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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

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Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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How Many English Learners Graduate From High School? It Depends Where They Live

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“We are a friendly state when it comes to taking any sort of refugees, or anyone who enters our state, so we have Spanish-dominant [English learner] students who come at any age, from being little to being youth,” says Valtierrez, the department’s director of language and culture. Texas and Illinois did not provide information that year.

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Current STEM Diversity Programs and Investments Aren’t Working — It’s Time to Shift Focus

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According to 2019 data from the National Science Foundation, women held one-third of STEM occupations in the United States. jobs in science and engineering in 2019. Young girls need culturally-relevant curricula and programs in their schools and communities that are accessible and affordable. percent of Latina women, 1.8

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How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Chooses to Go to Campus?

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By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. So what is happening here?

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Students Want a Better Education Experience. First, Teachers Must Master Deeper Learning.

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At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

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Students performed better in 2019, with 18 percent meeting state standards for ELA and just under 12 percent meeting standards for math. We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In She said in Mexican culture it's the mother's responsibility to take care of children.

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Schools Are Desperate to Stop Violence. Will These New Guidelines Help?

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Sixty-four percent of public schools have a threat assessment team, according to an Institute of Education Sciences report using data from the 2019-2020 school year. In a culture of fear and anxiety about school violence, schools can overreact, one researcher argues, mislabeling bad discipline practices.

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