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Parents feared Tennessee’s new reading law would hold back thousands of students. That didn’t happen

The Hechinger Report

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

The Science of Early Life Toxic Stress for Pediatric Practice and Advocacy. The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Monitor, January 2010, 41(1), pp. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015, 100(9), pp. Pediatrics, January 2012, 129(1), pp. Johnson, S.B., Riley, A.W.,

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015. Academically, the extended day seemed to be a bust.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Under her guidance, Albemarle County Public Schools was selected in 2015 for membership in the League of Innovative Schools., There were several of us.

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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. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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Connecting SEL with Academic Achievement to Achieve True Education Equity

edWeb.net

In this role, she works to fill current gaps in research, policy, and advocacy to ensure that schools holistically support the well-being and development of students, and especially for low-income students and students of color. Nancy is a P-12 Research Associate and leads the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development work at EdTrust.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. More than two-thirds of them are district-run schools.