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More schools are adding pre-K classrooms. But do principals know how to support them?

The Hechinger Report

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed.

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Will new standards improve elementary science education?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Such jobs made up 6.2

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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There is evidence that universities have a slow-changing culture , when compared to for instance high- or secondary-schools. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school.

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OPINION: This cannot wait: We need concrete solutions to fight school shootings right now

The Hechinger Report

As a member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Recovery Network, I participated in a congressional roundtable on gun violence following October’s deadly massacre in Lewiston, Maine. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Notes from the 2015 Iowa STEM Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report.

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Blurring the lines between education and workforce

The Hechinger Report

In a July 2021 report , the two proposed blurring the last two years of high school with the first two years of college to modernize our secondary and post-secondary education and training systems and connect them “more tightly to the world of work and careers,” according to Vargas who, with Hartung, was among the report’s authors.

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Nepal says students have a right to learn in their native languages —but it still isn’t happening

The Hechinger Report

In the last five years, according to government data, rates of class repetition among elementary school students in Banke were higher in areas such as Nepalgunj, Narainapur, Duduwa and Janaki, where the proportion of non-Nepali speakers is higher. were non-Nepali speakers.