Jackie Valley
Assistant Editor and Reporter at The Nevada Independent
Education writer for @csmonitor. Midwest expat. Always looking for a good story to tell: [email protected]
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csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley
Inside a small staff room at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, Lyla Czerniawski and three friends are making a video for incoming sixth graders about middle school life. As they bat around suggestions, one student interrupts with a question that is arguably the elephant in the room. “Wait – did we all like middle school?” she asks. Why We Wrote ThisToday’s eighth graders are shaped by pandemic learning and issues with student engagement that followed.
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teachplus.org | Jackie Valley
| Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Inside a small staff room at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, Lyla Czerniawski and three friends are making a video for incoming sixth graders about middle school life. As they bat around suggestions, one student interrupts with a question that is arguably the elephant in the room. “Wait – did we all like middle school?” she asks. Why We Wrote This Today’s eighth graders are shaped by pandemic learning and issues with student...
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csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley |Sophie Hills
A deadlocked Supreme Court sidestepped a decision about whether to allow the United States’ first public religious charter school, preserving the church-state wall for now. The divided court tied 4-4 Thursday in a consolidated pair of cases – Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond – that could have eroded a key tenet of the First Amendment while also profoundly changing America’s public schooling system.
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csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley
Eugenia Phillips’ warning pierces the crisp morning air at the corner of West 103rd and South Morgan streets in this South Side neighborhood. “Watch this car! Watch this car!” she shouts, arms pointing and waving. Ms. Phillips had seen what others had not: children farther down South Morgan Street who were about to haphazardly cross the road and into the path of an oncoming vehicle. The dark-colored SUV slammed its brakes. The two girls jumped back toward the curb.
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csmonitor.com | Melanie Freeman |Jackie Valley
In this hub of midcentury modernism, certain architectural elements of the 20th century’s middle decades reign supreme. Expansive windows. Open floor plans. And, yes, those oh-so-clean lines. But twice a year, a different kind of line appears outside these desert dwellings: a queue of architecture experts and enthusiasts coming from far and wide to tour historic, tastefully decorated homes during the Modernism Week celebration. This February was the festival’s 20th anniversary.
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How do eighth graders – who were third graders when the pandemic began and kindergartners when President Donald Trump first took office – perceive school and their life beyond childhood? Their answers say a lot about student engagement (or lack thereof). https://t.co/0Onl3XuHph
A deadlocked Supreme Court sidestepped a decision about whether to allow the United States’ first public religious charter school, preserving the church-state wall for now. Full story w/ @sophiemhills >> https://t.co/yOjCH28g4p
".... He is the son of a Navy veteran and local librarian and – according to his brother – a White Sox fan. But as one Vatican insider put it: "He’s the least ‘American’ of the American cardinals." @csmonitor staff dispatch on Pope Leo: https://t.co/D6TScuc0Bl