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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

There is also a robust research base to validate its importance. for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies. The valuable information, in many cases, aligns with what the research has said constitutes good feedback. Research says good feedback is targeted, specific, timely.

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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. It starts at the top with leadership. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have found that students in diverse schools can become less prejudiced and more empathetic, and may work harder. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example. Still, tensions occasionally erupted between white and black students.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” Meanwhile, years of research underscore what the Coleman Report pointed to 50 years ago, a real correlation between segregation and an educational achievement gap along lines of class and race. By 1977, the U.S.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

And research shows teaching people to intervene does lower suicide rates. “If Research shows that training teachers and staff helps, but it has limitations. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. The goal is to offer hope. National hotlines can have long wait times and can’t refer callers directly to local resources.

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