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How Teacher Prep Programs Are Stepping Up Efforts to Recruit Students

Edsurge

For instance, a program called Educators Rising has chapters in high schools for students who might be interested in teaching that also provides info and arranges tours of education schools, says Jacqueline King, a consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Osmo From BYJU’s Names Peter Glovin Senior Vice President of Educational Sales

eSchool News

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”.

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OPINION: Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilities

The Hechinger Report

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. College leaders and faculty must continue to help students with disabilities develop the self-advocacy skills and self-determination they need to be successful.

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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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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Atlanta’s school board passed many of its enrollment policies and procedures back in 2008, after years of gentrification and a building boom consolidated upper-income and mostly white residents in the northern half of the city.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia. I think that technologies are certainly a part of it. Congress to accelerate innovation in education.

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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.