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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. In 2023, he returned the encouragement Messick had given him. Well, how do I teach government without talking about controversial topics? Some of them encourage her.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023. million who were eligible in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools.

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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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New Zealand has a problem with mathematics. Can a new strategy make a difference for students?

The Hechinger Report

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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The Vanishing Traces of Our Earliest Ancestors in Indonesia

Sapiens

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 million years ago to 110,000 years ago.

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3 global early ed trends to watch this year

The Hechinger Report

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Sapiens

Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival.

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