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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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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. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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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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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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A day in the life of a school social worker

The Hechinger Report

Students, their parents and guardians, and educators continue to grapple with the stress, depression, frustration and grief stemming from closed schools, lost jobs and wages, death of loved ones and prolonged uncertainty caused by Covid. The pandemic has thrust student mental health into the spotlight.

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Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools

The Hechinger Report

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County. Lawson had moved her family to Greene County in 2008 after taking an administrative support position at the Greensboro Housing Authority.

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