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New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

The Hechinger Report

A new report says the state of Pennsylvania ought to be doing more to oversee such facilities serving foster and delinquent children. Photo: Caroline Preston for The Hechinger Report/HuffPost. But the report released today suggests that many of these foster children are attending on-grounds schools in lieu of public schools.

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

To promote CT professional development for teachers, we held four workshops, called CT Boosters, to provide teachers with examples and guidance around the integration of two key CT practices, data and analysis and algorithms. Understanding Data and Analysis. A bit of Appalachian ingenuity. Connecting With What Teachers Already Do.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. This isn’t because the internet is down or due to a device malfunction—it’s because the online gradebook isn’t able to share data with the student information system (SIS).

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How to Choose the Best Educational Software for Your Classroom

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. Analytics and Communication Platforms Several applications work on data to provide insights into student performance and assist educators in making data-driven decisions.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Maker-education advocates have a lot of student success stories to share but, so far, not a lot of data.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Instead of rotating through half a dozen or so classes each day for an entire academic year, as students would at a traditional middle or high school, here they take one or two classes at a time for three to four weeks.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

EdNews Daily

New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. This data is “hidden” inside governance claims that include charters as if they are traditional public schools and underestimate the homeschooling movement. .

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