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Schools have struggled to add learning time after COVID–here’s how one district did it

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A year ago, school would have been over around this time, and the students at Columbus East Elementary would be walking out the door. School leaders floated the idea to lengthen Cicero 99’s school day before COVID hit, but the proposal took on greater urgency when educators saw how the pandemic set students back in reading and math.

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How to help struggling young readers

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Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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How to Prepare Students in the Early Years to Read at Grade Level

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Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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The Idea of a Teacher Salary Minimum Is Gaining Steam in Congress. Where Has This Worked?

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Maryland Maps a Way Forward Some years back, before the start of the pandemic, Maryland state legislators were thinking about how to improve their education system, hoping to transform it into one of the best in the world. billion a year — was establishing a statewide salary minimum. So why a salary minimum? Money talks,” Hise says.

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