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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. That research identified four distinct stages of problem solving — encoding, planning, solving and responding — that engaged diverse areas of the brain.

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Civil Conversation Protects Our Civil Rights

Teaching American History

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Our Apprenticeship in Liberty Begins at the Local Level “Civics class should give students an apprenticeship in liberty ,” Wregglesworth argued. Peters agreed.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.