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WEBThe 74 interviews the top thinkers, policymakers and leaders in American education. College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America's high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers. An Enduring Legacy of the …
How a Free, 24/7 Tutoring Model is Disrupting Learning Loss for …
WEBSep 14, 2023 · A new 24-hour online tutoring service is helping the nation’s most underserved students make huge academic gains — at no cost to them. UPchieve, an ed tech nonprofit, is bringing on volunteer tutors to offer free, on-demand academic and college application support to any U.S. middle or high school student attending a Title I school or ...
Why Are Bullies So Mean? A Psychology Expert Explains Their …
WEBDec 26, 2023 · First, let’s define what bullying is: It’s mean-spirited, harmful behavior by someone with more power or status – like a popular kid at school or a supervisor at work – who repeatedly picks on, harasses, irritates or injures a person with less power or status. Bullying can take many forms – physical, like pushing, shoving and hitting ...
Tracking How 232 Innovative Schools Are Challenging 5 Big …
WEBJan 3, 2022 · This school year, recovery is the name of the game in K-12 education. Although COVID-19 persists, schools have reopened and are focusing on getting students back on track. But plenty of the challenges schools are tackling have long predated COVID. Indeed, schools are not just facing the need to recover from the pandemic — they […]
How Washington, D.C., Is Reimagining High School to Help All
WEBNov 13, 2023 · The kind of flexibility offered to students in D.C. as they chart their own paths is a thoughtful approach based on hard-won insights. Around the country, in places like Phoenix and Madison, Wisconsin, policymakers are sounding alarms and stepping away from how high school has been delivered in the past. Instead, they are …
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WEBThe 74 interviews the top thinkers, policymakers and leaders in American education. College, Career, Learning Recovery: How America's high schools are evolving for the next generation of teenagers. An Enduring Legacy of the …
‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer …
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Teachers began taking notice. The game quickly became MECC’s most popular title. As desktop computers began to sprout in classrooms, MECC spun off a for-profit company that sold millions of copies of The Oregon Trail and other early titles nationwide.. A new generation of coders added graphics, sounds, and music to create …
Exclusive: Analysis — How 18 Top Charter School Networks Are
WEBAug 27, 2020 · Last spring, some of the nation’s most prominent charter networks quickly rolled out remote learning after school closures, including mechanisms that monitored students’ academic progress and gave them access to live lessons. This fast response may have put these charter schools in a strong position to serve students and families …
Analysis: Tracking the NEA’s and AFT’s $43 Million in Donations to …
WEBJan 22, 2020 · Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears most Wednesdays; see the full archive. The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are known as labor unions, advocates for teachers and public school employees, and political powerhouses. But they also are grantmaking institutions. During the 2018-19 school …
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