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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

The Hechinger Report

States, on the other hand, establish high school graduation requirements and provide broad instructional guidance through learning standards. For most K-12 students, civics is a one and done single-semester high school course. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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

ED Surge

Seeing a Difference in Myself and Others When I got to middle school, I was bused to a school outside my neighborhood because they had a GATE program. It took an hour-long bus ride to and from school every day. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery.

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Resources

Catlin Tucker

The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles. It has a collection of creative and artistic activities for kids, including an advocacy poem, talking points for families, and collage activity.

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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school. He has tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy and autism, but that hasn’t stopped him from being ambitious at school.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District. DeKalb County School District. Edgecombe County Public Schools. Florence City Schools. Gulf Shores City Schools. Maine Township High School District 207. McComb School District. Mehlville School District.

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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

ED Surge

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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