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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

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This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. It could be years before complete national data is available, Roza said. What’s behind the apparent imbalance? Follow the money.

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ChatGPT with My Students

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As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). GPT models are trained on large amounts of text data and are able to generate natural language text that is coherent and grammatically correct. Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues.

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OPINION: Historically underserved school districts in Mississippi were hit hard in the pandemic and need immediate help  

The Hechinger Report

Our extensive work at MCJ culminated in a report that showcased an unsettling reality: Affordability and availability are formidable barriers to internet access, while reading and math proficiency rates are significantly below the state averages in grades 3-8. Our report found that this left them at a severe disadvantage.

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PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020

The Hechinger Report

They are listed in the order of popularity — by the number of times readers viewed them on our website, The Hechinger Report. This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Will history repeat?

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

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Then the 2008 recession slashed school art budgets even more. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The post PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

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Six newsrooms joined together to report on the problem and find solutions for America’s reading problem. ” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally.

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Foreign Language Classes are Becoming More Scarce

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Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States. Most students in the U.S.

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