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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Ushering in a new model.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

The $26-million school opened in 2017 with a central goal: to make kindergarten here more playful and joyful. 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.

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Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

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An announcement over the PA system reminded everyone that the general assembly session was mandatory—and to not chew gum as no one is above detention. According to Futuresource , a UK market research firm, devices running the Chrome operating system accounted for close to 60 percent of all sales of mobile devices in the U.S.

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Desegregation is unraveling in this Texas town

The Hechinger Report

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. While overhauling schools, the district went back to the federal court to argue that it no longer needed an extensive busing system, which district leaders argued had become tedious. . “We

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.