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OPINION: This high-poverty district learned to think differently about teaching and learning

The Hechinger Report

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. percent in 2008-09 to 84.9 Related: Can schools create gifted students? Here are five ways we are giving students the opportunities they need to excel: 1.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap? A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

The impetus for the change at Juarez can be traced to Ocon’s appointment as principal in 2008, veteran school staffers say. He and his department leaders analyzed state requirements and national standards like the Common Core to extract the underlying skills they required and then put together a roadmap for students to achieve mastery.

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” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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