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

The Hechinger Report

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program. 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. Generating knowledge of academic language among urban middle school students.

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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. Generating knowledge of academic language among urban middle school students.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. Social studies classes shouldn’t frame conflict as a problem, but as a challenge, said Kawashima-Ginsberg. I personally love it because you know what?

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