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As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. White students absorb these same cultural cues. Cultural differences influence teaching efficacy, however.

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Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. In the early 2000s, she saw a grant from the National Science Foundation as a possible solution for Milwaukee’s public schools.

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They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Fernandez, principal, Cambridge Street Upper School.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. Now a team of economists has produced a study that calculates how a family’s attitudes about women can impede girls’ math achievement at school. “Boy bias is in the culture. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “Parenting is really hard.

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She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. In public schools, there are state standards … and to some extent that probably constrains the creativity of educators,” said Fagen. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The Muñiz Academy is an open-enrollment school, so administrators can’t restrict who attends.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates. public schools.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect.”

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I I got a bunch of friends who go to schools around the neighborhood and it’s like you go to school, you get your grades, alright we’re done for the day.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

NEW YORK — The zone for Public School 67 was drawn exclusively around the sprawling Ingersoll public housing complex, but as children trudge into the building, they can see the tips of the gleaming glass luxury towers that are reshaping the skyline around them in downtown Brooklyn. Fourth-graders at P.S. 67 often work in groups.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The New Orleans public school system is unlike any other in America. All but a few of the 80 public schools operate as charters, which private organizations run using public funds. So last year, Carlos and others asked the new English Language Learner coordinator, Ann Holleman, if they could start a school squad.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Charters like PUC Schools and district school systems across the country are facing a common problem: Even though students of color represent half of the public school student population, the teacher workforce is still overwhelmingly white. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous.

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MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. Schools would also be open on Saturdays and through the summer. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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. “No sé por qué dudas de ti misma” Hace años, cuando Woodfin asistió de kinder hasta octavo grado en Union Public Schools , ella estudió en aulas bastante homogéneas. Credit: Shane Bevel del The Hechinger Report Unión Public Schools, en cambio, ha intentado encontrar un término medio.

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In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. Garcia’s high school students took the lead in clearing out the property. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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JULY 2, 2016

“When you think about the numbers of students, and we have this huge language barrier, and there are these cultural differences,” LeRoy said. Related: In a conservative corner of Arkansas, schools welcome immigrants. Sometimes cultural differences keep parents from understanding that schools want to hear from them.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools. And parents say Highland Park’s once-proud school district has collapsed, hastened by four years under state control.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. When we say every, we mean every.”.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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JUNE 27, 2016

It’s an investment, streamlining the costs of hiring and turnover in a district while mitigating the negative impact that chronic turnover has on a school culture and the education of a child. Marisa Bier is the Program Director for the Seattle Teacher Residency, with 22 years experience in teacher preparation and public education.

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JULY 4, 2016

Careful not to offend the charter school community, which upholds autonomy as sacred, King added, “But I believe the goal for all schools should be to create a school culture that motivates student to want to do the best.”. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Vince Scheivert, chief information officer for Albermarle County Schools, gives computer advice to Cassidy Watkins (left) and Madeline Rice, both Burley Middle School students. Photo: Lorenzo Dickerson, Albemarle County Public Schools. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Katrina upended many of this city’s customs and institutions, but arguably no change has been more indelible than the transformation of New Orleans’s public schools. The state, in turn, put most of the city’s historically black schools into the hands of a new class of leaders, many of them white transplants.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

When you’re in a new country, new friends, new culture, new everything — what a hit that takes to your confidence,” said Fabela, who teaches at Fort Worth’s International Newcomer Academy. In Texas, one in five students in public schools is an English-language learner. Back to Class: How schools can rebound.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Students are referred by residential drug-treatment programs, school districts, or parents desperate for help. Once in, the hope is that a culture of “positive peer pressure” will help teens stay sober. Its doors opened in January, 2012. Going back to their old school could hinder their progress. “My

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In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive. “Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive. Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says.

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Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018. Joining In Peter Jefferson, a senior at Henry Clay High School, a public school in Lexington, Kentucky, is active in politics, especially for someone who is not yet 18 years old.

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JUNE 23, 2020

This period of social distancing is giving us a glimpse of what it’s like when a school is shuttered permanently, a tragedy tens of thousands of families have had to deal with over the last two decades. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mindfulness school programs have been shown to improve young people’s emotional well-being, academic performance and relationships. In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science.

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