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

Edsurge

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. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building. Related: This program is proven to help moms and babies — so why aren’t we investing in it more ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The USA Today : “Kids on winning robotics team told, ‘Go back to Mexico’ ” The kids were from Pleasant Run Elementary School in Indianapolis. “By 2030 students will be learning from robots ,” the World Economic Forum claims. Racism, Immigration, and Education. ” Education in the Courts. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” [says founder] Rebekah Neumann. “ What will universities look like in 2030? This week, it’s WeWork , which recently acquired the troubled coding bootcamp Flatiron School. IP concerns.