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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

NeverEndingSearch

The study emphasizes a critical equity issue: our most vulnerable students are those most impacted by a declining numbers of school librarians. I recently chatted with project director, Deb Kachel to dig a little deeper into what the study means and her hopes for its impact and use. or SLIDE research project. It was never documented.

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

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Why spend a year studying information in a print textbook that doesn’t match the thinking or values of the school and its students? But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

One reason for the growth is the sort of advertisement that attracted Nemergut, which often touts the schools’ long experience in online instruction and teachers specially trained in remote learning. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.”

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Flagship universities fail to enroll Black and Latino high school graduates from their state

The Hechinger Report

They tend to have higher graduation rates, and their alumni networks provide powerful economic and political connections. W]e have progress to make,” University of Mississippi spokesman Rod Guajardo acknowledged in a statement. has one of the highest six-year graduation rates for Black students: 81 percent in 2019.

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This program is helping fast-diversifying suburban schools promote success for all students

The Hechinger Report

AVID now has a $75 million annual budget and many years’ worth of independent studies and thousands of individual examples suggesting that it works. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results. Not anymore.

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Early Literacy Policies More Than Just ‘Retention Policies’

ExcelinEd

These critical supports extend beyond classroom instruction to include teacher training on the science of reading, parental involvement and read-at-home plans, extended learning opportunities such as summer camps, individualized student reading plans, and more specialized, targeted support. The policy is also popular with educators.