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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Champion of Education Award: Lisa Gonzales-Solomon, Principal, Madison Elementary. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program. Driving Innovation Award: Hyundai Motor America.

Education 105
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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

The Hechinger Report

The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

When the fledgling club first traveled to Atlanta in 2011 for JTF, it was invited to perform on the festival’s main stage, in front of 6,000 people, and as iTheatrics founder Timothy Allen McDonald put it, “they got a standing ovation and brought down the house.” Most high schools, he said, already have some sort of theater program.)

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Twenty-one and in high school

The Hechinger Report

This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary. He reused the name when he started Bronx Arena in 2011. I gravitated toward them.”

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. Only a third of students with disabilities who enroll in four-year colleges graduate within eight years, according to a 2011 federal study. Sign up for our newsletter. MONROVIA, Calif.

Education 101
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April 27th - Pam Moran and Ira Socol: From Scientifically-Managed to Community-Driven Schools

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. psid=2011-04-27.1619.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 This webinar is sponsored and coordinated by TIE Colorado. Log in at [link].