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Teach Holocaust History with Echoes and Reflections
Echoes and Reflections is the leader in Holocaust education, providing teacher training programs across the U.S. Earn professional development credit and explore classroom-ready materials― lessons include maps, photos, primary source documents, visual history testimony, and connections to standards. Find a program today!

Two paths are emerging in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, suggest Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21, and Bob  -More- 

The Kansas state House Education Committee voted against a proposal to opt out of the Common Core State Standards that were a -More- 

The recently released Digital Learning Report Card grades states on a set of 39 criteria related to their education-technolog -More- 

As students in Massachusetts begin taking the English-language portion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System e -More- 

A school in Worthing, England, has taken lessons about the environment beyond the classroom walls to create a student group c -More- 

North Carolina could lose its "first in flight" bragging rights because aviation bible "Jane's All the World's Aircraft" says -More- 

Kim O'Neil from Liverpool, N.Y., has been elected vice-president of National Council for the Social Studies.  -More- 

A high-quality social studies education plays a vital role in preparing students for college, careers and citizenship.  -More- 

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Zora Neale Hurston,American author -More- 

Students at Saddle Brook High School in New Jersey are about the same age as Abraham Peck was when he was sent to concentrati -More- 

A new "back to basics" curriculum being proposed in North Carolina would require elementary-school students to learn cursive. -More- 

Students at Range View Elementary School in Severance, Colo., learn through asking questions and making mistakes, a process t -More- 

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Teach Holocaust History with Echoes and Reflections
Echoes and Reflections is the leader in Holocaust education, providing teacher training programs across the U.S. Earn professional development credit and explore classroom-ready materials― lessons include maps, photos, primary source documents, visual history testimony, and connections to standards. Find a program today!

At a meeting Tuesday with Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Washington, D.C., some state education leaders expressed concern -More- 

While educators nationwide are doing exciting things with technology, participants at a panel discussion Wednesday said that  -More- 

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About 40 students in the Environmental Alliance at Haverford Middle School in Pennsylvania are launching a public awareness c -More- 

When high-profile public figures admit to lying, cheating and other misbehavior, it can be confusing for students who look up -More-