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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Distance learning began March 23.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. HATHORNE, Mass. — Holocaust Memorial Museum. Xerras said afterward.).

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges of education are preparing them. He handed me a roll book, the keys to my classroom and wished me good luck.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

Wherever classrooms are open, there will likely be some form of social distancing and other hygiene measures in place that challenge traditional teaching and learning. This summer, 3,000 fresh TFA recruits will offer a remote version of Springboard’s reading strategies workshop for up to 9,000 pre-K through fourth-graders nationwide.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life?