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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill. Investments in teacher training programs when new state standards or social-emotional learning programs are rolled out are recent examples where statewide decisions shape local choices.

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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

PlagiarismCheck

We also see continuous promoting and steering of open science systems in the digital world.(3) Strict adherence to the policy of academic integrity, following academic citation rules and guidelines, to provide proper credit to the sources used in research. Academic honesty promotion is crucial for student success.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

Edsurge

In 2018, a report conducted by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania found that 44 percent of new teachers left the classroom in five years. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

The staff, system, and society is full of bigots & bigotry. You’re not just fighting individual teachers or lone principals; you’re protesting a system of oppression. It’s simply harder for individuals to seek redress against what is really a coalition between powerful neighborhood groups, civic leaders and school system heads.

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What Can Schools Learn from the Successful Transformation of Public Libraries?

Edsurge

Increased investment cannot explain this gap, given that libraries tend to receive a fraction of the public funds communities pour into their school systems, and that local, state and federal funding for libraries has fluctuated dramatically during an era of steady expansion of the library’s missions.

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