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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.

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Building Vocabulary to Improve Reading

Digital Promise

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.