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High School Checklist: Freshman Through Senior Year

High schoolers have a lot on their plates. With everything from extracurriculars to SAT prep to college applications, high school can be tough to manage sometimes. Fortunately, we’ve put together this step-by-step approach to navigating the high school years (available to logged in users on the Student Noticeboard). If you need some help staying on track, follow our high

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New Florida law clears pathway to graduation for thousands of high school seniors

High school seniors in Northeast Florida can breathe a sigh of relief now that Governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill providing more options for students to satisfy high school graduation requirements. This year state lawmakers proposed raising the score students would need to earn on the reading and writing portion of the

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Why Do it?

What makes tutoring effective? The one-on-one, one-on-two kind of small-group instruction that’s well targeted to what the student needs, that’s relationship-based so that there is trust, and a willingness by the student to take risks and really try to learn all the things that go along with that kind of close relationship.  What do we

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Get ready for “Stretch,” a chatbot being designed specifically for K-12 educators. 

The chatbot is the brainchild of the newly combined professional development mega organization created by the merger of the International Society for Technology in Education and ASCD.  The nonprofit organization has worked with Google and Open AI (the team behind ChatGPT) to create its very own chatbot, informed by the same kind of large language models

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Biden Administration Wants College Students to Step In as K-12 Tutors

The Education Department released a letter encouraging colleges to let their students take work-study jobs as K-12 tutors. Colleges and universities should deploy more of their own students as paid tutors in local schools, the Biden administration has said. In a “dear colleague” letter,the U.S. Department of Education encouraged colleges and universities to use Federal Work-Study

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High-Dose’ Tutoring Boosts Student Scores. Will It Also Work Online?

The pandemic left plummeting test scores in its wake, especially in math.  The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results from last year returned historically big declines in scores for fourth and eighth graders in math, leading to fears that catching students up would prove difficult.  The good news is that this particular malady has a prescription

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Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push for ‘civics’ education: What does it look like?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said that if elected president in 2024he would push for civics education about the founding principles of the United States to celebrate the country’s upcoming 250th anniversary. Florida’s America-focused education requirements  DeSantis signed several policies into law in 2021 that set off a wave of new educational requirements about the country

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