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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Together we learned basic concepts like capillary action (blood flow) and how to dissect (using chicken legs). Related: We must boost elementary science education.

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

Edsurge

Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a teacher at the early learning center All Five, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, May 26, 2023. When students are chronically absent, no matter what the issue is, you're missing out on learning," she said. She was absent from one class 28 days during the 2022-23 school year. It's a valid thing.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. This unique 50-50 split allows students to participate in day-long projects and learning experiences in their communities without having to worry about the next class period cutting their time short. So does the U.S. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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Cae Announces Multiyear Partnership with Project Lead The Way 

eSchool News

The partnership, which commences with the 2023-2024 school year and continues through 2028, will leverage CAE’s best practices and decades of experience in developing high-quality innovative assessments. To learn more about CAE’s performance-based assessments and instruction for higher order skills, visit cae.org.

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OPINION: The simple steps that encourage young learners to break equity barriers

The Hechinger Report

The class of 2028 will, no doubt, have a maze of postsecondary options to help them unlock their dreams and ambitions. Higher education is the key to becoming that doctor or teacher someday, and children can begin to understand that as early as elementary school, which is the time when they are most engaged in their schooling.

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Too hot for school

The Hechinger Report

Palm Springs Unified District officials haven’t budged, but administrators elsewhere in the country are shifting school calendars to keep kids from commuting to school in high heat and learning in sweltering classrooms, according to a new Hechinger story from writer Erin Rode. Not at first.

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028. He applied early decision to Union College in upstate New York; earlier this month, he learned via email that he did not get in. She immediately signed up Ashley, and later, Emily.

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