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New Zealand has a problem with mathematics. Can a new strategy make a difference for students?

The Hechinger Report

Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths. In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Not any more.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.”

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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth

Teaching American History

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. The post Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

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where I teach. In a 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari report on Mughal Emperor Akbars government, an author refers to roti explicitly , explaining that the dish made with flour, milk, ghee, and salt tastes very well, when served hot. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.)

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Rural schools have a teacher shortage. Why don’t people who live there, teach there?

The Hechinger Report

More than two decades later, the teaching ranks of the Poplar School District , which serves about 900 students, 96 percent of whom are American Indian, look quite different than when Daniels was a student there. Sheryl Kohl, who is white, was ready to teach when she moved to Daniels’ hometown in 1983. Daniels went for it. “I

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching."

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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students 

The Hechinger Report

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.

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