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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

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It

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Why Healing Affinity Spaces Are Necessary for Black Women Educators

ED Surge

Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms. Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers.

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

The Hechinger Report

Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.”

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Coronavirus means school food is free across the U.S. What if it stayed that way?

The Hechinger Report

Yakima School District kitchen workers Tracy Renecker and Alma Rosa Cuevas prepare to load bags of food into a car in October at the drive-through distribution point set up outside Washington Middle School in Yakima, Wash. Carts loaded with 10-meal bags wait in a walk-in cooler at Washington Middle School.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

They went door-to-door recruiting participants for a parents council to elicit community input in the day-to-day operations of the school. Two weeks before school started,” said Fuller, “the superintendent, Lee McMurrin, moved the principal to another school and brought in a middle school principal. The trade-off.