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Camilla Benbow: Summer learning options affordable
Camilla Benbow
With the school year about to end, it is time to think about how to counter summer learning loss. During the summer, the average student loses about one month of the previous year’s learning gains. While all students lose some of what they have gained in mathematics, students from low-income families lose more — up to two months of academic learning — especially in reading.
New Peabody graduates fill teaching roles in Nashville’s lowest-performing middle schools
Jennifer Wetzel
Fourteen students with a commitment to improving teaching in urban middle schools will be the first to graduate May 11 from a two-year master’s program offered at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College in partnership with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.
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Camilla Benbow: Mentors play critical role in teacher preparation
Camilla Benbow
We hear many questions these days about whether teacher preparation programs are doing an effective job of graduating teachers who can help students achieve. Even U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has accused schools of education of doing a mediocre job.
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Which education reports matter?
Julie E. Greene
Assessment tests, college-entrance exams, advanced placement tests, graduation rates, dropout rates ... Every year, a pile of reports and statistics is produced to show how students and public school systems are faring.
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Camilla P. Benbow: Parents' role for college needs to be more advisory
Camilla P. Benbow
In my previous column, I alluded to the negative effects that being a “helicopter parent” can have on a child. When parents constantly intervene to prevent a child from dealing with difficulties and setbacks, they deny that child the opportunity to learn important lessons about personal effort and persistence.