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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

More parents are sending their young children to elementary school with a smartphone. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The presentation featured Raymond McNulty, President of the Successful Practices Network, and Michael Conner, Ed.D., About the Presenters. McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Superintendent of the Middletown Public Schools in Connecticut.

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Cielito Lindo presented the math of proofs in alcohol volume. Presenting the Taste of Math Honorees. Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Chef Marco Zapien of Zapien's Salsa Grill & Taqueria invited guests to measure the heat of various salsas. discussed shapes and volume.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. For some who have tried to return, a serious problem has presented itself. In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. A key component of the division’s project-based instructional model is its maker curriculum, which has been the subject of presentations by division educators around the country, including at the White House.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

Secretary of Education, and into the present day, doesn’t add up to much. Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. He’s had a few, but not too many. And even these lack much self-reflection.

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