eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide. Graves, Rachel A.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

She also pointed to a research study conducted by the school — with The Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education at the University of San Diego — that reported greater feelings of belonging and self-esteem among students. But that study did not track academic outcomes or chronic absence rates. So does the model work?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Related: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade Number two: Youth ambassador opportunities that develop leadership and advocacy skills. Advocacy efforts need to include and be led by youth, but that means we need support from the adults who are leading these conversations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Rivera also serves as the Past President of the Board of Directors for the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), a nonpartisan organization of public officials who head state departments of elementary and secondary education. Dr. Frank Rodriguez, Director, Region 7 Southeast.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In a study, Powell posed that question to children at the end of third grade, when they should have been able to answer it easily. Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Literacy coach Melissa Knapp works in a first grade classroom at Harpeth Valley Elementary in Nashville. Sonya Thomas, co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL and a supporter of the law, said Tennessee’s renewed focus on reading was a long time coming, though her own children are now too old to benefit from it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

This insight was among those released today by NWEA in an overview of current research studies that examined K-8 student progress during a typical school year (non pandemic) and over the summer. English Learners (ELs) — A third research study looked at achievement and growth for K – 4 for ELs. public schools.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. Older children have access to these solutions, so why not offer the opportunity for young learners?

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Other advocacy groups have laid out different priorities for reading instruction. Hundreds of studies are pointing us in this direction, but they are not pointing us to ‘buy this curriculum.’” Advocacy groups like JerseyCAN have made universal screeners and parental notification key parts of their platform. It is brain science.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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N2Y

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Consider these questions when preparing younger elementary students to attend an IEP meeting: What do you like about school? For older elementary and middle school students, try asking some of these questions to help them learn to lead: Describe some of the challenges you face in school. What are you good at? What is hard for you?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. EVERETT, Wash. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Credit: Getty Images. until 5:00 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education. Related: Two percent of teachers are black men. A city is trying to recruit more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

he told his mother that the National Institutes of Health had awarded him a postdoctoral fellowship to study dyslexia, a condition he’d long suspected he had. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. “He The studies came just as the U.S. In 2004, as a new Ph.D., Up to around 20 percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ron DeSantis challenged the College Board’s AP African American Studies course, he inspired others to follow suit with flagrant concessions to institutional racism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. It must be resisted. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Mims has helped develop similar models in Florida and Texas.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Achievement was lower for all student groups in fall 2021; however, as our data have illuminated before , historically marginalized students and students in high-poverty schools were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades studied.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

That affects the pathways students pick in college: A smaller share of Black and Latino students earn degrees in a STEM field than in other degree programs, according to a recent Pew Research study. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2019

Success in school was like that when grades were the barometer and studying harder was the tool. ” You notice in neither of these definitions is there anything about academics, playing sports, or studying hard. And with home advocacy, SEL will work better, faster, and more effectively. Why teach SEL in schools?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. These high-achieving students would likely have graduated college in much higher numbers without any dual enrollment courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

adults regretting the degrees they earned, the institutions they attended and/or their fields of study, and about 6 million jobs at risk for so-called degree inflation by employers. Students need more exposure, more support and more direction, starting as early as elementary school. trillion in national student debt, half of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood Elementary School for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. 12 The reviews find that many studies lack scientific rigor. Nov 20, 2023).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Miguel Hernandez, who came to Los Angeles four years ago knowing only his Zapotecan dialect and neither Spanish nor English, is now headed to California State University at Northridge to study computer science. He will be the first in his family to go to college. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Dawud (left) and his brother Musa listen to their Muslim studies instructor. That is a huge problem.” proficient or better in English and 20.4%

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