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Ways to Teach Communication Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

Read alouds can be useful for teaching communication skills to elementary students. Name writing practice (Spanish: Escritura de nombre ): This worksheet helps early elementary students practice writing their name. Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel 2008. March 2, 2014. Seidenberg, M.S.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies. According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2014 $0. FY 2003 $700,500,000. ” FY 2012 $0.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

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A little-known program could be a model for how to spend billions in federal money on childcare

The Hechinger Report

Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care. The Early Head Start partnership program has been solving many of the problems the plan is attempting to address for years.

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Writes of passage

Learning with 'e's

Indeed, according to Crystal, people can become adept at playing the language game, inventing many new words and idioms, and devising entirely new ways of communicating through text (Crystal, 2008). Presently, there is still an emphasis on the teaching of cursive writing (longhand) in primary (elementary) education, and rightly so.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face. 25) Kraft, M.

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