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Making Time for Social Studies and Science Without Sacrificing Literacy

TCI

A 2018 national survey found that K-3 teachers spend an average of 89 minutes per day on ELA and 57 minutes on math, but only 18 minutes on science and 16 minutes on social studies. Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. In 2018, 98 percent of K-12 school districts met the FCC’s minimum connectivity target of 100 kilobits-per-second per student in schools. school and library to the internet.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. According to this theory, the brain naturally takes a casual approach to digital texts and devotes less mental work to reading and understanding them thoroughly. Delgado, P.,