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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. That’s a big deal. They offset each other.

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What the Data Tells Us About How ESSER Spending Did and Didn’t Help Schools Recover

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Both reading and math scores increased in districts in states like Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, where the rate of ESSER spending per student was relatively high (over $1,000) from 2022 to 2023.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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In Asia and Oceania, Spanish rule for over 300 years introduced Catholicism and centralized governance in places like present-day Guam , the Philippines, and Taiwan, deeply altering the identity and languages of these regions. Without a clear understanding of what lies within their vaults, museums cannot fulfill this duty.

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A trend colleges might not want applicants to notice: It’s becoming easier to get in

The Hechinger Report

As enrollment in colleges and universities continues to decline — down by more than two million students , or 10 percent, in the 10 years ending 2022 — they’re not only casting wider nets. percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. I think they’re casting the net further and wider.”

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. Its the only way forward, Kunki says.

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Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools.

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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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