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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

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. That’s because Americans made fewer babies after the 2008 recession. What’s behind the apparent imbalance? Follow the money.

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Keyboarding Basics Part 1

Ask a Tech Teacher

Zeitz, 2008. If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? Rogers (2003), including: Improvement in language arts.

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Ways to Teach Communication Skills in the Classroom

Waterford

3,4] In addition, the National Early Literacy Panel reports that a young child’s ability to write their name and to write individual letters upon request is an indicator of future reading success.[3]. Read alouds can be useful for teaching communication skills to elementary students. The connections work in the other direction as well.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

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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Principal for a Day at Jackson Elementary

MIND Research Institute

I arrived at Jackson Elementary with a smile on the morning of March 22. Principal Cervantes reporting for duty! Twenty years later, I was spending my day with him in his first year as principal at Jackson Elementary. It was apparent that the Jackson Elementary community strongly values academics. A Chance Encounter.

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Play is crucial for middle schoolers, too

The Hechinger Report

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. Credit: Tom Sandner for The Hechinger Report. A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association used accelerometers to capture the activity levels of youth from ages 9 to 15.

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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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