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Black Boys in Gifted Education Deserve More — and My Journey Is Proof of It

ED Surge

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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OPINION: Women education leaders need better support and sponsorships to help catch up

The Hechinger Report

In matters both big and small, women in education leadership are treated, spoken to and viewed differently than their male colleagues. The career moves that are open to aspiring women leaders often propel them toward a very real glass cliff — leadership roles in which the risk of failure is high. Data from the U.S.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Teaching students to read is one of the most difficult tasks for an early elementary school teacher. She erased the “m” and jotted down a “p.”.

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Using teacher-leaders to improve schools

The Hechinger Report

Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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Unmet Needs: Children with disabilities caught in the voucher crossfire

The Hechinger Report

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. A ‘Blessed’ Coast School.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. RELATED: Psst!

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