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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

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Gariecia was in my Sociology of Class, Gender, and Race elective during the 2016-2017 academic year. John Lee: currently an Asian American Studies, World Religions, Civics and Modern World History teacher at Niles West High School in Skokie, Ilinois. Paula Katrina, Victoria & Gariecia are all Golden Apple Scholars.

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Teenage Brains Are Elastic. That’s a Big Opportunity for Social-Emotional Learning.

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It’s a simple idea: learning as navigation, choosing among concepts and strategies that either pave a path forward or trap you in the puzzle at hand. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” says Saskia Levy Thompson, a program director at the Corporation’s Education program, where she manages the New Designs to Advance Learning portfolio.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

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The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study.

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

The Hechinger Report

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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KinderLab Robotics Announces New KIBO Guidebook to Enhance STEAM Education

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For teachers implementing an activity centers-based classroom, library, or makerspace, this new guide provides 10 lessons that embed the KIBO philosophy of “Build – Art – Code – Play” in student-directed, discovery-based learning experiences.

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Tighter standards put college-level courses at risk

eSchool News

Advanced high school courses could be at risk under new standards. Indiana state education officials are working on a plan to address tighter academic standards for those teaching Indiana high school classes in which students also can earn college credit. “This will have a detrimental effect on dual credit in our state.”

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. She graduated that May with her 2017 class. Research found that a $3.5 TULSA, Okla. — Here’s why they’re not.

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