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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

PlagiarismCheck

Plagiarism checkers have made it easier for students to ensure that their work is original and properly cited, ultimately improving the quality of their writing and promoting a culture of academic honesty. Technology and writing formed a strong symbiosis today. Academic honesty promotion is crucial for student success.

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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

She’s also come up with guidelines based on what a scant – but growing – body of research is finding. Guernsey calls her guidelines the three C’s — for media consumption: content, context, and your child; they come with a series of questions that can be tailored to each child. Technology'

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I Can’t Tell Them What They’ll Do (Classrooms, Justice, and Legacies)

The Jose Vilson

I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. Their technology spies on them while they dance and rant in front of their cameras. I have guidelines in my classroom, not rules. The police meant to protect them are the sixth-largest paramilitary in the world.

Classroom 162
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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. That’s a very exciting thing … watching them academically really open up. But we do.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. At least two dealt directly with the transition from high school to college or career.

Education 111
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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. School librarians form relationships and connections with every single student and teacher who walks through the doors of that school.

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