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  • Local proposals' goals to improve learning, young lives of children”

    Universal preschool is a policy that is often hard to pass on voter referendums. But, as evidenced by examples in Detroit and New York, such an investment means that more children would do well in kindergarten, fewer would need special education or other extra help and down the line, fewer would drop out of high school, end up unemployed — or in jail.

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  • Math concepts + teamwork = big gains at struggling Renton school”

    In the Renton School District, teachers found that only a very few fifth-graders could solve problems with the skill that, in other schools, was common in third or even second grade. So they turned math lessons into carefully guided conversations in which students explain their approaches, defend their reasoning and critique each other’s ideas.

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  • High poverty, high test scores: Auburn school is a shouting success

    As school poverty rates goes up, learning and test scores fall. At Gildo Ray elementary school in Washington state uses a teaching method called director or explicit instruction, in which children learn from a structured approach to teaching with teacher-guided practice. Gildo Ray’s test scores in math and reading are among the highest in the state.

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  • Less lecturing, more doing: New approach for A.P. classes

    Several dozen schools across the country are participating in an experiment to determine whether project-based learning in lieu of lecture-only instruction can improve student outcomes on Advanced Placement tests. Many of the initial changes are promising - 88 percent of students in two of the low-income schools participating passed the U.S. government test in the spring compared to 24 percent nationally for similar schools. However, the switch has been time-consuming for teachers and students and some are concerned the new approach doesn't prepare students for college style learning.

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  • Lessons for locals on power of parents in schools”

    A lot of research backs the notion that parents play an important role in the academic success of their children, and their children’s schools. While too much parent involvement can cause problems, as happens in some high-income schools, many other schools struggle to foster any ties with most of their families — especially in the growing numbers of neighborhoods where teachers and students don’t share a language, a culture or a ZIP code.

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