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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. percent jump in those who were bullied or by text or online. About the Author.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. As those students enter the workforce and gain experience, it’s quite possible that their wages will catch up too.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Jordan Mickens, who spent his first year as a teacher at Castlemont High School in 2014, said he vividly remembers the technology divide his students faced compared with those in the wealthy areas surrounding Oakland.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. During the 2014-15 school year, the most recent year of available federal data, more than 37,000 students with special needs graduated with a certificate instead of a diploma.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

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Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. Our way of convincing our fellows is with experience. I had it real bad,” he said.

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