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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

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Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” On the 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress , known as the Nation’s Report Card, nearly 70 percent of eighth graders scored below “proficient” and, of those, 30 percent scored “below basic.” “In

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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

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But the ESSER “funding cliff” — the fall deadline for districts to allocate money from the final disbursement of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief grants — isn’t a singular culprit behind the staff cuts that are rolling out around the country. In many cases, that means educator layoffs are coming.

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What 40 Million Messages Tell Us About Parent-Teacher Communication

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The next largest class of messages was what the report calls standard replies — responses like “thank you” or “have a good day” — at 34 percent. For instance, a report from the Carnegie Corporation called engaging with immigrant families essential to students’ academic success. At the elementary level, it was 19 percent.

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ChatGPT Teacher Tips Part 9 – Summarizing

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Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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With Kindergarten Readiness on the Decline, Some Districts Try New Interventions

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Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past.

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

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A report from the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education found that among employers in the Bay State with knowledge of vocational schools, “there was general agreement that vocational school graduates are more job-ready than general education or college preparatory high school graduates.”. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

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They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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