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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Live Show Today - The Exploding Trend of "Pandemic Pods" and Micro-Schools #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launching “Mindful Technology Consultants” in 2013, she continues to train teachers at the masters level on the use of digital portfolios as alternative assessments, and on bringing mindfulness practices into the classroom. Tasha Ring is a licensed early childhood and elementary educator specializing in multisensory-based methodologies.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Second grade teacher Lynnon Carney helps a student with math at Arise Academy.

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For ed-tech success, why schools use technology is just as important as how

The Hechinger Report

For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Students in the Math, Engineering and Science Academy earn an average of $24,000 per student in academic scholarships; the Health and Medical Sciences Academy became a Governor’s Regional Health Academy in 2013 and in 2015, a new Environmental Studies Academy began operations. I think that technologies are certainly a part of it.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. They have not spent a second thinking about what kind of environment they are recruiting people to,” says El-Mekki, who invokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Code.org ®. URL: code.org. Organization: Digital Promise.