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Engage Students with Authentic Learning at Home

Digital Promise

Because students know that their work could be featured on the school’s social media pages, they are motivated by the prospect of that authentic audience. It’s been a huge culture builder at our school; all the students want to be a part of it,” said Sorrells. Opportunities for Authentic Connections are Everywhere.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. She liked the people and the culture and the history. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

“Like CPR, that you may have learned in health class, and like the Heimlich maneuver, this is a basic life-saving skill we’re hoping to share with you today,” Morris told students assembled in a social studies classroom, “because it very well could save a life.”. She started off with a list of myths. He said kids need more resources.

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