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PROOF POINTS: When schools experimented with $10,000 pay hikes for teachers in hard-to-staff areas, the results were surprising

The Hechinger Report

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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Young children misbehave. Some are suspended for acting their age

The Hechinger Report

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland and the Slovak Republic, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

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But the analysis also warns that schools must prepare for closures due to heat-induced power outages or poor air quality. “In Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

Edsurge

Over the few weeks of the World Cup in 2018, the games were inescapable, as they will be again this November and December. I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench.

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

Edsurge

The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 percent) during the 2018-19 school year to 846 out of 1,637 students (51.7 percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5

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K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums

EdTech Magazine

Wed, 09/19/2018 - 12:15. When asked to imagine what data analysis in schools might look like, many might picture a classroom full of students huddled around computer screens, inputting numbers into spreadsheets and running simulations until their eyes water. . K–12 Schools Work to Incorporate Computer Science into Curriculums.

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