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K–12 Videoconferencing Offers New Opportunities for Understaffed School Districts

EdTech Magazine

In a Gallup survey of K–12 district superintendents, 67 percent of respondents said the number of new teacher candidates is decreasing; 39 percent said quality is also declining. With the teacher-to-student ratio increasing by 30 percent over the past three decades to 26.8 The number of teachers in the U.S. by Curtiss Strietelmeier.

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4 Ways for K–12 Administrators to Master Google Classroom

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how blended learning platforms such as Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams can improve student engagement. Post a question in the Classwork stream to engage staff in inquiry-driven discussions. . Here are four ways to put Google Classroom to work for you. Allow Users to Access Content at Their Convenienve.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

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PROOF POINTS: The paradox of “good” teaching

The Hechinger Report

They analyzed 53 elementary school teachers who had been randomly assigned to classrooms in their schools located in four different districts along the East Coast. Focusing on math instruction, the researchers compared students’ math scores with surveys that the fourth and fifth-grade students had filled out as part of an experiment.

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Purdue begins work to advance science of reading with $1.5M grant

eSchool News

In early fall, the faculty gathered to review the results of a survey that would allow them to assess how prepared alumni and preservice teachers felt about literacy. Six months in, the Purdue faculty have already made strides in their initial planning for revamping the curriculum.

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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. We don’t have eyes on our students.

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PROOF POINTS: Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says

The Hechinger Report

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade. Redding and his co-author, Jason A.

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