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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

But all of the 19 states that did make information readily publicly available in 2016 reported higher dropout rates for students in special education than for all students. By 2016, the district had reduced its dropout rate for students in special education to fewer than 5 percent and increased the graduation rate to 85 percent.

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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. When I get students for civics, I’ve already had them for world history in 10th grade,” Wregglesworth says.

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

In his poem “At the Intersection of Sarinah Plaza, Thamrin Street” about the 2016 bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia, by Islamist militants, we’re at the intersection where “suddenly grief falls heavier/than laughter.” Engage these poets as they speak of their worlds, histories, and communities.