ED Surge
MARCH 10, 2025
Teacher librarian Tasha Squires reported that when given a choice between standard books and large print, her students at ONeill Middle School in Downers Grove, Illinois, chose large print by a 2-to-1 margin. Although large print may not be the standard for textbooks (yet), it has appealed to a wide range of students.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 24, 2020
We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 12, 2024
The discrepancy matters, the white paper says, because inaccurate grades make it harder to figure out which students are prepared for advanced coursework or ready for college. FRPL refers to low-income students whose families qualify for the national free or reduced price lunch program.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Materials for children in the preschool classes, which serve kids ages 3 to 6, and for the elementary and middle school classes, should include purposeful, authentic Montessori items like the infamous “pink tower,” a series of cubes that introduces children to geometry and volume; blue geometric solids and puzzle maps.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
School police “are often increasingly serving that role as school disciplinarian,” she said. In a white paper she co-authored this year, Mooney cited research that connected officers hired through the federal “COPS in Schools” program to a reduction — about 1 percent to 2 percent — in disruptive criminal incidents on campus.
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