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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

Edsurge

On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5 million in 2019.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. Carolyn Akers, CEO of a grassroots education foundation in Mobile, which is part of an effort to help 75,000 Mobile students earn new degrees by 2030. Airbus employees have volunteered as reading buddies for children in elementary, middle and high schools.

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OPINION: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

The Hechinger Report

As wildfires, smoke, storms and floods become more common and severe, a federal report has found that the majority of school districts that experienced disasters between 2017 and 2019 were disproportionately attended by students of color, students from low-income families, English learners and students living with disabilities.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Thursday, September 28, 2017. Joe: Well, I’m excited, because I look out at the world, and we have – UNESCO says, by 2030, we have a teacher shortage of 25.8

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38 By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Next on “Interpreting the 2017 NAEP Reading and Math Results.” Via The Washington Post : “The new lesson plan for elementary school: Surviving the Internet.” But some higher ed observers see tough odds for its long-term survival,” says Inside Higher Ed. NAEP NAEP NAEP NAEP !