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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The Stanford initiative launched in 2015, joining a handful of recent efforts to help students contend with misinformation and fake news online—a problem as old as dial-up modems, but now supercharged by social media and partisan news bubbles. High School social studies teacher. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Education Week. Carter, E. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al.

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The Impact of a Teacher

Studies Weekly

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. We know teachers work incredibly hard to create a welcoming, calm, safe space.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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