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Improving Social-Emotional and Reading Skills

edWeb.net

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Additionally, Bobbi served as a learning facilitator, encouraging students to take ownership of their learning.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Superintendents then leave it up to principals and often parents to decide whether to use corporal punishment on a given student, creating unequal systems of discipline within the same communities and even the same classrooms. Support for paddling is common in Collins, a place where families have deep roots.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kids work alone and in small groups; they sit at tiny desks and on beanbags and sofas scattered around the classroom. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. It looks unlike any school I ever attended.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Salt Lake Tribune : “Lawmaker: Utah ‘s veteran educators may need to ’die off ’ before technology fills classrooms.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” The lawmaker in question: Republican State Senator Howard Stephenson.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via The Guardian : “ Essays for sale : the booming online industry in writing academic work to order.” .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.