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Why all screen time isn’t created equally

The Hechinger Report

She’s also come up with guidelines based on what a scant – but growing – body of research is finding. Guernsey calls her guidelines the three C’s — for media consumption: content, context, and your child; they come with a series of questions that can be tailored to each child.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

When teachers use tools they find online, they can inadvertently run afoul of privacy and security guidelines. Third-party software can share student data in ways that violate district or state standards. “The teacher’s primary role is student learning, but student privacy isn’t always at the top of their mind,” says Racine.

EdTech 155
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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. School librarians form relationships and connections with every single student and teacher who walks through the doors of that school.

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I Can’t Tell Them What They’ll Do (Classrooms, Justice, and Legacies)

The Jose Vilson

I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. I have guidelines in my classroom, not rules. I’m teaching fully complicated human beings in a subject area that pretends neutrality and simplicity. I thank them and ask for forgiveness when I can.

Classroom 126
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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report–Teacher Project review found just six states that require caretakers to follow clear guidelines on developmentally appropriate learning strategies for children from birth to age 3. The guidelines also cover age-specific goals relating to memory, problem solving, and self and social awareness, among other areas.

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How State Reform in New Hampshire Led to Teacher Autonomy

Edsurge

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. We should not see a gap for the overwhelming majority of students who have disabilities,” she said. But we do.”.