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Four tips from a successful elementary school

The Hechinger Report

In this file photo, a student at a Mississippi elementary school reads during class. Although Governor Phil Bryant is considering taking over Jackson Public Schools, which has struggled to improve student achievement and meet accreditation standards, there are bright spots in the district. Choose as many as you like.

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Open Educational Resources haven’t upended the way that K-12 schools get course materials – yet

The Hechinger Report

In this file photo, students at Piedmont Elementary School get vocabulary practice online. In K-12 schools, however, where open educational resources have been hailed as an opportunity to democratize high-quality curriculum and break the publishing oligopoly, OER has had a slower uptake. Digital OER are free.

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A New Model for Coding in Schools

Digital Promise

But in South Fayette Township School District , Pa., that’s how an after-school program for technology and arts eventually became a national model for incorporating computational thinking into a K-12 curriculum. "Every year, we embed more computational thinking in K-12.”

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How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating

The Hechinger Report

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state. Choose as many as you like.

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Alabama doesn’t want early childhood teachers talking about bias. Researchers say they need to.

The Hechinger Report

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: Late last month, Alabama Gov. In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades.

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Back on the beat: A reporter’s view of early education

The Hechinger Report

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: About 20 years ago, I had a transformative reporting experience when I was assigned to “shadow” a 4-year-old named Jaylen at a Milwaukee preschool.

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Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, paras were nearly three times as effective as volunteer, non-professional tutors with struggling elementary school readers. But in the studies he reviewed, the paras typically had bachelor’s degrees —considerably more education than the job requires in most school districts.

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