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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. Preservice teachers take an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. The seminar aimed to help prepare prospective teachers for real-world issues in the education workplace.

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

Edsurge

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. In the elementary and middle schools, the TAC discovered that over 50% of the students were using computers once a month or less.

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PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

The Hechinger Report

AIR presented early results from its “ National Survey of Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 ” at a virtual session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar on July 22, 2020. That allowed Desmoulin-Kherat to distribute 6,000 laptops to families at home.

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3 Native American women head to college in the pandemic. Will they get a sophomore year? 

The Hechinger Report

It was one of her last moments with her grandfather, who died at the end of August 2020, just a week after she arrived on campus. At the beginning of August 2020, Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu in August 2020. I really liked the whole vibe of it,” she said in September 2020. Kate’s) in 2020-21.

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

The Hechinger Report

Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Still, we were taking a risk.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. JULY 19, 2020 · 1:26 AM | EDIT. JUNE 28, 2020 · 7:23 PM | EDIT. JUNE 9, 2020 · 3:18 AM | EDIT. If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online.

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"How to Help Adolescents Think About the Last Year" - Parenting for Academic Success (and Parental Sanity)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground." This parent seminar is like no other.

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