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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. I’ve seen what happens when you don’t have teachers in the classroom. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. In recent years, we’ve used podcasts and short videos, adding vibrancy to our messaging with examples from the classroom.

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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

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On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Bindu Veetel, coordinator of the Bridge to Calculus program for high school students at Northeastern University. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

Only 20 states have adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, meaning coverage of climate in classrooms is limited and inconsistent.). Integrating all of these elements into our classrooms may sound like a tall order, especially when you think about the strains that the pandemic has already put on students and teachers around the world.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. This month, for example, there’s just not a ton of food in the house. I hate homework.”.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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Chatterbox offers excellent instruction for language learners—from online tutoring for individuals and groups, including Skype sessions for young students in classrooms around the world, to conversational practice to supplement and accelerate classroom language learning for university students and others who want to learn.

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