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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

That extra year is a killer – literally – when it comes to retained students’ secondary school completion rates. If you want to ensure that students don’t leave elementary school illiterate, hire a personal tutor for academically-struggling 4th graders. Florida’s graduation rate is 43rd in the country , while Iowa’s is 5th.

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24 classroom games to make student learning FUN

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Best for elementary (grades K-5). Best for secondary (grades 6-12). Games best for elementary grades. Scroll down for secondary games). You can use these as a template and make a copy of these slides and just swap out the comparisons for whatever you wanted. That’s great if you have older elementary students.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. So in 2015, he assigned Harper to visit all of Bethlehem’s elementary schools and find out how children were being taught to read.

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Common Core: Addressing Text Complexity through Digital Resources

wwwatanabe

Here are the new AR scores also in comparison to the Lexile scores : However, it''s not the be-all and end-all for selecting independent reading. One of my colleagues suggested that students just Google the answers, which is why teachers shy away from the Internet. So, why are we still asking questions they can Google?!

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Freedom dreaming and reflective teaching practices

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Being a secondary ELA teacher, this year we’re going to write our literary experiences and literary narratives about our reading process and our writing classes. It’s kind of cool because you’re speaking from a middle school perspective, but mine is from early elementary. Subscribe to the podcast in Google Play.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.” “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”