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

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Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. 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. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

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Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge curriculum. That’s hard.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. Yet reading achievement has remained flat and low for the last 20 years.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

“Just think about identifying the explicit skills that students need to work on and the plan that we have to help them achieve a mastery of that explicit skill.”. A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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

The Hechinger Report

Wilson Charter School in New Orleans and quietly made connections with children. Soon, he became an indispensable part of their school day. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.