Mon.Aug 14, 2023

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Six Awesome Back to School Social Studies Ideas

History Tech

I was on a quick Zoom call the other night when of the high school teachers casually mentioned that his first day back with students had gone pretty well. Seriously!? Cue the jaw drop.

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Embracing Change Through LERs: A Testimonial of Transitional Growth

Digital Promise

Digital Promise conducted interviews with learners and workers who were actively experiencing learning transitions to explore how LERs could be used to support them along their journeys

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A New Way to Personalize Learning, Thanks to AI

ED Surge

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. For years, educational technology has promised to fill that gap, but that promise has remained largely unfulfilled.

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For many Mississippi students, summer meant one last chance to be promoted to fourth grade

The Hechinger Report

JACKSON, Miss. — Each year, more than 30,000 third graders in Mississippi gear up to take a statewide reading test, part of the state’s Literacy-Based Promotion Act. This story also appeared in Mississippi Today A little more than 75 percent of students passed the test on their first try earlier this year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

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5 Strategies to Create Spaces that Spark Interest and Investment

Achieve the Core

The walls of your classroom create the learning environment your students enter every day and communicate the classroom culture you hope to create. Even if you aren’t interested in making your classroom Pinterest-ready—you can probably picture one of those classrooms now—you can still create a space that sparks interest in content and investment in your classroom community.

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The Supreme Court affirmative action decision left a head-scratching exemption for military academies. Here’s why it matters

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: At the bottom of page 22 of the Supreme Court’s lengthy opinion barring the use of race in college admissions , is a curious three-senten

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Redundancy Trap with the ACT

Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog

These can be sneaky. Beware of "redundancy" using different words that mean the same to describe or explain one thing.

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OPINION: Lessons from Mississippi: Is there really a miracle here we can all learn from?

The Hechinger Report

The phrase “Mississippi Miracle” trips off the tongue. Who doesn’t like alliteration? More pointedly, who doesn’t like rising test scores? In recent months, the phrase has been associated with Mississippi’s performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card. In 2022, Mississippi’s fourth graders eligible for free lunch (a marker used to estimate poverty) performed significantly higher on the NAEP reading test than similarly low-income childre

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PROOF POINTS: A research update on social-emotional learning in schools

The Hechinger Report

A 2023 meta-analysis of hundreds social-emotional interventions in schools finds that they generally improve school climate, student well-being and academic achievement, but the measurement of soft skills, such as emotional intelligence, remains controversial. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education ov

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Who picks school curriculum? Idaho law hands more power to parents

The Hechinger Report

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — When J.D. Davis, the department chair of English at Twin Falls High School, was told last year that half of the committee he was leading to pick new texts and materials for the district’s English Language Arts classrooms would be parents and community members, he objected. This story also appeared in The Guardian “I said, ‘I’m not going to have parents involved!