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Eliminating advanced math ‘tracks’ often prompts outrage. Some districts buck the trend 

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Boulan Park Middle School math teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a mathematics problem in Troy, Michigan. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall, and a petition demanding that the middle-school plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures.

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As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy

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Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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New study casts doubts on effectiveness of personalized learning program in New Jersey

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In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Those schools no longer use it. Photo: Nichole Dobo. Choose as many as you like.

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Low-income districts find ways to help students make music

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All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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Will voters guarantee these public school kids a week in the woods?

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Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. But, as far as she knows, no other state is considering funding an outdoor school experience for all children.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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Children who shouldn’t be paddled are paddled anyway, usually when parent letters get lost, or because school officials don’t check their lists before doling out corporal punishment, a problem documented both inside and outside Covington County. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

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Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Photo: Kyle Spencer. Others question its efficacy.