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Arkansas DoE Names Magnetic Reading™ Foundations Approved ELA Foundational Skills Program for Grades K–2

American Consortium for Equity in Education

The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts.

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Arkansas Department of Education Names Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading™ Foundations an Approved English Language Arts Foundational Skills Program for Grades K–2

eSchool News

The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.—

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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading

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Schools and districts The move toward aligning literacy instruction with the science of reading has largely been a grassroots movement without federal support. Publishers Publishers will continue to work toward aligning their instructional materials to the science of reading in 2024.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

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But district leaders, administrators and teachers have incredible demands placed on them, which were exacerbated by the pandemic and while there are high-quality materials available, they’re not compiled. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level.

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Teachers in Common-Core States Have Big Say in Choosing Resources, Report Suggests

Marketplace K-12

More than 90 percent of math educators surveyed on the report, for instance, said they either selected or developed their own materials. And many teachers at the elementary level said they used those self-selected or developed materials frequently–at least once a week.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

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The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

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These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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