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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Education Week. Carter, E. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

The Hechinger Report

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. They’re proud of their heritage. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. The BIE closed Havasupai Elementary for nearly a month in 2015 because of insufficient staffing. The school had a curriculum for just one subject English language arts and no textbooks for math, science and social studies, the compliance report reads.

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A racially charged assault spurs schools to rally behind Portland’s large refugee community

The Hechinger Report

Eighth-grader Zakaria Ali, right, a student of Somali heritage, talks about how Muslims lose their freedom when Americans equate Islam with terror, as eighth-grader Hadil Ramadan, left, listens. This year in the project, which encompassed social studies, English, math and science, the topic of Islamophobia was popular.