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Allison Shelley for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action With the end of the school year approaching, Indianapolis teacher Katy Aiello considered signing up to work summer school. She quickly decided: “Nope.” After a roller-coaster year of both remote and in-person learning, she’s planning a well-deserved break. “It’s just extremely difficult for me to see myself doing something other than self care this summer,” said Aiello, who teaches fourth grade. “I need some time to travel, relax, walk away from the computer screen.” She’s not alone. Fourteen ...

. As school districts and states scramble to use federal COVID relief aid to help students recover academically this summer, they’ll need to address a core challenge of summer learning: Too often, students don’t show up. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated the impact of voluntary, in-person summer programs in five urban districts in 2013 and 2014. They found that 20 percent of students never attended the first summer, and half didn’t come the second summer. For those who attended at least 80 percent of the time both summers, however, improvement was significant: Gains in reading and ...

'Deceived': Indianapolis Charter School Pitch Left Out Lawsuits, Touted Questionable College Degrees To launch a “transformational” middle school in an overlooked eastside neighborhood, Indianapolis charter advocates turned to a man students call Coach T. For two decades, Tariq Al-Nasir ran his Stemnasium enrichment programs with a mission of helping Black and brown students realize their “superpowers” in science, technology, engineering, and math. With a resume boasting advanced degrees from MIT and Stanford, Al-Nasir put forward a vision of education in which hands-on lessons in cod...

Apr 7, 2021 / 08:39 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)- There is money on the table aimed squarely at helping central Indiana children, and it is all in the name of literacy. The deadline is fast approaching for a program designed to get as many children as possible to be able to read and write. It’s called the Go Farther Literacy Fund, and there is a total of $20,000 up for grabs. The Indiana Student Achievement Report said when it comes to reading abilities, gaps among students can start to show as early as 3rd grade. The report states that research suggests students who aren’t at or above gr...

Isle of Wight Radio 6:00pm - Midnight Live and Local Podcast - Supporting Live Local Music On The Isle Of Wight Unique Survey On Isle Of Wight To Support Military Widows By Iona Stewart-Richardson DR Gemma Wilson, Mary Moreland, Chairperson of the War Widows’ Association and Gill McGill lecturer at Northumbria University Research, which is said to be the first of its kind is being carried out on the Isle of Wight - in a bid to support military widows. Academics at the University of Northumbria are looking at how to combat loneliness and social isolation among military widows. They are inv...