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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. This coming fall, children who have a fifth birthday by June 2, 2025, can enroll. Regardless of income, families will have access to top-notch early schooling.

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Virginia’s Chesapeake Public Schools Partners with Discovery Education to Inspire, Engage, and Empower the District’s 16,300 Elementary Students

eSchool News

Through this new collaboration, educators and students in 28 CPS elementary schools will receive access to a suite of Discovery Education’s award-winning digital learning resources. CPS’ strategic plan, Empower 2025 has set the school system on an exciting new path to even higher academic excellence. Discovery Education?

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Smithsonian and Carolina Biological Announce New Version of Elementary Science Curriculum to Raise Bar in 3D Learning

eSchool News

Accessibility for students is emphasized. This elementary curriculum engages, inspires, and connects students firsthand to the world around them through a total of 24 student-driven modules. The new program features a robust and integrated assessment system, including a new assessment map.

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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources 

eSchool News

  CHARLOTTE, NC — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The district’s strategic plan— Expedition to 2025: Purpose. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Including young learners in the push for reading reform

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. A wave of new laws across the country is attempting to transform how elementary school children learn to read.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school.

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Lost in translation: Parents of special ed students who don’t speak English often left in the dark

The Hechinger Report

And school districts face an escalating threat of parent lawsuits, or even federal investigation, if they don’t take language access seriously. Their number one concern, across all racial and demographic groups, was access and inclusion in special education. We need them to have student success.” There’s also an issue of context.

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