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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

. — Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study. North Star added AP Biology in 2011, AP Calculus BC in 2013, AP Computer Science in 2014, AP Chemistry in 2015, and AP Physics last year.

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Grit under attack

The Hechinger Report

For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. The MacArthur Foundation awarded her one of its coveted genius grants in 2013. In a Saturday session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Washington D.C.,

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Book Bans Threaten Public Education

Zinn Education Project

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” For displays and/or readings of banned books, Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended titles.