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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Back in Taveras’ classroom, Foster, the reading coach, checked in with the teacher.

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How to Prepare Students in the Early Years to Read at Grade Level

MindShift

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Back in Taveras’ classroom, Foster, the reading coach, checked in with the teacher.

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How to build an engineer: Start young

The Hechinger Report

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. — Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

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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. Lau Elementary. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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How to Introduce Engineering Principles Early to Help Inspire Interest in STEM

MindShift

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

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Short on financial knowledge, some school districts get bad deals on bonds

The Hechinger Report

What happened in our district should not have happened, but it did,” said John Brazeal, who joined the district as its chief financial officer in 2014. Pipes have been left in disrepair in an Antonia Elementary School art room storage closet in Imperial, Missouri, causing sewage to drip through. Community outrage.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” That’s the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , which is already having to repay Ohio some $60 million. ” His attorney says he will fight for the right to be paid the full value of his contract, which runs through 2026 – that’s over $40 million in salary and bonuses. ” Immigration and Education.