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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. I wish every school was resourced with a full-time, certified school librarian.

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. They’re average.”.

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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

The Hechinger Report

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis. The 1969 desegregation order had another effect.

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Lessons from a virtual school exemplar

The Hechinger Report

It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district. We needed something that wasn’t like a crazy, private school.” During face-to-face teaching, he designed a lesson, delivered it and then tested students on their understanding of it. Learning from Lockdown.

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The district where kids beg to go to summer school

The Hechinger Report

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I Fast forward to today. This is about personalizing the learning experience, not the expectations for kids.”.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

For fellow senior Raoul Sandoval, similar warnings came from family members who lived and worked in the school’s Lower West Side, Pilsen neighborhood. Knowing that he had always excelled academically, they urged him to apply for a scholarship to a private school instead. All the traditional method does is sort students.