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What Is Your Why?: The Importance of Computer Science Education

Digital Promise

The Python courses have supported students transitioning into International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) pathways and exist at all three high schools. For instance, in East Irondequoit Central School District , students learn coding vocabulary and algorithms in the second grade and programming in the fifth grade.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

(School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.) Younger students attend the K-8 campus on the former boarding school site, while the high school is located in a gleaming new tower nearby at the Central New Mexico College. No language class, nothing,” Joshua said of his previous school. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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District says 24 credits and a D-minus average aren’t good enough

The Hechinger Report

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. The district also created a family and community engagement coordinator position. WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. So and So told me that, so that’s got to be right.’ ”.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. 19 states still allow corporal punishment in public schools. Johnson is the mother of three girls. Sometimes, though, the system breaks down.

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How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative

The Hechinger Report

Courtney Cochran, a high school principal, introduces her co-hosts for Arkansas PBS’s new educational programming: teachers Meghan Ables and Joel Lookadoo. Community engagement is a big element that kids are missing during this time, so to have an actual face of a teacher on the TV seemed like a good idea,” she said.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report McAndrew gives particular credit for the rising numbers of young voters to the gun-safety organization March for Our Lives, founded by survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17. Here’s how you call your state senator.