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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

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MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Yet market uncertainty in 2016, fueled in part by global political instability and China’s slowdown—has dampened investors’ eagerness across all industries. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3

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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

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In 2003, the state began requiring future K-6 teachers to take two early literacy courses in their teacher-preparation training. A 2016 Governor’s Task Force on Teacher Preparation for Early Literacy Instruction set next steps for continued progress. Third, involve other stakeholders.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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As principals do classroom walkthroughs, they look for specific instruction based in the curriculum, rather than an academic standard dutifully written on the chalkboard but ignored. I didn’t fully grok it until I took over Amplify’s sales team in late 2016. The intervention program aligns with the core.

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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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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York.

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‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students

The Hechinger Report

Certificates typically take less time to earn than a degree and train students to be cosmetologists , truck drivers and medical assistants, among other jobs. The company posted more than $175 million in profits between 2004 and 2014, according to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a former company CEO who alleged that he was owed bonus pay.

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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.