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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation. Students have participated at every stage of the work, from investigating the root cause of the writing challenges to developing possible solutions.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

ED Surge

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling

Studies Weekly

22, 2021 • By Studies Weekly As the school year comes to a close, students are eager to leave classwork behind and spend more time with friends. 3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling Mar.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. 2021, May 9). 2021, May 28). 2021, December 21). Annisette, L. E., & Lafreniere, K.

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Digging Up Rural Roots: The Source at the Library of Congress

NCHE

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. One example of the work that will be presented in The Source is students’ discoveries in their hometown of Thomaston, Georgia.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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