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Teachers Say Parental Engagement Can Make or Break Efforts to Close Learning Gaps

ED Surge

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Forty-six percent of teachers surveyed named lack of family prioritization of academics as the primary reason some students have fallen behind.

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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

ED Surge

Bridging Barriers to Access When it comes to who is participating, white high school students nationally make up 48 percent of high school students and 48 percent of 9-12 computer science students, according to the report. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

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New iCoachTEAM Partnership Sets out to Improve Equity in Middle School Math

Digital Promise

Mathematics achievement is a national challenge, with persistent inequities across K-12 student subpopulations. As a foundation for all STEM disciplines, low math proficiency limits access to economic opportunity, and the failures of the current K-12 education system disproportionately impact students of color.

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The Role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Making Education Available to All

A Principal's Reflections

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. The discussion, which ran from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.,

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. The trouble is, it doesn’t work. Related: Do U.S. 95 , where 1.0

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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

The Hechinger Report

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

The Hechinger Report

Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems. In these places, historical divisions between K-12 school districts, two- and four-year colleges and employers have begun to dissolve.

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