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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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The Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy has developed tools to analyze social studies curricula and is currently reviewing how much knowledge the Baltimore and Miami-Dade schools are helping children learn. who started kindergarten in 2011. Despite these issues, the research is worth watching.

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What’s school without grade levels?

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But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. School District. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner.

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OPINION: The need for more black school counselors, and four ways to get better information about HBCUs

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For much of American history, it was against the law to teach blacks how to read and write. They do so because they seek a safe space in which they can receive academic support and cultural affirmation. He spent six years teaching in charter schools in Camden, New Jersey. HBCUs were never a “choice.”

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

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Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. history and its legacy today.” I want them to know that African-American history included progress, triumph and victory, as well as struggle.”.

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

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Schools rely on ridiculous marketing ploys, advertising “themes” and practices designed to draw students. For example, a private or charter school might advertise its behavioral practices. “The handshake represents the quintessential spirit of [our school],” one might read on a school’s website.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. But this is bigger than winning a school board.”

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

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With respect to Native students, Trump as president released a “Putting America’s First Peoples First” brief outlining his promises to Indian Country, including access to college scholarships for Native American students, creating new tribally operated charter schools and improving the beleaguered agency that oversees K-12 education on reservations.

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