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OPINION: Four ways that Mississippi is teaching more children to read well

The Hechinger Report

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. The Magnolia State has been making steady progress on NAEP since 2005. Third, involve other stakeholders.

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” The school will serve 250 students across five centers this fall.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. But Bacon recognized that OneRoster has become the go-to standard for many districts, and increasingly for edtech vendors. Currently, as of 2019, there are 244.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. A great deal of them are logistics work and require a whole set of skills most teachers have little training in. Definition #2 – Guiding the Studies.

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How Schools Can Help Teachers Understand and Address Racial Bias

MindShift

Cambridge Street Upper school math teacher Stephen Abreu is also a trained facilitator for weekly discussions among teachers about race and bias. The centerpiece of the effort, as it has been outlined by the department to date, is a mandatory daylong implicit bias training for every teacher and administrator. This isn’t a quick fix.

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

The Hechinger Report

More than 3,000 of Mississippi’s kindergarteners, or 9 percent, were unable to move on to first grade for the 2019 school year, more than three times the percentage of children nationally who repeated kindergarten in 2014. Early education sets the train in motion for where children are going to end up.”. Readiness crisis.