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Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive | Schools and classrooms across the nation need to implement systemic changes that support personalized and rigorous learning based on equitable practices, a group of education, business, advocacy and philanthropic leaders ...
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Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report | One of the only recent studies following graduates of public pre-K programs into middle school delivered some positive news for those seeking to expand such opportunities: Students in Georgia ...
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Joseph Krajcik and Barbara Schneider, The Conversation | The big idea Project-based learning – a teaching approach whereby students explore and solve real-world challenges – can improve third graders’ scientific knowledge as well as their ...
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Ben Tracy, CBS Evening News | "Don't Shoot Guns, Shoot Cameras," a program based in Washington, D.C., teaches underserved youth camera skills to keep them away from gang violence.  Social curriculum objectives: Introduce and develop ...
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Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive | The American Jobs Plan outlined by the Biden administration Wednesday includes a number of proposals focused on K-12 schools, in addition to the promise of growing the nation's economy and ...
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Roblox hosts more students every month than all school-going children in the U.S., U.K., and Canada combined. Hamza Mudassir, Fast Company | Roblox, which recently made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange, has ...
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Whitney Miller, WCPO | At Northwest Local School District, elementary school students don’t get sent straight to the principal’s office for misbehavior. They’re more likely to be asked about their feelings — an approach that ...
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The U.S. Department of Education held a virtual National Safe School Reopening Summit on Wednesday for teachers, broader school and district staff, and education leaders to discuss COVID-19's impact on K-12, and to share their ...
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Virtual Event, Sat, April 24, 2021 (11 AM – 3 PM ET) - free and open to public. Digital Promise | A diverse group of 55 students from across the country have come together to ...
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When the COVID-19 pandemic forced many school districts to abruptly shift their education to a distance-learning model, teachers and administrators had to adapt their curriculum and teaching styles to a virtual setting. The challenge was ...
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A group of students at Amity Elementary known as the Website Wizards have been diligently working on a project to give K-6th grade students access to a virtual library featuring student authors, students reading some ...
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Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive | Using students’ unique cultures as a basis for expected behaviors can help reduce discipline based on subjective decisions, said education experts who spoke during a virtual session at the Council ...
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Danielle Dreilinger, The Hechinger Report | Gifted education has been trying to solve its racism problem for years. The National Association for Gifted Children, or NAGC, reaffirmed its commitment to the issue after the Black ...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Alignment with Operational Strategy for K–12 Schools through Phased Prevention includes: Plain language changes: mitigation to prevention and social distancing to physical distancing.Revised physical distancing recommendations to reflect ...
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Kara Arundel, K-12 Dive | The safe reopening of schools for in-person learning — with the use of mitigation efforts — is a critical step in addressing the physical, academic and emotional stress students have ...
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Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat | A massive stream of federal money is on its way to schools across the country. On Thursday, President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law. The package includes ...
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Ariana Figueroa, Ohio Capital Journal | WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released updated guidance to provide educators a science-based plan for reopening K-12 schools. The agency said it cannot force schools ...
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Miami University | During an average week, Christopher Perry, a Miami University graduate student in the educational psychology department, works directly alongside professional school psychologists to help boost the academic, social, and emotional success of ...
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Frank R. Castelli and Mark A. Sarvary - Ecology and Evolution | Enrollment in courses taught remotely in higher education has been on the rise, with a recent surge in response to a global pandemic ...
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Grace Hauck, USA TODAY | On Tuesday, two epidemiologists and a researcher from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, writing that "accumulating ...
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Bekah McNeel, The 74 | San Antonio teachers are combatting pandemic learning loss with a surgical approach to keep young students at grade level, focusing on a core curriculum of must-have skills in reading and ...
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Tana Weingartner, WVXU | The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library are partnering to make a recorded performance of Martin's Dream available Jan. 18 - 22. The one-man show ...
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Elizabeth D. Steiner, Laura Stelitano, Andy Bogart, Sophie Meyers, RAND | One way that schools and districts can maximize teacher learning is through academic summer programs for students that also offer PL opportunities for teachers ...
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