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The dangers of attempting to ‘Instant Pot’ educational progress

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Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. Florida is actively looking at removing graduation requirements which include passing a 10th grade English Language Arts assessment and a statewide algebra test.

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How we turned around our English language learner (ELL) program

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Demographics: West Broward High School , located in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. Related: Teachers: English learners need resources, support.

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How Many English Learners Graduate From High School? It Depends Where They Live

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When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. Then we have the children of immigrants that were born here, and thus inherited a language from their family.” Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. A system in which many of their teachers, myself included, speak only English. I want my teacher to know I’m Smart in Swahili.”

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

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ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia.

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School system makes world languages available to military and ELL families through digital access program

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Tennessee’s Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) is on a mission to bring language learning resources to its diverse community and student body of more than 33,500. To improve and broaden language learning resources for its students and community, CMCSS today announced it has partnered with Rosetta Stone Inc.

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BIOZONE’s High School Biology for Texas achieves Top Marks

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It is the perfect complement to the four other titles we have developed for Texas high school science programs (including AP and IB). Biology for Texas has been specifically written for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Science (High School Biology). An equipment list is provided.