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After Layoffs, Math Curriculum Developer Reasoning Mind Sells to Weld North Education

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Multiple former Reasoning Mind employees however confirmed to EdSurge that the nonprofit underwent several rounds of layoffs throughout 2017, which affected several dozen staff. As the layoffs began in spring 2017, former employees say it became clear that finding a buyer was likely the best way to keep Reasoning Mind’s products alive.

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

The Hechinger Report

population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. percent of the U.S.

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Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

The Hechinger Report

In her lowest-tier class in fall 2017, seven of the 10 students were Black, Hispanic or multiracial, compared with 25 percent of the school. He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly.

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Massachusetts once had the best state test in the country. Will it again?

The Hechinger Report

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. States and districts responded. She said half-day kindergarten is partly to blame.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool.

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The Business of Education Technology

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But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” Funding has shrunk. ” You are a fool. Everything’s a business opportunity.