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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

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But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. So then she retired.

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PROOF POINTS: Putting praise to the test

The Hechinger Report

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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Teachers often ask youngsters to learn in ways that exceed even adult-sized attention spans

The Hechinger Report

They collected more than 100,000 observations of student behavior from roughly 1,100 students over the course of a school year. In one subset of 22 charter school classrooms, 29 percent of student behaviors were off task. In other words, the average elementary school student is distracted more than a quarter of the time.

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PROOF POINTS: Borrowing a page from marriage therapy in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict discipline or a more forgiving response where students discuss their grievances with an adult’s guidance, a process called restorative justice. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages.

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

The Hechinger Report

19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. We are often stereotyped as having ‘good classroom management,’” Green said. “So