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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

eSchool News

California’s state math guidelines encourage students to take algebra in ninth grade, for example, while New York schools are supposed to offer high school math to eighth graders who want to take it. That could shortchange kids who don’t have a parent who can step in and do that kind of advocacy, Kaufman noted.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.

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Why Mindfulness And Trauma-Informed Teaching Don’t Always Go Together

MindShift

Mindfulness is a fast growing trend both in the world generally and in schools. Himelstein also offers these guidelines for teachers using mindfulness: Don’t force it. Advocacy: everything from learning to say “No” (set boundaries), to working at a higher level to impact policy or structural change.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before. “If California part of national trend. The results have been promising.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It But older children need movement too — at least an hour a day according to federal guidelines — and they are getting a lot less of it. Girls, black students and Hispanic students get less exercise than white boys.

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Leading a District Effectively During an Unprecedented School Year

edWeb.net

The priorities included having multiple scenarios for school openings and closings, based on evolving CDC guidelines and COVID infection rates, and continued development of the district infrastructure needed to handle them. Domenech identified key areas for leaders to focus on and highlighted some of the recommendations that had been made.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. In each school year we analyzed, more than 8,000 districts did not meet the one-in-20 guideline.