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

ED Surge

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

The Hechinger Report

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea. But the extra time was coupled with other school reforms, such as teacher evaluations, and it was generally impossible to tell how much the extra time alone was making a difference.

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

Absolutely not,” said Megan Benay, senior national director of data systems and strategy at Great Oaks Charter Schools, a network of charter schools that focuses on preparing kids for college through personalized tutoring. “As Colleen Collins, school director at CICS West Belden, works with students.

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

The Hechinger Report

Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field. Before digging into the Fordham Institute’s quantitative analysis, I want to explain why cognitive scientists think that background knowledge is so important in reading comprehension.

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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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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. They share impressive results.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

Some nights, Duggan faced four hours of homework after a day of school and dancing that stretched into the evening, “I would just break down crying and saying, ‘I can’t do this anymore!’ ” she recalled. She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class.