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JUNE 28, 2015

To make matters worse many states, districts, and schools made knee-jerk reactions when the budget ax came down a few years and cut traditional hands-on courses such as wood shop, agriculture, metal shop, and cooking. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.

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More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

During my first visit to the high school in August, I spent the entire day visiting classrooms and then providing feedback to the admin team. The growth story of Charles Carpenter is one of many in the Corinth School District. Following the protocol described above, I facilitated coaching days.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Students miss school for reasons ranging from anxiety to unstable living conditions, said Jason Jones, a cultural success coach at San Carlos High School. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP

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JANUARY 13, 2025

Fuchs and his co-authors reviewed a 1991 analysis of this data, called the National Longitudinal Transition Study , and noted that it initially reported that high school students with disabilities learned more when they learned alongside their general education peers. Fuchs is concentrating on academic outcomes.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Participants will also have the opportunity to attend a variety of makerspace-focused sessions, and learn from colleagues at schools that have successfully implemented makerspaces on their campuses, including Clark Burnett, a 4th grade teacher from Lang Ranch Elementary School in Thousand Oaks, CA.

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MARCH 11, 2025

States, on the other hand, establish high school graduation requirements and provide broad instructional guidance through learning standards. For most K-12 students, civics is a one and done single-semester high school course. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Some researchers have suggested paying strong math teachers more to work at high-poverty schools, but that would also require the renegotiation of union contracts in many cities. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber. For many students, middle school is too late.”

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Even though schools have integrated racially, they have become segregated by SES.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades. If you’re a teacher yourself, you know how impressionable students can be.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These differences in thinking play out in how flexible students are with numbers in early elementary school. But elementary school teachers often arent trained well on the evidence base for best practices in teaching number sense.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack.

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MAY 10, 2022

At Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC), a Career and Technical Education (CTE) school district in Arizona, high school students and adult learners go through rigorous programs to become ready for in-demand careers. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School , in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There, an innovative teaching model has taken hold, and is spreading to other schools in the district and beyond. 18, 2022, in Mesa, Arizona.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

More elementary school students may be better at decoding words, but they have to make sense of those words to do well on the NAEP. Another possibility, according to assessment expert Marion, is that being able to read words is important, but its not enough to do well on the NAEP, which is a test of comprehension.

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MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. That’s ambitious.

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MARCH 24, 2024

I have a closer view of the effects of school board decisions than most school board members. Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. Take, for instance, Glendale Union High School District. Agua Fria Union High School District, meanwhile, moved in the opposite direction.

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APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem. We have a responsibility.”

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MARCH 17, 2019

Eric Sheninger I remember back in 2012 when we began to implement blended learning strategies at my former high school. Blended learning is where students use tech to have control over path, place, and pace. At the time the flipped approach was all the rage and best suited for the resources we had and the age group of our kids.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

I’ve taught high school math in Texas for the last 16 years, and I wear the epithet of “math guy” proudly. Research shows a clear link between students’ postsecondary success and the highest level of math they took in high school. To achieve at the postsecondary level, they need to take advanced high school math courses.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active. DeLisha Sylvester (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): I am the mother of two children who are six and a half years apart. Jeff Wayman (Middle and High School Parent): We’re focusing on intrinsic learning.

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APRIL 26, 2021

start time for high schools and middle schools so that teens can get sufficient sleep. Schools have been slow to heed the doctors’ advice. high schools start the day at 8:30 a.m. The average start time for high school across the nation remains a half hour earlier, at 8:00 a.m. on average.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We came to you as the principal of our elementary school in Minnesota and said, “She’s ready for something more.” One year in elementary school the best we could do was a self-paced, ‘teach yourself’ model with occasional check-ins with the Gifted and Talented teacher. And then you and your teachers did exactly that.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

When I was in elementary school, my father, a master carpenter and math enthusiast, played a significant role in shaping my love and curiosity for math. I was fortunate to discover applied statistics in graduate school. Related: Become a lifelong learner. Sadly, I was learning to hate math, despite my early love for it.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Studies document that weak readers in elementary school are less likely to make it to high school graduation, and they’re also more likely to struggle academically in upper grades. Many districts have started giving elementary school teachers “ science of reading” training they never had in teacher-prep programs.

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JUNE 19, 2024

About 80 percent of the nearly 600 students in the school district qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty. English teacher Rebecca McElhannon goes over a short story with her ninth grade class at Decatur High School in Arkansas. The same was true in similar districts.

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MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. At Union High School, an Algebra II position remained vacant for more than a year.

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