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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

ED Surge

The Great Renegotiation is coming for schools. According to national data, schools are not facing greater teacher vacancies this year than in years past. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason. So let’s imagine.

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OPINION: 3 reasons that career and technical education doesn’t preclude college

The Hechinger Report

A number of recent articles have highlighted the value of career and technical education (CTE) at the individual and system levels. Students need more exposure, more support and more direction, starting as early as elementary school. Wes McEntee works on a manufacturing machine at Vermont Technical College.

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PROOF POINTS: How a debate over the science of math could reignite the math wars

The Hechinger Report

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents

The Hechinger Report

When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. A New York City parent named Gabriela — who is going by her middle name for this article because her case is still ongoing and she fears retaliation — knows the type of havoc that a call to ACS can wreak on a family.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

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