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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out. As he got older, fewer history classes highlighted Asian Americans.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. One elementary school principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”