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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Related: For teachers who fear math, banishing bad memories can help At Brand’s organization, Made for Math , intensive tutoring based on Zecher’s approach often stands in for a lack of school-based support.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

She also learned how to keep students with disabilities on task and break down lessons into smaller, easier bits of information for students who were struggling. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. She was left to figure it out on the job.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

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Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem.

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

And this past school year, dozens of elementary school administrators started training in LETRS, or Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, which teaches them the “science of reading,” including how students learn to decode letters on the page and form meaning from words. They were told to implement them immediately.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

Public Integrity’s analysis also found that students with disabilities have higher rates of homelessness than the rest of their peers in every state except Mississippi, suggesting that a significant share of students who already require additional support attend school uncertain of where they will sleep that night. is shown on Oct.