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Another School Shooting — and an $8 Million Bid to Stop Them. There’s an innate tension between school safety and students’ civil rights. The 74’s Mark Keierleber keeps you up to date on the news you need to know. Mark Keierleber. School (In)Security.
From Trauma to Turnout: Inside David Hogg’s $8M Bid to Elect …
Sep 5, 2024 — This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on gun violence.You can sign up for its newsletters here.. In a video posted to YouTube, 24-year-old school shooting survivor David Hogg points to a whiteboard and outlines a five-step plan to reshape America.. Ever since Hogg survived the 2018 Valentine’s Day shooting at his Parkland, Florida ...
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Niemi: CASEL Is Updating the Most Widely Recognized Definition …
Dec 15, 2020 — In the 26 years since CASEL introduced the term “social and emotional learning,” the research and practice of SEL have grown tremendously. Today, educators talk about SEL in many ways and hear about a multitude of strategies for implementation in schools and classrooms. As the creators of the most widely cited SEL definitions, CASEL now […]
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
Mar 19, 2024 — A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and ... - The 74
Dec 12, 2023 — Forty years ago, the release of A Nation at Risk(ANAR)led to what is known today as the modern school reform movement. With its calls for increased academic rigor, more productive use of instructional time, more effective teaching and more impactful leadership, ANARset policy and practice changes in motion at every level of the education system.
Analysis: Schools Are Facing a Surge of Failing Grades During the ...
Feb 8, 2021 — I n a year of educational crisis, fall report cards brought more troubling news.. Failing grades are on the rise across the country — especially for students who are learning online. Worrying data points are emerging across the country: In New Mexico, more than 40 percent of middle and high school students were failing at least one class as of late October.
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Reinventing High School: 8 Common Trends at America’s Most Innovative Campuses. Greg Toppo & Emmeline Zhao. September 20, 2023. future of high school. Credit Hours Are a Relic of the Past. How States Must Disrupt High School — Now. Russlynn Ali & Timothy F.C. Knowles. September 11, 2023.
Exclusive: Homer Learning to Make Its Award-Winning Early
Apr 18, 2016 — A scan of the iTunes store turns up dozens of cute and colorful early literacy apps. It’s much harder for a parent to know how to choose among them. Stephanie Dua believed she could help. Her company, Homer Learning, created an award-winning reading app that, according to researchers, significantly improves reading skills in children who […]
Free SAT Boot Camp & Tutoring Platform Is Getting Noticed by …
Nov 1, 2022 — Free tutoring. Twelve states have taken notice, as have high schools and universities that increasingly see volunteering for Schoolhouse.world as a desirable credential in their applicants. Launched in 2020, the platform offers high schoolers free Zoom-based tutoring in math, as well as SAT and Advanced Placement test prep.