High Schools

The weird things Rand Paul said about reopening schools

3 weeks ago Jennifer

During the exchange about schools, Paul, an ophthalmologist, offered his opinion on medical details, disagreeing with many researchers on the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 80,000 Americans in the past few months. Paul is the only senator to contract covid-19, the disease the virus causes, but has since recovered.

Paul said that U.S. schools — virtually all of which closed in the spring when the coronavirus began to spread around this country — should open in the fall, and that it would be “ridiculous” if they don’t. He challenged predictions by Fauci and other experts in infectious diseases

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Kids shouldn’t sit at desks all day when schools reopen

3 weeks ago Jennifer

States and school districts across the country are putting together plans for reopening schools when it is deemed safe, with features that allow for keeping students and teachers apart from each other as much as possible. Many of the plans call for students to stay at their desks in the same room all day, and even eat lunch there, reducing the movement they had in schools pre-pandemic.

Hanscom explains what the consequences can be if students are forced to sit at their desks for all or much of the day without opportunities for playing outdoors.

By Angela Hanscom

“It took

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NYC schools lift ban on Zoom as hackers hit other educational online

3 weeks ago Jennifer

Online security concerns have been growing since schools across the country closed to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus and students were told to work remotely. Schools and districts rushed to create remote lessons and partnered with different online platforms, sometimes without strict security filters. There have been numerous reports of intruders disrupting classes and school meetings, from elementary school to higher education.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said late last week that Zoom Video Communications had done “substantial work” to ensure users “don’t have to worry while participating in a video call” as they become “more

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How parents can avoid exhausting their emotional energy too early and in the wrong places

3 weeks ago Jennifer

Here are the first two parts of the series:

By Roxanna Elden

The first week in May is a big time for uplifting quotes about taking care of kids, encompassing as it does both Mother’s Day and Teacher Appreciation Week. With these celebrations comes a flurry of messages reminding both teachers and moms that we’re doing the “most important job in the world.” It’s usually meant as a compliment, but let’s be honest: That’s a lot of pressure. After all, if it’s true that “a hundred years from now, all that will matter is the difference you made in the

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K-12 school districts warn of ‘disaster’ from covid-19-related budget cuts

3 weeks ago Jennifer

“[D]ark clouds are forming on the educational horizon that will spell disaster if Congress does not intervene,” the letter said. “Significant revenue shortfalls are looming for local school districts that will exacerbate the disruption students have already faced. Some 40 to 50 percent of school district revenue, in fact, come from local sources that are expected to drop precipitously in the months ahead. This revenue decline will come on top of revenue losses in the months to come from state sources that have been more widely reported. Several big city school districts are now projecting 15 to 25 percent cuts

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What Young People Don’t Know About Money Could Hurt Them in This Economic Crash. How Schools Can Help – Inside School Research

3 weeks ago Jennifer

About 1 in 5 of the nation’s 15-year-olds don’t have basic financial skills at a time when 33 million Americans are out of work and the economy is expected to suffer continuing shockwaves from the coronavirus for months or years.

The Program for International Student Assessment 2018 financial literacy test, released today, gauged the money smarts of more than 110,000 teenagers in 20 countries and education systems, including the United States. It found U.S. students scored 506 on average on the 1,000-point test, statistically average with other countries in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which runs the PISA.

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Khan App Boosted Early Literacy, Parent Teaching in Small Trial – Inside School Research

4 weeks ago Jennifer

With even the youngest students exposed to hours more screentime than typical as school closures drag on, researchers from the Early Academic Development Lab at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst said schools can support parents as educators by guiding their use of educational apps.

In a small-scale randomized controlled trial researchers led by lab director David Arnold found the free literacy app Khan Academy Kids boosted early literacy skills—but parents also said it improved their skills in teaching their children literacy at home.

Researchers randomly assigned 50 preschool-age children from high-poverty families to use loaned iPads loaded with either the Khan

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How crowd photos can be misleading — and a primer on spotting fake news

4 weeks ago Jennifer

The material comes from the project’s newsletter, the Sift, which takes the most recent viral rumors, conspiracy theories, hoaxes and journalistic ethics issues and turns them into timely lessons with discussion prompts and links. The Sift, which is published weekly during the school year, has more than 10,000 subscribers, most of them educators.

The News Literacy Project also offers a program called Checkology, a browser-based platform designed for students in grades 6 through 12 that helps prepare the next generation to easily identify misinformation. Now, during the novel coronavirus pandemic, the project is offering access to Checkology Premium at

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Curbing the Spread of COVID-19, Anxiety, and Learning Loss for Youth Behind Bars – Inside School Research

4 weeks ago Jennifer

As educators and leaders juggle remote learning schedules, food distribution, and how to get kindergartners to sit still on Zoom meetings, there’s one particularly vulnerable group of students in danger of falling off the education radar: students in the juventile justice system.

Coronavirus is spreading rapidly in pre- and post-trial correctional facilities across the United States, and the challenges of social distancing for students in regular districts—uneven educational resources and learning loss, anxiety and trauma, isolation from friends and family—are all massively compounded for students behind bars.

“It’s not a new normal, it’s a new abnormal,” said Christine Jones, the

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