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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. 40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

In 2020, Chicago Public Schools won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. The study found students at participating schools were at a lower risk of becoming a shooting victim, though the difference was not statistically significant. It’s a murky area to use for assessing threats.”. New social media program draws on pilot’s lessons.

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Bring back joy by teaching outdoors: A how-to guide

The Cornerstone for Teachers

On the other hand, Alisa, an elementary school teacher from Massachusetts, says that building outdoor learning spaces in her school lead to a stronger community as everyone came together to make it happen for the kids. Case Study #1: Jain, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas.

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

Claire Latané, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona who has been heavily involved in connecting landscape architects with schools for site assessments and planning, says that her own experience as a single working mom in public schools has given her a greater sense of what’s at stake.

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Detroit schools are effectively barred from raising funds to repair their buildings. Federal money is the city’s only hope

The Hechinger Report

If Congress approves the multi-trillion-dollar spending bill pushed by the White House, millions more could flow to a district long held up as a case study in how structural racism, mismanagement and poverty can break an American school system. While a school district assessment found Western will need $13.5