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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. Managing Credit and Debt – Students need to understand the true costs of credit cards before they receive that first mailing in their college post office box their freshman year.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

Edsurge

This is especially evident in the elementary grades, which on average only teach social studies 30 minutes a week. Georgia in 1831, in comparison to the 1957 ruling in Cooper v. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.”

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, students who tended to read books more often on digital devices scored only 15 points higher than students who rarely read – a difference of less than a year’s worth of learning. But it could be that students who enjoy reading receive lots of books as presents or bring more books home from the library. years of learning.

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From Seesaw to Shadow Puppet EDU: Exploring Creativity & Fluency

EdTechTeacher

In Spring 2017, I spent a week in Johns Creek, Georgia with an awesome group of elementary educators at Shakerag Elementary School. Teachers can choose from a library of already-created activities such as note-taking, classification, labeling, and exit tickets, or they can create their own activity.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. By comparison, the national average is about 20.4 Schools stand to receive $2.4

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What would actually happen if we gave all parents the chance to pick their children’s schools?

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. By comparison, 23 percent said they looked at the school website and two-thirds attended open houses at the schools. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

A hallway at Franklin Elementary school lined with tiny lockers and student art. Katrina Allen, principal at Franklin Elementary School in Syracuse’s Washington Square neighborhood, has watched her city transform from manufacturing boomtown to bust. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y., Photo: Emmanuel Felton.