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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As it was, Italy also had similar issues with distance learning. In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access. Scarpellini, F., Cartabia, M.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Schools are working out how to support educators to implement student IEPs in previously uncharted territory , drafting the rules as they go. Families are making choices about what to prioritize during distance learning while navigating unique demands of work, family and health.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How do you make the weather when it’s raining on one part of your virtual school and not on the other? In distance learning, the way you dress, walk or project your voice aren’t as relevant. You don’t wing anything,” says Guye Turner, who leads a middle school in Washington, D.C.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is not surprising as the first few years of school are when learners build the foundations for literacy. We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT). –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

This is not surprising as the first few years of school are when learners build the foundations for literacy. We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT). –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Jamie Wong Baesa , a middle school math teacher who hasn’t seen her students’ faces since March. Geri Zamora , a high school history teacher who nearly lost a student to COVID-19. Right: The desk area where she taught during remote learning. Instead, her middle school assigned a different subject for each day of the week.

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APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education.

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