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The best books I read in 2021

Dangerously Irrelevant

I read some great (and not so great) books in 2021! Here are my top few (and why)… My top book for 2021 is Difference Making at the Heart of Learning , by Tom Vander Ark & Emily Liebtag. I can’t believe I hadn’t somehow heard of Marko Kloos before November of 2021! Books I read in July 2021. Related Posts.

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Arkansas Economics Challenge 2024

ACRE

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. School: * School District: * Subject & Grade Level * Ex: 9th grade Economics, 11th grade AP Civics and Econ Competition Category: * Which division will your students be participating in?

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Arkansas Economics Challenge 2023

ACRE

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. 2022 2021 It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy. Want to see some samples of past student submissions & competition topics?

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2021 AP Testing is Done! What now?

Michelle Wood

Looking for something to do after AP Economics testing is over? The post 2021 AP Testing is Done! Now that the AP testing window is done (or almost done – the third testing window is the first two weeks of June), what do we do with our students? I usually ask them what they want to learn about and go from there.

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PROOF POINTS: Pace of learning back to normal during the 2021-22 pandemic school year but student achievement lags far behind, data shows

The Hechinger Report

The good news, according to the latest achievement data, is that learning resumed at a more typical pace during the 2021-22 school year that just ended. Students who completed eighth grade in the spring of 2022 fell 18 percent further behind in math compared to 2021. The long-term economic and social costs are enormous if we fail.

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Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra

The Hechinger Report

While 25 percent of white students passed algebra in eighth grade in 2021, only 13 percent of Black students did, according to the most recent data from the U.S. It’s also not economically practical for many low-income middle schools to offer an Algebra 1 course when only a handful of students are advanced enough to take it.

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What Parents and Child Care Providers Want Their Elected Leaders to Know

ED Surge

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic Instability Has Increased Many families report that it has become more difficult to meet their basic needs, particularly in the areas of health care and housing. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

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