ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. That's what I do.

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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down.

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Education Charter School High School Critical Thinking 121

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Shapiro: Years ago, while working in a charter school in New York City focused on using technology in the classroom, I met Katie Salen Tekinba?. She was opening a public school in the city, modeled on game-based learning. We would say “play” or “critical thinking” or “computer science.”

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Charter School Educational Technology Critical Thinking Tradition 117

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

In Pat Deklotz’s district in Wales, Wisconsin, students can help design their own learning; they can enroll in one of the district’s four dynamic and innovative charter schools, for example, or engage in curriculum that delivers instruction differently or closes skills gaps.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We We take the tests.

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school. Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Gabriella Okparaoko was accepted at two high-ranking college-prep charter schools.

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High School Economics Museum Charter School 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2020

president have used public charter schools as a punching bag over the past several months. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders , in particular, have called for ending federal funding for new public charter schools. ” As a parent of two public charter school students in Newark, New Jersey, I am disappointed.

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Charter School Public School Critical Thinking Tradition 98