Remove 2024 Remove Heritage Remove Public School
article thumbnail

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days.

article thumbnail

National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Michael Rady , senior education programs manager, GLSEN We’re seeing record numbers of bills being introduced — 500 so far in 2024 — targeting LGBTQ+ people.

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

ZinnEdProject pic.twitter.com/p6ZD5LtD8y — SURJ KC (@SURJ_KC) June 11, 2024 The event began in the auditorium of the KCKPL Main Library where participants learned from local Palestinian-American organizers. Maryland Annapolis A dynamic event was hosted by Key School, featuring a diverse range of activities.

article thumbnail

The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

The Hechinger Report

This is an adapted excerpt from “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education” by Laura Pappano. Copyright 2024. Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.”

Library 131
article thumbnail

A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

article thumbnail

Two States Are Responsible for Most of the Nation’s School Book Bans

ED Surge

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states — Iowa and Florida — responsible for most of them, according to preliminary findings released by PEN America on Monday. The Tennessee law requires schools to remove books with gratuitous violence or sexual content.

Library 134
article thumbnail

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Last year, eight years after Siyuja graduated, the K-8 school still did not offer pre-algebra, a course that most U.S. public school students take in seventh or eighth grade, if not earlier. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools.

Education 105