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Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District and Discovery Education Launch New Partnership

eSchool News

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program.

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OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future

The Hechinger Report

In early grades, connecting children to the places where they live helps them learn to take care of those places — so the places can take care of them over time. Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways.

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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

The Hechinger Report

As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. “When I as a teacher – and other ESL teachers – reach these kids to a fair degree of proficiency, now their scores no longer count for us,” said Nancy Erwin, an ESL teacher at Lincoln Elementary.