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

The Hechinger Report

Chandra Scott, director of strategic outcomes for the independent nonprofit Mobile Area Education Foundation, sat in on meetings to attract new business to the area, where boosters extolled the education system. “We Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. We thought things were fine,” Scott says. “We

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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. That’s an indication of how the whole system might lose students.

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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

For example, there is enormous funding available for schools to upgrade their HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) systems, in part because improving ventilation can reduce Covid transmission. Indeed, a recent report shows that HVAC systems are slated to be the single largest category of planned spending.

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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

Lara’s classmate Amber Phoumyvong, 17, shares his desire to escape from Lowell, but not his academic drive — a principal challenge to an education system trying to support a revitalization for places like Lowell. Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38 Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Next on “Interpreting the 2017 NAEP Reading and Math Results.” ” Via The Verge : “ Duolingo overhauled its fluency system to make it harder for advanced users.” Via The Washington Post : “The new lesson plan for elementary school: Surviving the Internet.” NAEP NAEP NAEP NAEP !

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Dr. Beate W. Nguyen, Principal + Global Scholar-Practitioner, Archdiocese of Los Angeles/St.