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How This Teacher Brings Census Data to Life in the Classroom

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The census helps companies plan where to create jobs; local governments plan where to build roads, schools, and hospitals; and finally helps students and organizations that research the numbers bring awareness to issues and possible solutions. The kids could see a simple instruction, do something, move on to the next question.

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Aspen Institute’s Newest Ascend Fellows Represent a Tightening Focus on Early Childhood

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Rucker taught in the classroom for a couple of years, then joined the city of Baltimore as its Head Start coordinator, launching her career at the intersection of early childhood and local government. The local level is where the rubber meets the road. But the local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

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It can answer questions about school safety, disciplinary actions taken against certain student groups, graduation rates, attendance and academic performance. percent of students met proficiency targets on math and English language arts exams during the 2016-17 school year and only 8.38 According to the state data dashboard , only 7.98

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How to Teach Cyber Safety in Kindergarten

EdTech Magazine

As an educator, I recommend introducing topics in the classroom that will encourage students to ask questions. Digital literacy is a new language almost, and they are learning it at younger and younger ages,” Pike says. The organization has developed a library of cyber curricula resources for K–12. “As by Erin Cunningham.

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The Pandemic Released a Stream of Money for Broadband. Will That Advance Digital Equity?

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For the last few years, the local government — with schools, the telecommunications company EPB of Chattanooga, and nonprofits — has run “HCS EdConnect,” a program through which schools give Chromebooks, tablets and free training on the skills needed to use smart technology and the modern internet system.

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Immigrants learn English for free at California colleges. Under Trump, some are skipping class

Cal Matters

They speak Farsi, Cantonese, Spanish and at least two dozen other languages. At California’s community colleges, more than 290,000 students take free, non-credit English as a Second Language classes. Some earned master’s degrees in their home countries, while others never finished middle school.

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