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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Hello World magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation (a magazine on computing and digital making for educators by educators). Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS).

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

As the co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and editor and research director of the organization’s magazine, The Crisis, he published his opposition to the unequal treatment of Black Americans and promoted Black nationalism.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

Arlee High School is a public school on the Flathead Reservation. Six tribes, including CKST, have sued the state of Montana for failing to implement its Indian Education for All curriculum in public schools over the past few decades, despite a mandate to do so. Rachel Glickhouse coordinated partnerships.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting.

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Could we improve America by treating 2-year-olds better?

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. School readiness at the start of kindergarten can affect a child’s ability to read by third grade. Sign up for our newsletter.

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How one Mississippi community copes with influx of Hispanic students

The Hechinger Report

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. He didn’t take the ELL job for the $19,000 salary. “I

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“Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding

The Hechinger Report

Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. At the time, the mayor told Newsweek that the local schools were to blame for the cycle of violence. Taheem Fennel stands on his front stoop in Wilmington, Delaware on the first day of school. Schools in Delaware were one of the five cases that comprised Brown v.