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

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A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. In a Colorado district, 80 students work a combined 350 to 400 hours per month, earning $10 per hour doing STEM-related jobs.

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Age of Learning’s Latest Is a $100 Million Educational Game

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Age of Learning has plenty of the latter, thanks in part to a $150 million fundraise in 2016. Most of the content is aligned to state and national academic standards for grades 3 to 6, according to the company. Creating a game that is both educational and entertaining is not for the faint of heart—or capital.

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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook to Enhance STEAM Education

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Each lesson includes facilitation suggestions, materials lists, center setup, and academic standards alignment. Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, facilitation tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards.

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

Since 62 percent of 2-year-olds had working mothers in 2016, according to U.S. The lack of clear standards helping to shape what that care should entail has created an uneven system of care based on a fairly low bar for quality. . • We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it.

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

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While seven of those 27 schools were able to reach 70 percent student proficiency in either English or math in 2016, none had attained 80 percent. At Arise, the school whose name begins with Achievement, not even 40 percent of students were proficient in 2016, based on composite scores for English and math.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

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That was in January 2016. In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically.

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

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He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. In the agreement with Clark County School District, nine middle schools agreed to the Planet3 pilot program from August 2016 to May 2017.