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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

Recent research has shown that SEL increases high school graduation rates, and post-secondary enrollment and graduation rates, as well as employment rates and wages. SEL also decreases behavioral issues, dropout rates, drug use, and teen pregnancy, so the advantages of including it in elementary and secondary classes are clear.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk

The Hechinger Report

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalizelearning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. That law, known as Act 77, “opened up learning beyond the four walls of the traditional classroom,” says John Fischer, who was a deputy secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education at the time. “It

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