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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

Edsurge

We’ve created award-winning high school programs , re-imagined college courses and leveraged technology to meet the ever-growing mental health needs that have been exasperated by the pandemic. Of course, educators can’t, and shouldn’t work from home. Teachers tell us they feel this tension every day.

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Tighter standards put college-level courses at risk

eSchool News

Advanced high school courses could be at risk under new standards. Indiana state education officials are working on a plan to address tighter academic standards for those teaching Indiana high school classes in which students also can earn college credit. The higher education commission is gathering that data.

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Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn’t Necessarily Hold Them Back

MindShift

Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures. Over time, the effects faded, but they still had higher GPAs and took fewer remedial courses in high school.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. He was the Learning Technology Policy Director for the Maine Department of Education for ten years and was directly responsible for the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the state’s 1:1 student computing program.

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

And yes, of course you’ll be paid: $9.77 Only 18 states meet or beat NAEYC’s standards for the entirety of the 2-year-old year, according to a 50-state scan by the Teacher Project and the Hechinger Report of licensing requirements for child care programs in each state. No pressure. Would you stay? based nonprofit.

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Mississippi accountability ratings gloomy for Jackson schools

The Hechinger Report

“There is no waiver for these scores,” Beaudoin said at an MDE board meeting this morning. Accountability ratings reflect ACT- and state-test score growth, graduation rates and the amount of students enrolled in advanced courses. Overall, the school year has been rocky for JPS.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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