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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

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Of particular concern is the effect of missing class on student achievement, along with other notable problems like student behavior. For public sector education jobs, the recovery in employment from the COVID-19 crisis was slow. Using data from the U.S.

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Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

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This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. A few districts, most notably those in Washington, D.C.,

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What Would It Take to Attract Gen Z to Teaching?

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In partnership with researchers at Vanderbilt University, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit that works to improve public education across 16 states in the Southeast, has been examining the next generation’s interest in the teaching profession and has published their findings in a report released in April.

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How Has the Pandemic Changed the Way Educators Think About Homework?

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Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. They cite homework’s impact on the achievement gap between students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. Maxey has spent over two decades in public education, both in the classroom and at the administrative level.

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Getting up to Speed: Teacher Prep and Technology Integration

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Institutions cannot achieve the goal without incorporating technology-based learning into the programs themselves.”. Here is an excerpt from the publication K-12 Dive recent piece on pandemic learning. They also should pay special care to ensure that educators understand the privacy and security concerns associated with technology.

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Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

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There, students have access to “gold standard” multilingual programming, a hard-won achievement for any U.S. Rural English learners sit at the intersection of overlapping structural problems in public education. But in rural DuBois County, Indiana, administrators are prioritizing English-learner education.

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As Schools Move to Change How Kids Are Graded, Some Families Push Back

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When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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