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WEBNew Initiative Aims to Strengthen Democracy in School Elections. Austin, Boyd & Tran: Cornerstone Project seeks to rebuild trust in institutions, decrease polarization and ensure all kids get a quality education. Ben Austin, Sandy Boyd & Doannie Tran. ‘Brown’ Banned School Segregation. In 1974, ‘Milliken’ Made It Harder to Stop.
So Your School Wants to Ban Cellphones. Now What? – The 74
WEBAug 5, 2024 · In New York City, where Chancellor David Banks is currently hammering out the details of a ban expected next year, some teachers prefer Yondr because it takes them out of the enforcement business: Students lock up their phones in a pouch when they come to school in the morning and can’t remove them until they leave in the afternoon.. Vinny Corletta, a Bronx English teacher, used to work in a ...
‘Astonishing’ Absenteeism, Trauma Rates Root of Academic Crisis
WEBJun 23, 2024 · Alaska, Arizona, Washington D.C., and Oregon saw the highest chronic absenteeism rates, between 42 and 46%. Idaho, Louisiana, New Jersey and Washington saw the lowest, with between 4 and 18% of kids chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, the latest available data. Several New England states that invest heavily in …
How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
WEBSep 14, 2023 · A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...
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Map: In Decade Since Sandy Hook, Nearly 500 Killed in Mass
WEBDec 6, 2022 · Mass Shootings Since Newtown. The map includes shootings where gunmen opened fire indiscriminately in populated areas and killed four or more people. It captures the period between Dec. 14, 2012 — the day of the Sandy Hook massacre — and June 25, 2022, the day President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan gun bill.
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WEB74 Investigation Lays Bare Schools’ Scarcity Mindset Toward Immigrant Students. In refusing to enroll a 19-year-old newcomer, hundreds of schools cling to a wrongheaded notion that immigrants are a drain on the nation. Conor P. Williams.
‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create the versions of The Oregon Trail that most kids have played since.
How America’s Largest School Choice Program Is Empowering
WEBAug 23, 2023 · How America’s Largest School Choice Program Is Empowering Entrepreneurial Parents and Teachers Across Florida Analysis: Policies like Florida’s HB 1 broaden parents’ school options, fuel entrepreneurship & show how greater freedom can promote social harmony.
74 Interview: Time ≠ Learning — Tim Knowles on Scrapping the …
WEBSep 5, 2023 · It is the system. What it is, fundamentally, is the conflation of time and learning. It’s the suggestion that X number of minutes equals learning. The problem is, that it basically ignores everything we’ve learned in the last 100 years about what knowledge is and how it’s acquired.
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