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The Challenges Educators Face

A Principal's Reflections

integration of universally designed practices to help all students (which covers social justice, restorative practices, SEL) and somehow helping more teachers embrace that accommodations are not cheating. You can see the tweet below. What specific challenges do you face in education? Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching.

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Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems

Digital Promise

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question. Set a clear and explicit vision for equity.

Education 139
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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

Education 145
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C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!: A Path Maker for Justice

Zinn Education Project

Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education. Under her leadership they traveled to South Africa, where they visited Robben Island Prison where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and they visited Soweto. September, 2019.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Jake McGraw, of the Jackson-based William Winter Institute, a social justice and racial reconciliation group, said lawmakers thinking of solutions must acknowledge the sum of barriers outside of school in places like Holmes: poor access to health care and the lack of economic development. That is a fact. We need to acknowledge that.”.

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

His most recent books are Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Political Order and Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Two of his books received the William Riker award for the best book on political economy.