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Why Schools Still Struggle to Provide Enough Mental Health Resources for Students

Edsurge

We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.

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On ZTC, OER, and a More Expansive View

Iterating Toward Openness

UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. This choice rotated licensing into a secondary priority.

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Homework: Helpful, Harmful, or Otherwise?

Reading By Example

For example, my son was recently assigned a family heritage project. These examples are, by definition, homework. This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. I’m torn.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

For example, internships, team projects and artistic creations could be used to demonstrate mastery in place of a pencil-and-paper tests. It has always been true that algebra students need to master variables in order to move on to factoring, for example, but ninth graders weren’t always so adept at understanding that, Kylee’s teachers said.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

billion on elementary and secondary education. Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. Schools stand to receive $2.4 billion under the 2017 budget. “We

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Students with disabilities who are placed in general education classrooms get more instructional time , have fewer absences and have better post-secondary outcomes, research shows. Take your yellow paper and fold it horizontally,” Fair said, referring to a yellow sheet of paper that sat on each student’s desk. Who remembers ‘PEMDAS’?”