The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
On a recent morning, the children used plastic red and yellow dots for a counting exercise: One student tossed the coin-sized dots onto a cookie sheet while another hid her eyes. In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Two kindergarten students at Hilltop Elementary in Aston, Pennsylvania.,
ViewSonic Education
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
Experience tells us there are three key features that, taken together, contribute to successful SEL and whole-child outcomes in elementary and middle school. Sixty-three percent said the use of video helped increase the relevancy and quality of instructional materials. That’s the bad news. The good news? How is that represented?
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Edsurge
JULY 31, 2020
According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts. Savannah’s experiences were not atypical.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. But science evolved.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2020
The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2021
The “menu” will also include social and emotional supports and instruction by trained counselors; art and music lessons; and access to the district’s online textbooks and instructional materials. It will even help students connect with clubs and other extracurricular groups to meet their social needs.
Edsurge
MARCH 30, 2018
Horton, who teaches math and writing to fourth- and fifth-graders at Fremont Elementary School in Springfield, Missouri, says this is the first program that she and a coworker have found that meets their needs for math and writing instruction. She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It It had raised about $4.8
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