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

ED Surge

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

Following full-scale implementation of a proficiency-based system in 2011, postsecondary enrollment increased to 71 percent by 2018, up from an average rate of 59 percent over the 10 years prior to the district’s shift to personalized, competency-based learning. Related: OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S.

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Rethinking campus mental health to better serve LGBTQ+ students and others

The Hechinger Report

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

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COLUMN: Schools should do much more to protect young women from sexual abuse

The Hechinger Report

Beginning as early as the mid-1990s, Nassar abused dozens of girls, criminal behavior that was finally stopped in 2018 when he was sentenced to 175 years in prison. Although Nassar is a monster, our society is to blame for a culture that continues to permit the abuse of women and girls, and doubts them when they come forward.