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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

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What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. million in 2019.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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Math performance among elementary and middle-school students has fallen by 6 to 15 percent below pre-pandemic growth rates, depending on the students’ age, since before the pandemic, according to the Northwest Evaluation Association, which administers standardized tests nationwide. Okay, now you’re talking math.”

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

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This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation. Furthermore, at COP 27, UNESCO, the U.N.’s s educational, scientific and cultural arm, is unveiling something called the Greening Education Partnership.

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

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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. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

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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. Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school.

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

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The framework for human rights that gives refugees the same rights we have,” Hedayat says, “is an insurance policy for us all. The Student Privacy Pledge, a collaboration between FPF and SIIA, is a code of conduct for edtech companies aimed at raising awareness and encouraging clear articulation of privacy policies.

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