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One of the worst states at caring for low-income babies and toddlers

The Hechinger Report

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

So when one student says she plans to study the Bermuda Triangle, the professor recommends that she ask a librarian—maybe the one who talked to the class earlier in the semester—to help her curate a reading list of secondary sources. As for primary sources, the professor suggests looking for a map, or a ship’s record, or a diary entry.

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Shaking Up High School Math

Achieve the Core

They were our primary source of relevant information, after all. So instead of marking a task wrong and moving on as we often see, badging articulates a more humanizing approach to working with students where feedback and revision processes allow students to refine and improve their work over time. Enter badging.

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

Department of Health and Human Services. Haskins used to benefit from a child care subsidy program, commonly referred to by parents and providers here as DHS, shorthand for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. All told, 1.3

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

Lesseig, who is now a research associate at the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation at the University of Mississippi, noted, for instance, that the text presented Vardaman, the turn-of-the-century governor who supported lynching, as a “normal human being.”. And not just in February. Kristen Kirkland, who is white, teaches two U.S.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. I love the ideas of picture books and primary sources for young children, too.