eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

PORTLAND, May 12, 2021 – Blackbird today announced the official release of the world’s first educational version of JavaScript. First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

PORTLAND, July 13, 2021 – Blackbird, bridging the gap in Computer Science curriculum, today announced the availability of their K-12 Computer Science Pathway, designed to help school districts prepare students with the computer programming skills necessary to enter the workforce – or continue their education at the university level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The project-based lessons, or curricula, used in all four of the evaluations were developed by academic experts at universities over many years and teachers were extensively trained and coached to implement them properly.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

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?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. And, beginning with the graduating class of 2021, the district has added an additional challenge, a program it refers to collectively as Diploma+. So that we become kind of the farm team, the training ground.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

The latest skirmishes in the social studies wars started with former President Donald Trump, who barred federal agencies from conducting racial sensitivity training and threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that taught “The 1619 Project.” 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. A second-tier subject.

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