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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

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Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? If funds are allotted, however, districts can request an extension to use them through March of 2026 in some cases). For many districts, the relief funding was significant.

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How to help struggling young readers

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Photo: Sarah Gonser for 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. BRONX, N.Y. —

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

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report ). BRONX, N.Y. —

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report. The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school.

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How to build an engineer: Start young

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Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Forty-nine percent of the jobs in science and engineering were held by white men in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on “ Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.”. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. —

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How to Introduce Engineering Principles Early to Help Inspire Interest in STEM

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This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Black and Hispanic women together claimed less than 4 percent of jobs in science and engineering, according to the report.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

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Photo by Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring how schools can prepare young people for the good middle-class jobs of the future. Photo by Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Photo by Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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