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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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Louisiana, where I teach, is one of eight states in the country that requires a passing score on standardized tests to receive a diploma. Standardized testing has long been protested by educators, parents and students due to its racist origins.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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The answer, as he explains in “ The Checklist Manifesto ,” is a multidisciplinary profession known as structural engineering. But how can we integrate more of these skills into core academic classes such as English, algebra, physics and social studies?

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Abl Acquires School by Design to Scale Effort to Make Class Schedules More Equitable

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Other priorites include giving every teacher a balanced courseload and adequate lesson-prep time during the week, or ensuring that every English language learner and special-ed student has access to extra support. That undertaking required creating a new master schedule. But that was only half the battle, says Shriverdecker.

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Digital Game-Based Learning in Higher Ed Moves Beyond the Hype

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Students in Art Goldberg’s English composition classes at Miami-Dade College and Broward College have a different experience than their peers in most introductory college writing courses. The way you figure it out—you try something, and typically it does not work the first time, “ Phelps says. “So Toolwire’s Writing Games.