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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

Principals can also be critical in retaining effective teachers: one study found that teacher turnover rates increased when there was a change in principals. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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

The Hechinger Report

Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

Edsurge

Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

completion of a minimum course of study, content mastery, proficiency on college- and career-ready assessments, etc.) Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards. College and career-ready graduation requirements.