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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

But their families have managed to give them a jump-start through additional after-school programs, tutors and other resources, he says. Students in upper-track math courses are no smarter or better at math than others. The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds.

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

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

The Hechinger Report

Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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Grandparents raising grandchildren under lockdown: When the protectors are the most vulnerable

The Hechinger Report

But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Critical Condition. The Students the Pandemic Hit Hardest.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, he’d get a few hours of tutoring a week. Since the inception of this country, the model of removing someone from society to teach them a lesson has not worked.” A tutor began coming to his home for a few hours a week, but Martinez says he learned very little. And then, just like that, he was cut off.

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