Educators are worried about a wave of high school students who are failing classes during the pandemic. Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. As education entrepreneurs know, growth in K-12 comes hard.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

Science education during COVID has challenged the best of teachers. They also noted how their efforts illuminated science education gaps that COVID heightened. This knowledge-based approach to assessment enables data collection that shapes science education and moves students towards more three-dimensional learning.

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OPINION: Three ways to help students who switch schools midyear

The Hechinger Report

public schools over six years (2007/08 to 2012/13). We’re also investing in more career and technical education programs — from sports medicine, digital media and commercial aquaponics to carpentry, HVAC and electrician careers — that are open to students across the district. Percent change in the number of homeless students in U.S.

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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Des Moines (1969), it was ruled that students and teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” a conclusion which should be freeing to you as educators. Free speech is not just a legal imperative; it is a core educational principle.” Investigate/Communicate.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These principles of Universal Design have transitioned into the educational sphere through various models, such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2000), Universal Design for Instruction (UDI; Scott et al., 2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., To start with, Courey et al.

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