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PROOF POINTS: Tracing Black-white achievement gaps since the Brown decision

The Hechinger Report

That data showed considerable progress in integrating schools but also some steps backward, especially since the 1990s in the nation’s biggest cities. That’s why I also wanted to trace the data on academic achievement over the same time period. Between 2012 and 2023, 40 years of progress in math vanished.

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How DC Public Schools Uses Student Data to Support Mental Health

Edsurge

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. Douglas Gotel For example, we use child-centered play therapy intervention in our elementary schools where kids learn how to solve their problems and work through relational difficulties. Join thousands of educators.

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K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums

EdTech Magazine

To facilitate increased focus from educators, the International Society for Technology in Education updated its standards for computer science curricula in July of this year, the first time since 2012, EdScoop reports. Engage Students in Data Science Through Activities. At Excel Public Charter School in Kent, Wash.,

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Science-backed scalable tools improve student mental health

eSchool News

These factors include individual traits, social support, and relationship with parents, among others (Credé & Niehorster, 2012). Schools and colleges can work with a trusted third party to host the survey on the third party’s server, to ensure student confidence in their data remains unassociated with their academic records.

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How one district has diversified its advanced math classes — without the controversy

The Hechinger Report

But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. Credit: Shane Bevel for The Hechinger Report Enrollment data suggest the effort to make higher-level math accessible to more students had started to yield results before the pandemic.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). In his paper “Teaching with a Global Perspective”, Dr. Percy Richardson (2012) emphasizes the importance of preparing students for a globally interconnected world. Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction.

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Will new standards improve elementary science education?

The Hechinger Report

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.