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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

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While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Its physically, emotionally and psychologically demanding work, and we provide no respite, from a system or policy level, for this, she adds.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

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According to the nonprofit group Second Nature, only about 12 universities are carbon neutral. But I do think increasingly you are seeing K-12 trying to engage students in how they can be a part of the solution — and students are demanding that. Why can’t SUNY and other universities move faster to reduce their carbon footprint?

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How Schools Can Better Support Military Children and Families

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In recent years, our schools have become increasingly aware of the unique needs of military children, whose parents deploy and sometimes spend months and years away from home, moving six to nine times on average in their K-12 education.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says.

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Colleges start looking for ways to house and feed their students who are homeless

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In a survey, 12% of community college and 9% of university students reported they were homeless. “I’ve The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z The housing authority pays K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I

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‘A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids?

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Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. For younger kids, in particular, missing out on play with peers could take a toll.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

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So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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