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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

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Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. STEM gives me challenges to think about.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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Additionally, Sphero says it has more than a thousand lessons and activities that are aligned to Common Core and other state academic standards for math and computer science. Sphero was part of the inaugural class in 2014; littleBits joined two years later. Students making and tinkering with littleBits.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

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Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

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million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. My friends are all proud of me.

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

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Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In Certificates of attendance are designed for students with severe cognitive limitations who cannot meet high school academic standards. He graduated in 2013.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12. million by February 2014 for a game to teach kids social-emotional learning. million by February 2014 for a game to teach kids social-emotional learning.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

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That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).