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All posts tagged "Education and Training"
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821► ReportsLearning curve: Lessons from the tutoring revolution in public education
A new report discusses three different approaches to sustain new, successful tutoring initiatives.
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964NewsRoom scans & eye detectors: Robocops are watching your kids take online exams
Are young children being monitored by AI without informed consent? Are room scans legal? The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology found...
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1.0KNewsStudents with disabilities more likely to be suspended for disorderly conduct and insubordination
Categories like these are cited hundreds of thousands of times yearly to justify suspensions.
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911NewsQ&A: This Colorado teacher survived Columbine. Here’s how she prioritizes trauma-informed practices.
Heather Martin discusses how her experience at Columbine influenced her education and her teaching.
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1.1KNewsWhat happens when suspensions get suspended?
Students are benefiting from a decade-old ban on suspensions for ‘willful defiance.'
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880NewsTennessee is ramping up penalties for student threats. Research shows that’s not the best way to keep schools safe.
Some experts say the measures can counteract a crucial tool for safety: threat assessments.
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1.0KNewsLetting vouchers fund Indiana microschools could spur innovation, but also a fight for cash
Indiana has gone from a handful of microschools a few years ago to 45.
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987NewsCase study: How 2 teachers use AI behind the scenes to build lessons & save time
Teachers can avoid hours of preparation by using artificial intelligence to craft a plan.
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751NewsThe influential conservative group making it harder for Idaho districts to fix their schools
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has begun targeting local bond and levy elections.
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549NewsMany states don’t educate people sentenced to life. Now some are coming home.
Imprisoned as teenagers, middle-aged men and women are suddenly being released with no education.
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613NewsAmid clamor from protesters, Tennessee Senate passes bill to arm some teachers
The law — that most teachers and parents oppose — now goes to a House vote.
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570NewsRural students’ access to Wi-Fi is in jeopardy as pandemic-era resources recede
The study found that of rural students still lack high-speed broadband internet at home.
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1.3KNews‘Distrust, Detection & Discipline:’ New data reveals teachers’ ChatGPT crackdown
As students increasingly turn to generative AI to complete schoolwork, educators grow more concerned.
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1.1K► ReportsUp in the air: Educators juggling the potential of generative AI with detection, discipline, and distrust
Educators have now had the opportunity to regroup and address generative AI in education.
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801NewsLouisiana House backs moving public money to private schools
Proponents have framed the proposed education savings accounts as the hallmark of parental choice.
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889NewsVague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
At public schools, students are suspended, even expelled, for ambiguous and highly subjective reasons.
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542NewsChurch v. state: Oklahoma’s high court to hear precedent-setting religious charter school case
The case examines whether publicly funded charter schools can explicitly endorse religion.
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840NewsLearning science might help kids read better
Integrating science lesson knowledge into the reading lessons improved reading scores for elementary students.
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayThe need to reboot and reemphasize civics instruction has never been greater
The nation’s citizenship woes grow more consequential as people’s faith in democracy itself falters.
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1.1KGuest Opinion EssayIt’s time for a ceasefire in the civics wars
Can we bridge our nation's divisions about what happens in classrooms, textbooks and assessments?
