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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

eSpark

Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline. Step-by-step instruction, particularly with math, and clear goal or expectation setting both increases test scores and improves the attitudes of students who struggle (Al-Makahleh, 2011). #5: The Elementary School Journal, 108(2), 115–130. Why do we do this? Bibliography.

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Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

Just as it is subject to hacking and potential bias, it is also subject to revision, fact-checks, updates and improvement from its well-established collaborative system of editorial oversight and control. Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders.

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Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowan school

The Hechinger Report

Students at Hunt Arts Elementary in Sioux City, Iowa integrate art into all of their lessons, a technique that ensures students still learning English have multiple ways of expressing what they know. Fifth graders participate in a world drumming lesson as part of their regular music class at Bryant Elementary in Sioux City, Iowa.

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Cramming for Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

When they arrived, many of the soon-to-be kindergarteners in Miami Elementary School’s summer preschool program could not spell their names or grip a pencil. 1, one week before the start of school, the Miami Elementary students were walking in a single-file line to the cafeteria, writing their names, counting to 100 and reciting the alphabet.

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One district’s innovative ideas to engage parents

eSchool News

Students with engaged parents traditionally have better attendance, a more positive attitude, and higher rates of graduation than peers with less support. These efforts led to the formation of the Guilford Parent Academy (GPA) in 2011, a multifaceted parent engagement initiative that is partly supported by federal Race to the Top money.

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district. Leslie Williams.

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