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Why a High-Achieving District Keeps Tinkering With a School Model That Already Works

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The 2018 Niche.com rankings listed our district as one of the top 15 “Best School Districts in America” for the fourth year in a row. Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. But when it came to how they’d really work, the attitude was, ‘Let’s let the teachers worry about it.’ ”. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online. We truly can use this as an opportunity to facilitate the idea of learning… how to learn. They begin to see how Communication connects with effective Collaboration. 2018 Comp Thinking 1.

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The pandemic robbed thousands of New York City children of parents. Many aren’t getting the help they need

The Hechinger Report

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. She searched online, using phrases like “how to help grieving students” and cobbled together handouts.

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MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

The Hechinger Report

From the time she was in elementary school, Isabella Cross has dreamed of going to an Ivy League college to become an engineer. But when that trustee, Byron Trott, asked in 2018 how many students at her university came from rural places, as he had, “we couldn’t even answer the question,” Betley said. CROSSVILLE, Tenn.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. Cooper Lane Elementary School in Maryland’s Prince George’s County school district had almost 550 children, 60 percent of whom are Hispanic. Credit: Tyrone Turner for WAMU. The stories she hears are awful.