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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

Since 2015, Kelly Tudor, in Texas, has run a Facebook group for Indigenous home-school families. All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. The Siddiquis.

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Multiage classrooms put child development at the center

The Hechinger Report

Fannie Lou Hamer is a small public high school that utilizes several progressive educational philosophies; the school’s innovations have led to it being named a “Gold” School of Opportunity by the National Education Policy Center in 2015 and a “model school” by the Center for Reform of School Systems in 2016.

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

The Hechinger Report

” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. This question has two distinct connotations. On the one hand, asking “What’s the worst that could happen?”

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New Education Department Officials Say Book Bans Are a 'Hoax.' Teachers Disagree.

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Two students in her class told school officials that the book made them feel ashamed of their whiteness, indicating that Wood had violated the budget provision prohibiting the use of curricula that make an individual feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his race or sex.

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