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Why Santa Fe Broke the K-12 Model and Chose a Different Curriculum for the Middle Grades

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Erica Wheeler EdSurge: Why did you decide to adopt MidSchoolMath's core curriculum? We thought about elementary, middle and high school. EdReports Review: MidSchoolMath received a perfect score on EdReports in the latest 2021 criteria for math curriculum. I'm excited to use it in a face-to-face classroom.

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

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Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. When I do an H, I do a straight line down, another straight line down and then I cross in the middle,” Miller said, demonstrating on a projector in a front corner of the classroom. A student works on a writing assignment in Heather Miller’s classroom.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way.

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

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. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? I wanted a new pet.

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How little is too little money for schools?

The Hechinger Report

The district says it has tried to prevent the cuts from reaching the classroom by spending its limited funding more efficiently. The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. Insulating the classroom. Related: The gap between rich and poor schools grew 44 percent over a decade.

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Reassessing Curriculum Development: Top 3 Factors to Consider

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There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students. Alex said that the biggest change he has seen is not in the topics we’re teaching, but rather how it’s been taught and this is now formalized in many of the newer standards which come under the Common Core.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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That would be by April 30, 2021.) Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. DeVos was not in favor of extending that waiver into 2021—and neither, it appears, is Cardona. history by fall 2022.

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