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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

The Hechinger Report

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. Sign up for our newsletter.

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How to find minority teachers who want to stay in the job?

The Hechinger Report

A March 2016 study by Johns Hopkins University showed that black teachers are more likely to have higher expectations for their black students; for example, white teachers were almost 40 percent less likely than their black counterparts to expect black students to finish high school.

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PROOF POINTS: A research update on social-emotional learning in schools

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

Zinn Education Project

For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles. With thousands of books banned, Social Justice Books has selected titles that address social issues , such as When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball. Display Banned in the U.S.A.