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Districts put DEI into action

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Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Also, the system is designed and geared towards closing the achievement gap in reading and math between black children and white children. This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

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Also, the system is designed and geared towards closing the achievement gap in reading and math between black children and white children. This is a community problem that our local government should be investing in. That’s what this is designed to do. This is not an educational problem.

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The Best Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum for Busy Parents

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Second graders learn how to read maps and globes, identify landforms, and understand how geography affects daily life. Government & Citizenship What makes a good citizen ? Second graders learn about local government, rules, laws, and leaders who help keep communities running smoothly.

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How to teach taxes to kids: Fun Activities for 2nd-4th graders

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This tax provides the bulk of the money for local governments to keep schools open, fund police and fire departments. More Ways to teach Taxes to Kids: Use Fun Writing prompts or Class discussions Heres a thought-provoking question to ask your students: What would happen if no one paid taxes? Use a reading comprehension passage!

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Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

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It’s called “linguistic fingerprinting,” where linguistic techniques are used to determine whether a text has been written by a specific person based on analysis of their previous writings. He’s an English teacher at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Georgia, and he also writes a newsletter about the issues AI raises in education.

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What It Means to Live in a Digitally Connected World: A Tale of Two Teenagers

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It's way more interesting than just writing about Homer’s The Odyssey. For many of us, when we read their stories, we assume that they live worlds apart. Federal, state and local government funding and policy are required to help design the needle that we move, but the colloquial “third sector” provides the forward thrust.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

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Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager to build on, having helped to write and lobby for a statewide bill that sought to put a student board member in each Kentucky school district.

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