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

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Now they ask teachers to check the tool’s data privacy policy and age requirements when making a request, so they have a better understanding of why a tool is—or isn’t—a good fit.

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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. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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How to build an engineer: Start young

The Hechinger Report

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. QUINCY, Wash. — Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

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

MindShift

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

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

Edsurge

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. So why a salary minimum? Money talks,” Hise says. In Maryland, teachers earn about 80 cents on the dollar.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. At home, she likes to cook stir-fries and feu (Lao beef stew), and recently learned how to prepare a papaya salad, based on a recipe from her mother and grandmother. They know how to find a way to pay for it and make it the best college experience,” she says. “I I hate coming to school.

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OPINION: A better democracy starts in our schools

The Hechinger Report

Prioritizing civics is not purely about understanding government, but rather, understanding how to participate as reflective, engaged citizens. Unfortunately, we’re not teaching students how to take part in meaningful discourse, or how to discuss controversial issues. We need to repay that long-accumulated civic debt.

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