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Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading

eSchool News

A priority was to give students seamless connection to the digital collections of the Lexington Public Library that serves our local area. The platform we selected—OverDrive Education’s Sora reading app —aligns with our public library system for easy access to its wealth of digital materials.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. Portland Public Schools is among the dozens of districts in an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of reopening plans that have published details around outdoor learning. between 1900 and 1920.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. who are interested in establishing a makerspace in their libraries.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. Students in Texas are supporting a state law that would limit what schools can censor, and the American Library Association hosts Banned Websites Awareness Day each fall.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

An analysis of Mississippi public school textbooks by the Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows that, for at least some grades, all of the state’s 148 school districts rely on textbooks published before the model standards appeared as part of their social studies material. In contrast, James K.

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Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve

The Hechinger Report

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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