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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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OPINION: Why are schools that predominately serve black and brown students consistently underfunded?

The Hechinger Report

Consequently, classrooms ballooned to 40 or 50 students, and many lacked proper air-conditioning units during 90-degree days. In response, teachers struggled with classroom management; parents complained about teachers’ inabilities to instruct students and manage classrooms; and student altercations increased.

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What is evidence-based education?

Jonathan Firth

He argues that it tends to link to top-down approaches where administrators and governments say that strategies work on the basis of lab research, when they may not work in a specific context. Accessed 14 May 2017 at [link] Cooper, H., Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement.

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. In Avoyelles in 2017-18, in addition to the high turnover rates, about 20 percent of the instructors either weren’t certified in the subject they were teaching or weren’t certified at all.