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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

eSchool News

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. courses focusing on inclusion or special education, compared to about 11 courses for special education teachers.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Experts and parents widely agree that most students with disabilities do best academically and socially when they are in the same classrooms as their nondisabled peers, and when they are given the same opportunities to plan out their postsecondary lives. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

Edsurge

Making Isn’t Just One Thing We heard from dozens of educators who echoed Kwan’s view over the course of a five month research project to illuminate the experiences and challenges of K-12 educators who incorporate making into their lessons.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

completion of a minimum course of study, content mastery, proficiency on college- and career-ready assessments, etc.) Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards. College and career-ready graduation requirements.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

Librarians should plan programming and provide tools that encourage creativity, collaboration and communication, i.e. STEAM and makerspace activities like code.org courses and digital citizenship curricula like Common Sense Education. Evolve your programming. An achievable roadmap for success This road map is very achievable.