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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

On a recent Tuesday, she stood at the back of her cluttered third-grade math classroom, presiding over a set of scales weighed down on one side with two textbooks — 1 kilogram total. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. SAN ANTONIO — Karen Demore booms.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

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After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. Inkeri, you’ve been teaching for 15 years.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. During the same time, the percentage of classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent.

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How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

The Hechinger Report

Teachers and administrators get acquainted at a Border Crossers workshop for educators about discussing race and racism in the classroom. On a rainy Saturday morning this spring, 40 teachers and school administrators sat on folding chairs in the basement of a Brooklyn school for an all-day workshop on how to talk about race in the classroom.

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Better tests don’t lead to better teaching, study finds

The Hechinger Report

public school children in 2001, educators (and parents) have fretted over whether too much class time has been allocated to drilling and preparing students for standardized tests. And, even if you could be a fly on the wall in every classroom in America, one person’s view of a good lesson might differ from another’s.

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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

The Hechinger Report

Annual testing of students became a federal requirement after 2001, and that sometimes affected instruction. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. Then, nearly all U.S.

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The Science of Reading and Early Childhood Literacy

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A leading researcher of early language development and its connection to literacy, Dr. Hollis Scarborough was a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories and in 2001, she developed and published what has become known as Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Scarborough’s Reading Rope. It provides an excellent visual of how the Science of Reading works.