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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. Tablets have surged from 26% to 55% usage as kids’ device of choice during car rides. What can schools do? About the Author.

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OPINION: Using prime baseball season to strike out summer learning loss

The Hechinger Report

The school, which already incorporates baseball into its educational programs, was a natural fit for MLB’s new initiative, Summer Slugger — a baseball-themed digital math and literacy program that allows students to hit home runs with word problems and strike out batters through multiplication and division. Future of Learning.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

A rare brand-new nonprofit university, NewU has a comparatively low $16,500-a-year price that’s locked in for a student’s entire education and majors with interchangeable requirements so students don’t fall behind if they switch. Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

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The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As educators in Nevada, we are always hearing negative noise about the district where we work. In order to do this, I tapped into the valuable resources available to educators free online.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

“We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. We need to change that.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The United States faces a serious educational crisis. In the first ten months of 2018, public educators quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 on staff. What subjects are losing the most educators? In addition to educational disruption, what are the costs to school systems? By Franklin Schargel.

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