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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?

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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form. The research used an algorithm to estimate the median BMI of entire governments.

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

ED Surge

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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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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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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How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

ED Surge

The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically the same as in 1995 when some of todays students' own parents were in grade school themselves. Looking at the Big Picture Fourth graders scored an average of 517 points in math in 2023, putting them just one point lower than the average score in 1995.

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Our 10 Most Popular Early Childhood Education Stories of 2023

ED Surge

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. Check out our most-read stories of 2023 below. As of May 2023, the Bezos Academy network had more than a dozen sites across Washington, Texas and Florida.

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