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Different Ways to Show Learning

A Principal's Reflections

For many of us, our preparation to become teachers consisted of courses focusing on classroom management, lesson design, grading, and proven strategies that had withstood the test of time. We were also exposed to learning style theory and the many benefits it had on meeting the diverse needs of students. Kirschner, P. Willingham, 2010.

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OPINION: Why are schools that predominately serve black and brown students consistently underfunded?

The Hechinger Report

It was clear to me that, in most cases, if your school was just a traditional neighborhood school, located in a poor neighborhood and/or not classified as a focused school for high-performing students, funding and educational opportunities were scarce. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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Fighting Teacher Stress

The Hechinger Report

About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank. The biggest reason non-retiring teachers leave the classroom, the report noted, is dissatisfaction at work (55 percent).

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. In Avoyelles in 2017-18, in addition to the high turnover rates, about 20 percent of the instructors either weren’t certified in the subject they were teaching or weren’t certified at all.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

ED Surge

Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I But through research and conversations with leaders at schools and the university, she discovered that a prohibition on paying teacher-candidates was more a tradition than a rock-solid rule, and one that it could be changed. Why are they leaving?

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What is evidence-based education?

Jonathan Firth

Focusing on the example of homework, a traditional view might be that the teacher should allocate whatever they judge to be useful, or whatever is just ‘the way it’s done’ (or whatever is lying around the office, is quick to mark, or is in the textbook/revision guide!). Accessed 14 May 2017 at [link] Cooper, H., Higgins, S.