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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

Half of all principals quit during their third year , and districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals and improve their effectiveness. Secondary school superintendents joined their counterparts from the elementary school level to compare notes across schools, hoping to identify common problems and patterns.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. Over time, Fair figured out how to navigate these situations and talk students “down from the ledge.” No one taught her these strategies.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

That’s why the kind of early learning experiences the twenty 4-year-olds are getting in Ruth Shows’ classroom on a daily basis hold so much promise for educators and parents, who are already seeing how far children have come since the start of the school year. “I The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.

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13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years

TeachThought - Learn better.

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.