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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

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Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Reframing expectations.

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

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In fact, for superintendent Dr. Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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How little is too little money for schools?

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The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. And, beginning with the graduating class of 2021, the district has added an additional challenge, a program it refers to collectively as Diploma+. His predictions have not been borne out by time. Related: Schools on U.S.

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How A Strengths-Based Approach to Math Redefines Who Is “Smart”

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Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. — SFComplexInstruction (@SFComplex_Instr) February 3, 2016. Walton remembers one student, Alexis, who would often push the limits in class and consistently referred to herself as bad at math. Designing Groupwork. Smarter Together! So we need each other.”.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

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From 1998 to 2010, the time spent on nonacademic subjects in kindergarten, including free play, decreased in favor of more time on academic subjects, such as conventional spelling and writing simple equations, a 2016 study found. Related: Opinion: Kindergarten is more than preparation for first grade, and we need to take it back.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

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The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. “It was always, ‘Well, that’s not a reflection of Bethlehem,'” he said, referring to the reading scores. Emily Hanford | APM Reports.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

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Raise your hand if you know your stretch goal,” Johnson said — referring to students’ personal better-than-best target score on their upcoming standardized tests. “I He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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